Working conditions, stress and burnout of Belgian professionals in radiotherapy: Comparative analysis and emotional labor exploration

This national survey aims, on the one hand, to perform a comparative analysis of working conditions, job strain and burnout of Belgian nurses, physicists and radiation oncologists working in radiotherapy and, on the other hand, to explore the role of emotional labor in the development of stress and burnout. We used the Working Conditions and Control Questionnaire, the Positive and Negative Occupational States Inventory, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the negative work-home interaction subscale of the Survey Work-Home Interaction Nijmegen (NEGWHI), Perceived Organizational Support Scale and Emotional Labor Scale. One open question asked about problematic job situations. Ninety-eight nurses and physicists participated (33 % response rate), in addition to 66 radiation oncologists from a previous study. Although global scores of working conditions, job strain and burnout corresponded to normal scores, comparative analysis identified physicists as focus group concerning job strain and burnout. Moreover, nurses and physicists surface acting was a good predictor of job strain (β=0.22, P=0.01), emotional exhaustion (β=0.32, P<0.001) and depersonalization (β=0.43, P<0.001). Nevertheless, perceived organizational support was a moderator in this relation. Radiotherapy employees were in the norms. The importance of organizational support was demonstrated to avoid potential health problems, for workers experiencing high levels of emotional demands..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Cancer radiothérapie - 19(2015), 3, Seite 161

Sprache:

Französisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Laurent, J [VerfasserIn]
Bragard, I [Sonstige Person]
Coucke, P [Sonstige Person]
Hansez, I [Sonstige Person]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Themen:

Burnout, Professional - epidemiology
Burnout, Professional - psychology
Depersonalization - epidemiology
Depersonalization - psychology
Health Personnel - psychology
Stress, Psychological - epidemiology

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1958614661