several observations have addressed high rates of occupational burnout among personnel of emergency medical services (emss) centers.  occupational burnout influences ems personnel's well-being and quality of life. the main objective of this study was to assess burnout and its determinants among iranian ems personnel. this study was carried out at all ems centers in two provinces of kermanshah a...

background: nurses’ clinical competency plays an important role in the care of preterm infants. on the other hand, burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing the nurses’ efficiency. with regard to the importance of the role of nurses, and the vulnerability of the infants, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ burnout and clinical competency ...

BACKGROUND Workers in social service professions are the first candidates for job burnout. The researchers believe this is due to daily exposure to stressful situations and lack of positive conditions in the workplace. It seems that psychological empowerment of staff can affect their job burnout. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and job burnout ...

background: burnout, a phenomenon that is of interest for both individuals and organizations, is characterized by decreasing energy, power and resources in the presence of excessive demands. nurses are more prone to develop burnout due to both the emotional nature of their jobs as well as patients' demand. the present study was aimed to assess burnout among nurses working in the iranian ho...

abstract   background: academic burnout is the state of negative emotions and low motivation in one’s education. understanding the status of academic burnout is the primary step to make proper decisions. the present study, therefore, was conducted to investigate comparative degrees of academic burnout among medical students in their first five semesters of medical education at shahid beheshti u...

Think for a moment of a life without play. Dr. Stuart Brown, the President of the National Institute for Play, argued that the opposite of play is depression, stating that play is vital to our survival. Creating conversation about the prevalence and challenges of burnout and compassion fatigue among nurses, while discussing the positive effects of hoop dancing as a form of body play for movemen...

the aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sport motivation and athletic burnout in male soccer players participating in the 12th universiade in iran. the research method was descriptive/correlational method. 160 players who were members of soccer teams of universities completed these 2 questionnaires: 1- sport motivation scale (sms) by pelletier et al. (1995) with 24 items ...

nursing is considered as a high level of risk profession and burnout. past research on nurses has identified a significant negative relation of nurses’ job burnout with their hardiness and emotional intelligence. the present research aimed to explore the job burnouts among nurses, and to examine the relationship between nurses’ burnout with predictor variables such as emotional intelligence, sp...

Can parents burn out? The aim of this research was to examine the construct validity of the concept of parental burnout and to provide researchers which an instrument to measure it. We conducted two successive questionnaire-based online studies, the first with a community-sample of 379 parents using principal component analyses and the second with a community- sample of 1,723 parents using both...

background: evidence shows that in iran alcohol abuse rate may be of concern, especially among the youth. the mental and social health and addiction department of the ministry of health and medical education has designed a plan to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate the patients abusing alcohol in a time period of 2011‑2015. methods: in a 6‑month period, three guiding committees of experts in the ...