OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of burnout to the association between job strain and depression. METHODS A representative sample of 3270 Finnish employees aged 30 to 64 years responded to the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey and the Beck Depression Inventory and participated in the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. RESULTS High s...

background & aim: nurse job-related burnout is a global issue; however, it remains unclear how coping strategies over a maintained period of time may influence nursing burnout. the aim of this study was to evaluation the factors associated with burnout of nurses working at a state hospital. methods & materials : this cross-sectional study was carried out with 446 nurses working at state hospita...

Can parents burn out? The aim of this research was to examine the construct validity of the concept of parental burnout and to provide researchers which an instrument to measure it. We conducted two successive questionnaire-based online studies, the first with a community-sample of 379 parents using principal component analyses and the second with a community- sample of 1,723 parents using both...

BACKGROUND Internship and residency are difficult times with novice practitioners facing new challenges and stressors. Junior doctors may experience burnout, a syndrome that encompasses three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment. While there is some existing literature on the prevalence of burnout in junior doctors, there are few studies on int...

This descriptive study was developed with sixteen Family Health Strategy teams from Santa Maria (Rio Grande do Sul), with the objective to identify works with the Burnout syndrome and the variables associated with this disorder. The sample consisted of 86 workers, representing 86.3% of professionals (physicians, nurses, nursing technicians, dentists and dental office assistants) and 30.2% of co...

Little is known about professional burnout among health-care workers in Egypt. The current study aimed to reveal the extent of burnout among physicians and nursing staff working in the emergency hospital of Tanta University and to identify some of its determinants. A cross-sectional study was carried out on all physicians (n = 266) and a systematic random sample of nurses (n = 284). Burnout was...

Stress-related affective disorders have been identified as a core health problem of the twenty-first century. In the endeavor to identify vulnerability factors, personality has been discussed as a major factor explaining and predicting disorders like depression or burnout. An unsolved question is whether there are specific personality factors allowing differentiation of burnout from depression....

Burnout has been identified as a significant issue among those in instructional positions. The purpose of the present research was to identify and describe the status of burnout among higher education online instructors. The population for this study included responses of 76 online instructors employed by baccalaureate granting institutions within the United States. A demographic survey and the...

This study examined the effect of social support on burnout in nurses of People with AIDS (PWAs). A sample of 80 female registered nurses (RNs) completed the House and Wells Social Support Questionnaire, which measures supervisor, co-worker, friend/relative, and spouse/partner support, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which defines burnout in terms of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the theoretical dimensionality of burnout measurement (MBI). The objective of the study was to check the working hypothesis according to which the subscales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) such as "emotional exhaustion" and "cynicism" (depersonalization) were not correlated with that of "personal achievement" (professional effic...