BACKGROUND Although diverse definitions have been construed for burnout syndrome, most authors consider it to be a single phenomenon, the result of chronic work-related stress. However, in order to enable specific intervention strategies to be adopted, it is first necessary to establish different profiles for the syndrome. In this respect, have been proposed three burnout types ("frenetic", "un...

Previous studies on burnout and vicarious traumatization are reviewed and summarized with a list of signs and symptoms. From the author’s own observations two histories of caregivers working with torture survivors are described which exemplify the risk, implications and consequences of secondary trauma. Contributing factors in the social and political framework in which caregivers operate are a...

this article reports the results of an epidemiological study of burnout syndrome among counselors and psychotherapists. subjects were 110 (52 female and 58 male) counselors and psychotherapists with m.s. and ph.d. degrees working in tehran. one of the aims of this research was to study the effects of demographic characteristics (such as age, sex, marital status, level of education) type of pers...

the main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between organizational structure and burnout among high school teachers. research method was descriptive correlational. to collect data, two questionnaires were used: organizational structure with reliability coefficient of 93 % and job burnout with reliability coefficient of 95 %. the population consisted of all high school teache...

background: burnout is currently a major concern among physicians due to their high level of stress at work. there are several reports on various levels of burnout in residency programs due to several predisposing factors. the aim of this systematic review was to estimate a more precise prevalence of burnout among residents of obstetrics and gynecology. methods: pubmed, science direct and scopu...

maslach and jackson first introduced the concept of ‘burnout’- a state of physical and emotional exhaus- tion emerging from work conditions- in 1980. the importance of investigations of burn out lies in the fact that it is directly related to the quality of teaching. there are three basic criteria set to predict, evaluate, and prevent burnout: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and person...

ABSTRACT Burnout Syndrome is a disorder resulting from chronic stress at work. It affects workers different areas, including teachers. This systematic review study with the objective of verifying association between psychosocial factors work (PFW) and burnout in elementary education Articles PubMed, Scielo Capes Journals databases, published 2014 2018, that used Maslach Inventory evaluation wer...

background and objectives:job burnout is a major source of healthcare human resources inefficiency with severe negative impact on patient care, physical-psychological health of staff, and healthcare costs. psychological empowerment is a relatively new concept showing promise in boosting different aspect of human resources management. in this study, we pursued the question of whether psychologic...