In the “Group homes”, one care giver is assigned to three patients placed therein, there are concerns about physical and mental health, such as stress or burnout of care givers due to overwork. This study is intended to elucidate actual conditions of mental health and burnout among care givers of dementia patients. Subjects were 107 care givers working in 12 group homes in the northern Kyushu. ...

The current study investigates the relationship between HPA-axis functioning and burnout symptoms by employing an electronic symptom diary. This diary method circumvents the retrospection bias induced by symptom questionnaires and allows to study relationships within-in addition to between-subjects. Forty two clinically burned-out participants completed the exhaustion subscale of the Maslach bu...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome among resident physicians of various specialties and to evaluate associated factors. Method: The Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire and a sociodemographic questionnaire were used to evaluate factors associated with the syndrome. Burnout was defined as the association of high emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low profess...

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...

INTRODUCTION The educational environment (EE) is related to satisfaction and achievement. A high prevalence of professional burnout (BO) syndrome has been reported in the residency. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between EE and the presence of burnout in residency programs at a university hospital. POPULATION AND METHODS Residents from five programs at Hospital It...

Burnout is construed as a phenomenon occurring among professionals who work with people , and as a result raises serious problems for human service workers, especially hospital nurses. Nurses’ burnout, known to be related to age and working years, can have an adverse impact on nurses’ development and the quality of care in medical institutes . In the Maslach Burnout Inventory—General Survey (MB...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether disaster-related variables, in addition to known work-related risk factors, influence burnout and its subscales (exhaustion, cynicism, and lack of professional efficacy) among public servants who experienced a major disaster. METHODS Cross-sectional studies were conducted among public servants of Miyagi prefecture at 2 and 16 months after the Great East Japan Ear...

Whether burnout and depression cover the same psychopathology remains to be elucidated. To date, subtypes of depression have been overlooked in research on the burnout–depression overlap. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of depressive disorders in workers with burnout while examining the overlap of burnout with the atypical subtype of depression. The present study included 5,575 schooltea...

PURPOSE Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job. The purpose of our cross-sectional study was to estimate the burnout rates among medical residents in the largest Greek hospital in 2012 and identify factors associated with it, based on the job demands-resources model (JD-R). METHOD Job demands were examined via a 17-item questionnaire assess...