ORIGINAL RESEARCH Predictors of healthcare worker burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic Amy V Ferry PhD, 1* Ryan Wereski, MD, 1* Fiona E Strachan PhD, 1 Nicholas L Mills MD PhD 1,2 1 BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 2 Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom *Contributed equally Running title: Staff burnout during COVID-19 Address for correspondence: Dr Amy Ferry BHF/University Centre for Cardiovascular Science The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH16 4SA United Kingdom Telephone: 0044 131 242 6515 Fax: 0044 131 242 6379 E-mail: amy.ferry@ed.ac.uk Abstract: 297 Word Count: 3,083 Table and Figures: 3 References: 30 . CC-BY 4.0 International license It is made available under a perpetuity. is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in (which was not certified by peer review) preprint The copyright holder for this this version posted September 1, 2020. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.26.20182378 doi: medRxiv preprint NOTE: This preprint reports new research that has not been certified by peer review and should not be used to guide clinical practice.