Katsavouni et al. [1] examined burnout, post-traumatic stress disorder and work-related injuries in Greek firefighters. The authors found that 20% of the firefighters in their sample met criteria for burnout as treated as a nosological entity. To receive a diagnosis of burnout, scores on the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inv...

BACKGROUND Burnout appears to be common among critical care providers. It is characterized by three components: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment. Moral distress is the inability of a moral agent to act according to his or her core values and perceived obligations due to internal and external constraints. We aimed to estimate the correlation between moral distr...

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of burnout and explore its professional and psychosocial predictors among Swiss primary care practitioners. METHODS A cross-sectional postal survey was conducted to measure burnout, work-related stressors, professional and psychosocial characteristics among a representative sample of primary care practitioners. Answers to the Maslach burnout inventory were ...

OBJECTIVES Recently in Poland as a result of the high rate of aging population and high rates of morbidity, a growing demand for the physiotherapist profession is observed. The results of this study can be used to formulate principles for better organization of physiotherapist's workplace in order to prevent occurrence of burnout. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of gender on ...

We demonstrate selective burnout of individual carbon nanotubes that are electronically resonant with the incident laser energy. Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy are used to quantify the burnout of nanotubes. The threshold laser power for rapid burnout is found to occur between 0.4 and 0.9 W/lm. At lower laser powers of 80 mW/lm, the burnout depends linearly on time, over tens of ...

Burnout aff ects more than half of practising physicians and is on the rise. When burnout was seen as a crisis of wellbeing—aff ecting physicians’ personal lives and work satisfaction—it garnered little public sympathy and could be dismissed as the whining of a privileged class. Now that evidence suggests that burnout negatively aff ects physicians’ eff ectiveness and availability to patients, ...

The aim of the current study is to identify the relation between the burnout syndrome, locus of control, job satisfaction and age. To establish the relationships, 113 Romanian high school teachers completed a three partquestionnaire which comprised: Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, Job Satisfaction Survey, Work Locus of Control Scale, and factual data. Burnout is significantly associated with exter...

Job burnout has serious dysfunctional ramifications, meaning substantial costs for organizations and individuals. Recent research has shown that the information technology (IT) worker’s is prone to creating work exhaustion, and that this work exhaustion is a trigger for depersonalization and diminishing achievement – the three conceptual components of job burnout. Prior research has found evide...

Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy. The past 25 years of research has established the complexity of the construct, and places the individual stress experience within a larger organizational context of people's relation to their work. Recently, the work on burn...

The aim of this research was to determine the nature of the relationship between burnout and salutogenic functioning, specifically sense of coherence, hardiness and learned resourcefulness. The measurement was done with the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Antonovsky, Kobasa and Rosenbaum questionnaires, administered on a sample of 105 registered general nurses. Correlations, exploratory and c...