BACKGROUND In the healthcare sector, we often come across the burnout syndrome. It is an occupational syndrome which causes, physical and emotional exhaustion. More information is needed on the dangers of burnout and how often it occurs in healthcare. The purpose of this study was to investigate burnout and factors associated with the syndrome among nurses working with people that are mentally ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue and burnout are two concepts often linked in the literature. However, regardless of their commonalities they should be approached as distinct concepts. The current and ever-growing reforms regarding the delivery of nursing care in Cyprus, stress for the development of ways to prevent burnout and effectively manage fatigue that can result from working in stressful clinical env...

BACKGROUND Stress is known to activate or exacerbate dermatoses, but the relationships between chronic stress, job-related stress and sickness absence among occupational hand eczema (OHE) patients are inadequately understood. AIMS To see whether chronic stress or burnout symptoms were associated with cumulative sickness absence in patients with OHE and to determine which factors predicted sic...

Madsen et al. (2015) examined the prospective association between work-related burnout and antidepressant treatment in human service workers. The authors defined work-related burnout based on exhaustion symptoms assessed in the occupational context. They concluded that work-related burnout is an important risk factor for antidepressant treatment. While we read the authors' article with interest...

OBJECTIVE Job and workplace characteristics, particularly among mental health workers, have been identified as "stressors". In this study, the objective was to assess the relationship between work performance and job burnout amongst staff at a psychiatric hospital. METHOD The respondents comprised 100 mental health professionals from Raazy Psychiatric Center, Tehran, Iran; including nurses, c...

BACKGROUND The study was aimed at verifying the predictive power of perfectionism for professional burnout among nurses exposed to distress resulting from work in an operating suite and testing whether this effect exists after controlling for selected demographic and job characteristics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group consisted of 100 nurses (93 women; mean age: 38.67 years). The majori...

Professionals who care for long-term and seriously ill patients frequently experience distressing emotional situations and profound suffering. These emotions can include the need to ‘rescue’ patients, a sense of failure and frustration when the illness progresses, feelings of powerlessness against the illness and its associated losses, grief, fear of becoming ill oneself and a desire to remain ...

introduction and purpose: the potential of resilience is regarded as a determiner for preventing and decreasing burnout resulted form occupational stresses.among the occupations, nursing is the most stressful ones .the optimistic psychology view tries to increase the capability of a person instead of solving the problem and this is the main idea behind resilience. this study has investigated th...

In Europe, the Council Directive 89/391 for improvement of workers' safety and health has emphasized the importance of addressing all occupational risk factors, and hence also psychosocial and organizational risk factors. Nevertheless, the construct of "work-related stress" elaborated from EU-OSHA is not totally corresponding with the "psychosocial" risk, that is a broader category of risk, com...