conclusions the results of this study indicates that the single item burnout measure has potential as a brief, sensitive screening measure of burnout due to its brevity, ease of administration and sound psychometric properties and needs to be validated further in larger studies and with other professional groups. results sib scores were highly and positively correlated with mbi-ee scores (r = 0...

While recent publications indicate that employees in human service professions have higher risk of sickness absence and mental ill-health, little is known about the association with other health outcomes and possible mechanisms behind the differential risk. This study investigates differences in burnout, self-rated health and sickness absence between those in human service professions and other...

background: non-communicable diseases (ncds) and psychological hazards are increasingly observed in industries, necessitating the need to strengthen industrial health systems to control the same. district level data on level of functioning of industrial health systems and services with special focus on systems available for mental health care is lacking in india. this information is vital to pl...

BACKGROUND Providing health services is described as an important moral measure, since its major aim is to ensure the welfare of the people who need treatment and care. Moral sensitivity is the ability to identify the existing moral problem and understand the moral consequences of the decisions made on the patient's part. Physicians are always exposed to moral distress due to various circumstan...

UNLABELLED Psychosocial work characteristics including high demands, lack of control and poor social support have consistently been linked to poor health as has poor general mental ability (GMA). However, less is known about the relationships between stable individual factors such as GMA, psychosocial work characteristics and health. OBJECTIVE The present study investigated how childhood ment...

Abstract Background Stress and burnout commonly threaten the mental health of medical students in Malaysia elsewhere. This study aimed to explore interrelations psychological distress, emotional intelligence, personality traits, academic stress, among students. Methods A cross-sectional was conducted with 241 Validated questionnaires were administered measure burnout, respectively. structural e...

M any writers have made us aware of the critical decline in occupational therapy prac­ titioners specializing in mental health practice (Cottrell, 1990; Friedland & Renwick, 1993). Before World War II, the majoriry of occupational therapists and therapy assistants practiced in men­ tal health, but by 1990, the percentage decreased to 11.8% (American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTAJ, 1991...