Work factors and psychological distress in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study
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Work factors and psychological distress in nurses' aides: a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND Nurses' aides (assistant nurses), the main providers of practical patient care in many countries, are doing both emotional and heavy physical work, and are exposed to frequent social encounters in their job. There is scarce knowledge, though, of how working conditions are related to psychological distress in this occupational group. The aim of this study was to identify work factors ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-290