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Work stress associated cool down reactions among nurses and hospital physicians and their relation to burnout symptoms

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2017
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Title
Work stress associated cool down reactions among nurses and hospital physicians and their relation to burnout symptoms
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BMC Health Services Research, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2445-3
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Arndt Büssing, Zarah Falkenberg, Carina Schoppe, Daniela Rodrigues Recchia, Désirée Poier

Abstract

Hospital staff experience high level of work stress and they have to find strategies to adapt and react to it. When they perceive emotional exhaustion and job dissatisfaction in response to constant work stress, one reaction might be emotional withdrawal. This emotional distancing can be seen as an adaptive strategy to keep 'functionality' in the job. Both, perception of emotional exhaustion and emotional distancing as a strategy, can be operationalized as 'Cool Down'. We assume that work stress associated variables are positively associated with Cool Down reactions, while internal and external resources are negatively associated and might function as a buffer against emotional distancing. Moreover, we assume that the perception of stress and work burden might be different between nurses and physicians and women and men, but not their cool down reactions as a strategy. Anonymous cross-sectional survey with standardized instruments among 1384 health care professionals (66% nurses, 34% hospital physicians). Analyses of variance, correlation and also stepwise regression analyses were performed to analyze the influence of demands and resources on Cool Down reactions. As measured with the Cool Down Index (CDI), frequency and strength of Cool Down reactions did not significantly differ between women and men, while women and men differ significantly for their burnout symptoms, stress perception and perceived work burden. With respect to profession, Cool Down and stress perception were not significantly different, but burnout and work burden. For nurses, "Emotional Exhaustion" was the best CDI predictor (51% explained variance), while in physicians it was "Depersonalization" (44% explained variance). Among putative resources which might buffer against Cool Down reactions, only team satisfaction and situational awareness had some influence, but not self-efficacy expectation. The perceptions of emotional exhaustion and distancing of nurses and physicians (and women and men) seems to be different, but not their adaptive Cool Down reactions. Data would support the notion that a structural approach of support would require first to control and eliminate work stressors, and second a multifaceted approach to strengthen and support hospital staff's resources and resilience.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 225 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 34 15%
Student > Bachelor 30 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 7%
Researcher 13 6%
Other 45 20%
Unknown 72 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 52 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 34 15%
Psychology 20 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 4%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Other 21 9%
Unknown 80 36%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 August 2017.
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#6,922,647
of 22,997,544 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,364
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#109,925
of 318,015 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#85
of 163 outputs
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