Background and Objective: Studies show that leaving the hospital with personal consent is increasing. This phenomenon has unpleasant and sometimes irreversible consequences. This study aims to investigate the causes and consequences of leaving the hospital with the personal consent of patients referred to the emergency department of hospitals affiliated with Qom University of Medical Sciences i...

BACKGROUND Nursing is considered as a risk profession with high levels of stress and burnout, and these levels are probably increasing. OBJECTIVES A model of prediction of burnout in nursing that includes socio-demographic variables, job stressors, and personal vulnerability, or resistance, is proposed. DESIGN A cross-sectional correlational design was used. A sample of 473 nurses and stude...

This study investigated teachers’ conceptions of intelligence (TCoI) and ambiguity tolerance in the burnout levels of 202 Iranian EFL teachers. To this end, 3 inventories were utilized: Language Teachers’ Conceptions of Intelligence Scale (LTCI-S), Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale-II (MSTAT-II), and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Pearson multiple correlation coefficients and ...

Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses is highly demanding for EAP teachers as they are faced with diverse pedagogical and administrative challenges in such courses. This study addressed the level of burnout among EAP teachers and variations in relation to their demographic and organizational characteristics. To this aim, a demographic questionnaire along with the Persian version ...

Background Burnout in healthcare workers is deleterious for patients as well as for the healthcare workers themselves, with consequences ranging from less job satisfaction to increased mortality rates. Burnout in intensivists is reportedly high with 50% of intensivists having a burnout in some series. The present study was done to estimate incidence and prevalence of burnout in intensivists in ...

BACKGROUND/AIM The general problems of persons with malignant diseases (stages of asthenia, chronic fatigue and exhaustion, followed by depression and anxiety) lead to a decrease in functional abilities and a declining quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the level of difficulty, the type of required assistance and the level of satisfaction that derives from maintaining life ...

The importance of physical activity (PA) in people’s health is well known. Today, sedentary lifestyles constitute a serious risk to global health. likelihood that an individual will engage PA depends largely on the perceived benefits and barriers being physically active. industry continues create mechanisms improve practice by minimizing barriers. Thus, whole-body electrostimulation training (W...

This study was an examination of the longitudinal relationship between burnout and depressive symptoms among Japanese athletes at three time periods. The participants were 143 university (89 males, 54 females, mean age = 19.83 years, SD 1.03 years) who completed Burnout Scale for University Athletes (BOSA) Kessler Psychological Distress (K-10) results indicated that number with moderate to seve...