BACKGROUND Professional burnout results from prolonged exposure to chronic, job-related stressors. According to Christina Maslach, professional burnout is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment. Literature includes a number of reports on burnout syndrome within health service, but hardly ever do they make any references to physiotherapists. The...

BACKGROUND Patients with depersonalization disorder (DPD) typically complain about emotional detachment. Previous studies found reduced autonomic responsiveness to emotional stimuli for DPD patients as compared to patients with anxiety disorders. We aimed to investigate autonomic responsiveness to emotional auditory stimuli of DPD patients as compared to patient controls. Furthermore, we examin...

BACKGORUND This study analyzed the presence of DP symptoms in a sample of both psychiatric patients and normal subjects, addressing the issue of DP symptoms in adolescence. METHODS A total of 267 subjects (149 patients and 118 healthy controls) aged between 14 and 65 years, were assessed by means of CDS, the SCID-I and the K-SADS. The sample was then divided into two subsamples with a cut-off...

Depersonalization is characterised by a profound disruption of self-awareness mainly characterised by feelings of disembodiment and subjective emotional numbing. It has been proposed that depersonalization is caused by a fronto-limbic (particularly anterior insula) suppressive mechanism--presumably mediated via attention--which manifests subjectively as emotional numbing, and disables the proce...

BackgroundNearly 40% of US physicians experience occupational burnout. The actual prevalence rate burnout among dentists remains unknown. authors examined a simplified 2-item screening tool based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to identify possible dentists.MethodsData were obtained from survey pediatric (n = 540) in United States. full MBI items data set used determine and categorize em...

WE HAVE recently reported that marihuana extract, calibrated for content of (—)Al-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), significantly impaired the serial coordination of cognitive operations during a task that required sequential adjustments in reaching a goal.' Our term for this mental incoordination is temporal disintegration. From a cognitive standpoint, temporal disintegration means that the individu...

background & aim: nurse job-related burnout is a global issue; however, it remains unclear how coping strategies over a maintained period of time may influence nursing burnout. the aim of this study was to evaluation the factors associated with burnout of nurses working at a state hospital. methods & materials : this cross-sectional study was carried out with 446 nurses working at state hospita...