Aims: Currently, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 has imposed a wide range of stressors that can negatively affect nurses and other health care workers. This study aimed to investigate the severity of burnout among nurses working in COVID-19 wards in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Kashan in 2020. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2020 on 372 nurses worki...

BACKGROUND Teachers are at high risk of stress-related disorders. This study aimed to examine the occurrence of burnout in a sample of Swedish school-teachers, to test a combined measure of three burnout dimensions on the individual level, to characterize associations between burnout and factors encountered during work and leisure time, and to explore any differences between the genders. METH...

Burnout and impairment among professional counselors are serious concerns. Additionally, counselors’ work environments may influence their levels of wellness and burnout. This phenomenological study included the perspectives of 10 professional counselors who responded to questions about how their work environments influence their sense of wellness. Five themes emerged: (a) agency resources, (b)...

AIM To investigate predictors of occupational burnout, such as emotion work, among health care workers and compare the frequencies of burnout and emotion work in nurses and physicians. METHOD A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2007 and 2008 among 80 physicians and 76 nurses working in a variety of health care settings in Hungary. The survey contained sociodemographic questions and work...

AIMS In occupational settings, burnout is a common response to chronic exposure stressors and has been frequently documented in formal caregivers (i.e. paid psychiatric staff). However, the literature is limited on reports of burnout among informal caregivers and particularly within early psychosis groups. The current study sought to investigate reports of burnout in carers of young adults trea...

Vicarious trauma, traumatic stress, and burnout were investigated among three separate groups of mental health professionals working primarily with three different client populations (sexual violence, cancer, and general practice). Participants (N = 221) completed the Traumatic Stress Institute Belief Scale Revision M (TSI), the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Impact of Events Scale (I...

Burnout is a pathological syndrome in which emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DEP), and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (PA) develop in response to prolonged occupational stress. Those working in the physiotherapy profession appear to be at risk for professional burnout brought on by the specific character of the medical professions, involving continuous contact with pati...

The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-accepted questionnaire designed to assess an individual’s work ability. However, most research with WAI has focused on occupational populations with physical demands at work. The purpose of this study is to explore the value of WAI as screening instrument among professionals in a Dutch university. Based on database data about absenteeism, questionnaire dat...

Facing fierce competition, complicated interpersonal relationship, and intense social environment in modern society, we are living in a world of tension [1]. Especially for the occupational population, confronting frequent innovation on technology and knowledge and higher requirement on vocational skills, they are under growing occupational stress, which is not only the leading cause of occupat...