Background Burnout in healthcare workers is deleterious for patients as well as for the healthcare workers themselves, with consequences ranging from less job satisfaction to increased mortality rates. Burnout in intensivists is reportedly high with 50% of intensivists having a burnout in some series. The present study was done to estimate incidence and prevalence of burnout in intensivists in ...

BACKGROUND/AIM The general problems of persons with malignant diseases (stages of asthenia, chronic fatigue and exhaustion, followed by depression and anxiety) lead to a decrease in functional abilities and a declining quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the level of difficulty, the type of required assistance and the level of satisfaction that derives from maintaining life ...

BACKGROUND Group living homes are a fast-growing form of nursing home care for older people with dementia. This study seeks to determine the differences in job characteristics of nursing staff in group living homes and their influence on well-being. METHODS We examined the Job Demand Control Support (JDCS) model in relation to 183 professional caregivers in group living homes and 197 professi...

PURPOSE Little is known about students who seriously consider dropping out of medical school. The authors assessed the severity of thoughts of dropping out and explored the relationship of such thoughts with burnout and other indicators of distress. METHOD The authors surveyed medical students attending five medical schools in 2006 and 2007 (prospective cohort) and included two additional med...

We conducted this study to determine the perceived value of certification in perioperative nursing. Following development and pilot-testing, we mailed the 18-item Likert-type instrument, the Perceived Value of Certification Tool (PVCT), to a sample of 2750 perioperative nurses who had earned the CNOR or CRNFA credential or both. A total of 1398 surveys were returned (50.8% response rate). Facto...

Background: A majority of parents children with chronic illness encounter physical conditions, as well some degrees burnout, anxiety, and depression. This study examined the prevalence burnout in primary caregivers conditions its related factors. Methods: descriptive cross-sectional was conducted on 385 family who were selected by convenience sampling method from 4 healthcare centers Kashan Isf...

The design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems must be centered on users’ activity in order to bring computing systems closer to people. Adopting an activity-centered approach to the design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems leads us to seek to understand: a) how humans naturally accomplish an activity; and b) how computing artifacts from both the environmental and personal...

BACKGROUND Burnout has been implicated as one of the reasons for key healthcare personnel, such as nurses, leaving their profession, resulting in insufficient staff to attend to patients. OBJECTIVE We investigated the predictors of three dimensions of burnout, namely emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment, among nurses in South Africa attending to patients living ...

AIM The aim of the study was to examine the level of job-related burnout and the level of job satisfaction among residents of pediatrics. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 102 residents of pediatrics who were trained in two Ministry of Health teaching and research hospitals and in two university hospitals in Izmir were included in the study. Demographic data (age, sex), lifestyle (living with p...