This cross-sectional, analytical and correlational study investigated the existence of Burnout based on a sample of 149 nurses of a university tertiary hospital from October to December 2008 and correlate Burnout with stressors in the hospital work environment. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Nurses' Stress Inventory and a questionnaire to characterize the subjects were applied. The results ...

OBJECTIVE to identify relationships between moral distress and Burnout in the professional performance from the perceptions of the experiences of nursing workers. METHODS this is a survey type study with 375 nursing workers working in three different hospitals of southern Rio Grande do Sul, with the application of adaptations of the Moral Distress Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, vali...

This study investigated occupational stress and burnout among senior secondary school teachers in Sokoto metropolis their coping strategies. The population of the consisted all public Teachers metropolis, totaling (1, 216). One hundred ninety-six (196) respondents were selected based on Krejcie Morgan table determining sampling size from eight (8) schools. Descriptive design was used for study....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of burnout syndrome among nursing workers in intensive care units and establish associations with psychosocial factors. METHODS This descriptive study evaluated 130 professionals, including nurses, nursing technicians, and nursing assistants, who performed their activities in intensive care and coronary care units in 2 large hospitals in the city of Rio de...

BACKGROUND/AIM So far, studies of stress have shown that physicians are at a high risk of sickness from psychic and somatic disorders related to professional stress, that can lead to important disturbance of personal, familiar and professional functionating. The aim of this study was to investigate the doctors exposition level to professional stress, to compare stress level in general practitio...

The objectives of this study are to assess the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) for academic staff in South African higher education institutions and to investigate differences between the burnout levels of different demographic groups. A survey design was used, with stratified random samples (N = 595) taken of academics in s...

The study investigated the relationship between teacher occupational stress and burnout. The sample size of 400 private school teachers of Himachal Pradesh was taken in to consideration which included both primary and secondary school teachers. The test of Teacher stress Survey by Malik, 1993 and Maslach Burnout inventory by Maslach & Jackson, 1981 was used to assess the teacher stress and burn...