background: professional burnout is defined as a state of depletion and loss of motivation accompanied by different mental and physical symptoms. objective: to assess personal losses suffered by correctional officers due to burnout. methods: this cross-sectional study conducted between june and december 2012 included 201 correctional officers in two bulgarian prisons. the mean age of the whole ...

BACKGROUND Female doctors in Hungary have worse indicators of physical and mental health compared with other professional women. We aimed to cast light on possible indicators of mental health, workload, and burnout of female physicians. METHODS Two time-points (T) were compared, in 2003 (T1 n = 408) and 2013 (T2 n = 2414), based on two nationally representative surveys of female doctors, and ...

BACKGROUND Burnout has important clinical and professional implications among health care workers, with high levels of burnout documented in oncology staff. The aim of this study was to ascertain how well a brief single-item measure could be used to screen for burnout in the Australian oncology workforce. METHODS During 2007, 1322 members of the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia were ...

Objectives To assess levels of burnout in medical students, and to explore the influence of extracurricular activities on burnout at a medical school in Saudi Arabia. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted with first to fourth year medical students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Socio-demographic, burnout level (the Masla...

BACKGROUND Burnout has been a major concern in the field of occupational health. However, there is a paucity of research exploring the factors related to burnout among Chinese doctors. Investigation of these factors is important to improve the health of doctors and the quality of healthcare services in China. METHODS The study population consisted of 1,618 registered hospital doctors from Lia...

introduction: burnout is a syndrome containing three dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduction of personal accomplishment. nurses are exposed to professional burnout (pb) due to their exposure to physical, mental, and emotional stressors, which can lead to numerous complications in their personal, social, and organizational life. this study aimed to define the prevale...

Objective: To evaluate burnout syndrome in its three aspects, jointly as well as independently, in physiotherapists from the Extremadura region (Spain). Method: Analytic descriptive epidemiological transversal trial in primary care and institutional practice, with physiotherapists practicing in Extremadura who met the inclusion criteria, after having signed an informed consent form. Emotional...

AIMS To investigate the role of clinician burnout, demographic, and organizational characteristics in predicting subjective and objective indicators of patient safety. BACKGROUND Maintaining clinician health and ensuring safe patient care are important goals for hospitals. While these goals are not independent from each other, the interplay between clinician psychological health, demographic ...

The objectives of this study were to validate the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS) for a customer-services environment, and to assess differences in the burnout levels among various demographic groups. A cross-sectional survey design was used. A sample (n = 228) was taken of customer-services personnel working for medical schemes. The MBI-GS and a biographical questionnaire wer...