Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject "Burnout"
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The cost of caring : secondary traumatic stress and burnout among lay trauma counsellors in the Western Cape Province
(South African journal of psychology, 2020)The psychological and emotional risks associated with providing care to traumatized populations have been largely overlooked in the literature on non-professional trauma counselling in South Africa. Non-professional or lay ... -
Pathways to health: conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout research
(South African journal of psychology, 2020)In my role as consulting statistical editor for the South African Journal of Psychology, I have witnessed a steady increase in articles that focused on the presumed role of mediator and moderator variables. While straightforward ... -
Prevalence of burnout among nurses working at a psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape
(Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa, 2020)Nurses are exposed to stress when working in the mental health care environment. This may be because of nurses being frontline health care providers. They develop close interpersonal relationships with mental health care ... -
Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observation units
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)Professional quality of life amongst nurses in psychiatric observations units may be affected by working conditions such as an overflow of mental health care users (MHCUs), a shortage of nurses, lack of specialised staff ... -
What happens when employees are furloughed? A resource loss perspective
(Sage, 2019)Furloughs refer to placing employees on a temporary leave with no pay for the period of the leave. The current study draws from conservation of resources (COR) theory to examine how furloughs affect employees’ experiences ...