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Article Evaluation (Occupational burnout)

Evaluating Content

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
• The sentence describing Freud’s berger’s paper was distracting because it seems out of context considering it is not mentioned again throughout the article. Also, the last sentence in the introduction is just thrown in and assumes the reader knows Maslach’s work. It’s not until the “Diagnosis” section that Maslach is properly introduced. Lastly, I think the fact burn-out is included as an ICD-10 should have been further elaborated on.
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
• Maslach’s work is cited and referred to within the text several times however her most recent piece is from 2001 which is out-dated considering it was 18 years ago. It would be better if there was more studies researched and described to validate the treatment and prevention methods.
• What else could be improved?
• I would also improve the organization of the article. There is little flow from one section to another. Likewise, I would like to have seen treatment and prevention presented as separate sections instead of being grouped together.

Evaluating Tone

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
• The diagnosis portion of the article heavily links burn-out to depression and does little to differentiate between the two since an individual suffering from burn-out is not necessarily depressed. Most of the sources in this section simply seek to validate how the two can be indistinguishable.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
• As previously stated, the viewpoint seeking to prove that burn-out is almost synonymous to depression is over-represented while the impact of environmental factors when contributing to burn-out is underrepresented.

Evaluating Sources

• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
• The citations links work. There is little support for the claim that the true way to prevent burn-out is at the organizational level.
• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
• The article references a source for each fact but relies heavily upon the works of Maslach and Bianchi seeing as the two authors make up nearly half of the references. Relying so much on the work of two individuals predisposes the article to include the biases of these authors. However, the bias is never noted within the wiki piece itself.

Checking the Talk Page

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
• There are a couple conversations discussing how the information provided in the article comes primarily from a psychological background and how there is still a need for it to be more thorough overall.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
• It is rated as a start-class for WikiProjects Occupational Safety and Health, Occupations, Physiology, and Psychology. This low rating means that the article is quite incomplete and does not provide substantial source support. This kind of article is in its beginning phases and still needs to be further developed and revised.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
• We have not mentioned this topic in class; however, other courses that have discussed burn-out often take into consideration all the factors that might influences it and address those variables as preventative measures to be taken. Wikipedia only mentioned a few of these and did very little research to support the claims it made for prevention of burn-out.

~~~~Aapro24

Choosing a topic - New Article - Physician Burnout

Since the only relevant article I found in relation to my literary review covered occupational burnout as a whole as opposed to physician burnout, I'd like to create an article on Physician Burnout independently since I think there is so much to cover that doesn't exist on Wikipedia yet.