OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of a worksite social and physical environment intervention on need for recovery (i.e., early symptoms of work-related mental and physical fatigue), physical activity and relaxation. Also, the effectiveness of the separate interventions was investigated. METHODS In this 2 × 2 factorial design study, 412 office employees from a financial service provid...

65 Burnout was first described as a set of symptoms of exhaustion in professionals working in mental care and education as, for example, nurses, doctors and teachers (Freudenberger, 1974). This definition was later broadened by including physical as well as mental exhaustion observed in mental care as well as other occupations (e.g. clerical, computer technology, military, police persons, manag...

Burnout, the significant mental and physical exhaustion brought on by a stressful work environment, has become a growing problem in the medical world. With burnout rates among physicians exceeding 40 percent, physicians need tools to combat the personal and professional dysfunction that hurts themselves, their loved ones, their coworkers, and their patients. Physicians who are overextended and ...

abstract background: thalassemia major is the most common hereditary anemia in iran. thalassemia major patients require lifelong care and suffer much pain during self-care. knowledge of the nature, meaning, and impact of suffering from the perspective of patients is needed to determine which interventions are helpful. this study was designed to understand the experience of suffering in patients...

PURPOSE Fatigue is a devastating state of body and mind associated with distress at the end of life. We report the results of the third in a series of papers outlining a novel approach we have developed for understanding the meaning of fatigue by exploring how this meaning is shaped by beliefs and values. The aims of the study were to examine the perception and experiences of fatigue held by pa...

Challenges when many people moved their jobs from the office to home because of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have put stress on employees’ daily routine and professional lives. This article investigated experience individuals working not at disclosed consequences occupational such as mental physical exhaustion, social deprivation, decreased work commitment, cynicism, burnout. The preliminary ...