Emotional exhaustion

About: Emotional exhaustion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 8194 publications have been published within this topic receiving 317269 citations.

Síndrome do esgotamento profissional entre trabalhadores da rede básica de saúde de município do interior paulista

Abstract: Braga, L. C. Burnout among primary health care workers from a city of Sao Paulo state. 112p. Ph.D Thesis, Post graduation Programme of Public Health, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho – UNESP,Botucatu, 2012 Studies show high prevalence of burnout among health professionals. Although few in number, investigations about the mental health of primary health care workers indicate the occurrence of workrelated psychological distress in this group. Considering what is known about the expansion of social and labor precariousness and its effects on workers’ mental health in the contemporary world and about the potential severity of the individual, institutional and social impacts of burnout, it is appropriate to conduct this study. It is a cross-sectional epidemiological study, which investigated the occurrence of burnout syndrome and its relationship to some aspects of the general working conditions among the primary health care workers from a city of Sao Paulo state. Data collection was performed using autoaplicable questionnaire, delivered and returned in the same day, containing 129 items, covering: sociodemographic information, opinions about work, Job Stress Scale, Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Responses were entered into two databases built with the programs Excel Office XP 2007and EPI-INFO. The results, analyzed using the STATA software 10, were submitted to univariate analysis for each one of the dimensions of burnout, identifying the explanatory variables that were associated with each dimension using the chi-square. Multivariate analysis was performed, with construction of multiple logistic regression model for each one of the outcomes, including the explanatory variables that were associated with the dependent variables with p <= 0.25 and, after adjustment, remained in the model those with p <= 0.05. The results revealed a high prevalence of burnout by Maslach & Jackson (23, 7%) and Grunfeld (52.2%) criteria. There was a positive association between (a) emotional exhaustion in moderate and high levels and the expectation of continuing employment under the same conditions of work, consider the work negative impact on life and high psychological demands at work, (b) depersonalization in moderate and high levels and treatment given by boss to information about work, high social support at work and high psychological demands at work, (c) disappointment / reduced personal accomplishment and not enjoy regular vacations. It was considered that these results point out the need for improvement of working conditions in primary health care services.

The More Humorous the Leaders are, the More Proactive the Employees will be? The Mediation Role of Emotional Exhaustion

Abstract: From the prospective of Conservation of Resources theory, this paper discusses leader humor’s impact on employee proactive behavior and the mediation role of emotional exhaustion in Chinese situation. By building a structural equation model to analyze the field data collected from 175 employees, the empirical results show that leader humor exerts a significantly positive effect on employee proactive behavior and specifically, leader humor will improve employee proactive behavior by reducing employee emotional exhaustion. Chinese leaders are suggested to pay more positive attention to humor’s positive effect and supposed to take advantage of humor to increase employee proactive behaviors in future competition. Keywords—leader humor; employee proactive behavior; emotional exhaustion Introduction

Síndrome de burnout: a caracterização dos docentes do ensino fundamental do Município de Itapiúna/CE Burnout Syndrome: a characterization of teachers of elementary education of the city of Itapiúna/CE

Abstract: The burnout syndrome (BS) is a condition of psychic nature, affecting professionals working directly with humans. The study aims to characterize the teachers of an elementary school in the city of Itapiuna/CE as the SB. It is an exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study carried out from February to December 2012, in Recanto da Crianca Elementary in Itapiuna/CE, with 46 teachers. Data were collected by means of Maslach Burnout Inventary questionnaire. The results showed that 73.91% of the participants were female with mean age of 34.1 years, and 43.5% single, 80.4% had graduation course, 63% were from Itapiuna/CE. With respect to the Maslach’s dimensions, 30.4% showed high emotional exhaustion, 17.4% scored moderate to low personal fulfillment at workplace and 23.9% with high index of depersonalization. This research may confirm prevalence of 73.9% of the syndrome in teachers. Thus, we perceived the importance of creating an urgent program guidelines and practices that seek to prevent health in the school environment aiming at better quality of life for these workers and a healthy and qualified professional for the institutions.

Factors that Contribute to Burnout Syndrome among Critical Care Nurses in Intensive Care Units, Botswana

Abstract: This study sought to investigate factors associated with burnout syndrome, to determine its prevalence and establish the levels of burnout amongst Intensive Care Unit nurses working in the 3 major hospitals in Gaborone, Botswana. A quantitative descriptive design was utilised. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 40 respondents/nurses who met the inclusion criteria. Levels of burnout were assessed using the English version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. Results revealed that burnout exists at low levels in these three Gaborone hospitals. Emotional exhaustion had an average score of 2.67, depersonalization had an average of 1.53 and a variance of 1.52 and personal accomplishment had an average of 4.49, a variance of 1.01. Factors that can lead to Burnout were highly prevalent. This translates to need for emotional and physical support systems, improving individual and organizational strategies in relation to recruitment and identifying training needs in prevention of factors leading to burnout in the Intensive Care Unit environments.

Mengatasi job insecurity melalui pendekatan transformational leadership

Abstract: Job insecurity is an important thing for nurses. Data says 36% of depressed nurses are at risk 1.6 times experiencing job insecurity which results in emotional exhaustion, quit work, less productive at work, even burnout. Transformational leadership has advantages in the discipline of nursing. So that nurses need to understand the influence of transformational leadership on job insecurity. Purpose of this study is to identify the influence of transformational leadership on nurse’s job insecurity. Using literature study method consisting of 24 full-text articles published by Scopus, proquest platform and science direct from 2007 to 2018 that discuss job insecurity. It was found that Job Insecurity consisted of individual Job Insecurity and Job Insecurity Climate. The transformational leadership approach can overcome job insecurity by: (1) the idealist influence of the leader demonstrates positive behavior, provides training, and demonstrates performance and commitment; (2) leader's inspirational motivation increases employee self-esteem, encourages to be productive, builds positive relationships; (3) intellectual stimulation by reducing organizational cynicism, providing tasks that are compatible with employee competencies; (3) individual consideration of the leader demonstrates good morality and ability to make decisions. It can be concluded that to overcome job insecurity, an approach with transformational leadership style can build positive behavior and establish superior and subordinate relationships. Keywords : transformational, leadership , job insecurity