CenExel Highlights High Level of Psychometric Rater Stress and Burnout
These findings suggests a need for improved assessment platforms, enhanced rater training by vendors, and adequate staffing and resourcing at site level.
- These findings suggests a need for improved assessment platforms, enhanced rater training by vendors, and adequate staffing and resourcing at site level.
- The online survey, fielded in April and May 2023, found that almost 80% of psychometric raters experience some degree of burnout, with 27% reporting at least a moderate current burnout level.
- The poster – entitled, “Exploring Non-US Rater Work Stress and Burnout: How Can We Do Better to Preserve Our Primary Endpoint Evaluators?” – was presented by Elan Cohen, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at CenExel HRI.
- “Sponsors should keep in mind the potential impacts of these high levels of rater stress and burnout when planning psychiatric and neurological trials,” said Stuart Goldblatt, Chief Executive Officer of CenExel.