tailieunhanh - báo cáo sinh học:" Alexithymia and its association with burnout, depression and family support among Greek nursing staff"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Alexithymia and its association with burnout, depression and family support among Greek nursing staff | Human Resources for Health o BioMed Central Alexithymia and its association with burnout depression and family support among Greek nursing staff Dionisios Bratis 1 Athanasios Tselebis1 Christos Sikaras1 Aikaterini Moulou1 Konstantinos Giotakis1 Emmanuel Zoumakis2 and Ioannis Ilias3 Address 1Sotiria General Hospital of Chest Diseases Athens Greece 2First Department of Pediatrics University of Athens Medical School Athens Greece and 3Endocrine Department Elena Venizelou Hospital Athens Greece Email Dionisios Bratis - dionbratis@ Athanasios Tselebis - atselebis@ Christos Sikaras - Aikaterini Moulou - aikmoulou@ Konstantinos Giotakis - kgiotakis@ Emmanuel Zoumakis - zoumakis@ Ioannis Ilias - iiliasmd@ Corresponding author Published II August 2009 Received 18 March 2009 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 72 doi 1478-4491-7-72 Accepted 1 1 August 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 72 2009 Bratis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Few studies have examined the relation between alexithymia . the inability to recognize and verbalize emotions and professional burnout. Considering the absence of relevant studies in the Greek scientific literature the aim of this work was to examine the associations of alexithymia with the three facets of professional burnout the perception of family support and depression in nursing personnel. Methods The study was performed in one of the largest hospitals in Greece and included 95 nurses. Assessments of alexithymia burnout depression and family support were made by means of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale the Maslach Burnout .