ABSTRACT
The prevalence of burnout and depression among healthcare practitioners in Malaysia has never been studied during a pandemic prior to this study. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, this question has again been pushed into the forefront, due to concerns with maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of clinicians handling this pandemic. At the same time, there is also no data on the factors associated with psychological distress among Malaysian medical workers, which is not desirable when planning for preventative strategies in alleviating their psychological distress. To answer these questions, we set forth to capture a snapshot of the situation in Malaysia with regards to burnout and depression among frontline anaesthesiology clinicians working in Sungai Buloh Hospital, the national infectious disease centre of Malaysia and the hospital gazetted to be an exclusive COVID-19 hospital in Malaysia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)