Burnout and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis: A Methodological Comment

Authors

Renzo Bianchi, Université de NeuchâtelFollow
Irvin Sam Schonfeld, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow
Eric Laurent, Université de NeuchâtelFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

Because (a) burnout overlaps with depression and (b) depression has been associated with altered functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis changes in the activity of the HPT axis can be expected in burnout. Most probably, Guo et al.’s (2017) results are flawed by a severe form of the “healthy worker effect.”

Comments

This work was originally published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, available at 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.02.007.