Burnout and endoscopy-specific workload among gastroenterologists and gastroenterology fellows in Türkiye: A national cross-sectional survey
Yavuz Özden, Rasim Eren Cankurtaran, Çağlayan Keklikkıran, Çağdaş Erdoğan
Yavuz Özden, Department of Gastroenterology, Kayseri City Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Kayseri 38080, Türkiye
Rasim Eren Cankurtaran, Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara Bilkent City Hospital, Ankara 06800, Türkiye
Çağlayan Keklikkıran, Department of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize 53100, Türkiye
Çağdaş Erdoğan, Department of Gastroenterology, University of İstinye, İstanbul 34010, Türkiye
Author contributions: Özden Y contributed to conceptualization, study design, data curation, formal analysis, manuscript drafting, and project administration; Özden Y, Cankurtaran RE, and Erdoğan Ç contributed to methodology; Özden Y and Cankurtaran RE contributed to survey development; Özden Y and Erdoğan Ç contributed to interpretation of data; Cankurtaran RE and Keklikkıran Ç contributed to data collection, data interpretation, and critical revision of the manuscript; Keklikkıran Ç contributed to literature review; Erdoğan Ç contributed to supervision and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
AI contribution statement: During manuscript preparation, ChatGPT (OpenAI) was used only for English language editing and wording refinement. The tool was not used for data analysis, statistical interpretation, figure preparation, or generation of scientific conclusions. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript and take full responsibility for its content.
Institutional review board statement: The study protocol was approved by the Kayseri City Hospital Non-Interventional Clinical Research Ethics Committee (approval No. 2026/900; approval date: April 28 2026). The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Informed consent statement: All participants provided electronic informed consent before accessing the online questionnaire. Participation was voluntary and anonymous, and no personal identifiers were collected.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Data sharing statement: The anonymised dataset supporting the findings of this study is available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request and subject to institutional ethics committee approval. The dataset is not publicly available because the survey responses contain professional and organisational information that could potentially compromise participant anonymity.
Corresponding author: Yavuz Özden, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kayseri City Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Şeker District, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Boulevard No. 77 Kocasinan, Kayseri 38080, Türkiye.
yavuzozden@gmail.com
Received: June 26, 2026
Revised: July 9, 2026
Accepted: August 26, 2026
Published online: October 28, 2026
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