This descriptive study was developed with sixteen Family Health Strategy teams from Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul), with the objective to identify works with the Burnout syndrome and the variables associated with this disorder. The sample consisted of 86 workers, representing 86.3% of professionals (physicians, nurses, nursing technicians, dentists and dental office assistants) and 30.2% of co...

The purposes of this study were to investigate the potential predictors of personal burnout among staff working with people with intellectual disabilities and to investigate whether personal burnout is associated with health and work-related outcomes. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2011 in 30 residential facilities in northern Germany (N = 409, response rate 45%). The German standa...

The overall goal of this study was to examine the relationship between burnout and two parameters: job strains and coping styles. The subjects were 568 nurses from a university hospital in Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan. A packet of self-administered questionnaires was distributed to the nurses. Four hundred and forty nurses completed the questionnaires. The Japanese version of the Maslach Burnou...

The use of the virtual team is increasing among organizations seeking the efficiencies associated with overcoming barriers of time, place and distance. However, conflict is emerging as a significant barrier to team performance with studies suggesting that conflict may be unmanageable in distributed groups. This study explores the nature and influence of conflict using the responses of actual vi...

OBJECTIVE To describe a multidisciplinary program, given by an occupational therapist and a physiotherapist, for patients with stress-related disease in primary health care and to measure the effect of this program in terms of self-perceived health, degree of burnout, physical activity, symptoms, recreational activities, and psychological and physical well-being. METHOD Retrospective study. ...

Obtaining start-up funding for new product ideas in large corporations is inherently frustrating. We evaluated teams that were successful in obtaining start-up funds from large corporations to determine the importance of the executive champion and team commitment and conflict. We found that the funding level was strongly correlated (R=0.104; p=0.002) with higher levels (β=0.193; p=0.016) of cha...

burnout syndrome is a response to prolonged occupational stress. workload is one of the organizational risk factors of burnout. with regards to the topic, there are no data on administrative employees’ burnout and workload in iran. this study seeks to determine the levels of job burnout and their relationships with workload among administrative members of staff. two hundred and forty two admini...