To the Editor: We thank Beas and Dı́az-Pardav e for their continued interest in our article demonstrating high burnout among palliative care clinicians. Burnout is ultimately a complex, multifaceted syndrome characterized by varying degrees of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low sense of personal accomplishment. As the authors highlight, a variety of approaches have been used to ass...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the characteristics of the professional nursing practice environment and its relationship with burnout, perception of quality of care, job satisfaction and the intention to leave the job in the next 12 months. METHOD cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach to data. The sample was composed of 129 nurses working in adult Intensive Care Units from a region in the...

BACKGROUND Burnout among nurses not only threatens their own health, but also that of their patients. Exploring risk factors of nurse' burnout is important to improve nurses' health and to increase the quality of health care services. This study aims to explore the relationship between work-family conflict and burnout among Chinese female nurses and the mediating role of psychological capital i...

This study assessed the influence of burnout dimensions and sleep difficulties on the quality of life among preclinical-phase medical school students. Data were collected from 193 students through their completion of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey, the Mini-Sleep Questionnaire, the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, and the ...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the level of burnout and factors that contribute to burnout in hospital nurses in the People's Republic of China. BACKGROUND While burnout among hospital nurses has been widely researched in western countries, little research has investigated burnout among hospital nurses in China. METHOD A translated version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Se...

AIM To examine the role that work relationships have on two long-term care outcomes: job satisfaction and turnover intention. BACKGROUND It is easy to overlook the impact that human relations have in shaping work environments that are conducive to organizational effectiveness. Employee job satisfaction and retention are important organizational outcomes. METHODS Six hundred and seventy-five...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to assess both the direct and indirect effects (i.e., interacting with various job demands) of skill discretion on various psychological outcomes (i.e., emotional exhaustion, intention to leave, affective well-being, and job satisfaction). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected by a self-reported questionnaire in 3 hospitals in Italy. The sample c...

BACKGROUND Researchers define Emotional Labour (EL) as the effort associated with meeting the emotional requirements of the job, yet nobody has ever directly tested this effort. Building on classic stress and ego depletion theory, this study develops the Emotional Effort Scale (EEF). METHODS In Study 1, exploratory (N = 197) and confirmatory factor analysis (N = 182) were conducted with a Bri...

BACKGROUND Job stress and emotional exhaustion have been shown to have a negative impact on the helping professional. The development and causal relations of job stress and emotional exhaustion are rather unclear in the chiropractic profession. The objective of this study is to understand the main sources of occupational stress and emotional exhaustion among doctors of chiropractic. METHODS A...