Burnout in psychiatric nurses is a phenomenon of great concern. We conducted an investigation of 120 nurses working in the psychiatric, general medicine/rehabilitation, and critical care/surgery wards to explore the correlations of level of burnout and defense mechanisms with hopelessness. The nurses were administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Gleser and lhilevich's Defense Mechanisms Inventory, and Beck's Hopelessness Scale. The results indicate that burnout and some of the defense mechanisms predicted the level of hopelessness-a predictor of suicide risk. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hopelessness and suicide risk emerge in psychiatric nurses suffering from burnout and using specific defense mechanisms / Pompili, Maurizio; Gaetano, Rinaldi; David, Lester; Girardi, Paolo; Ruberto, Amedeo; Tatarelli, Roberto. - In: ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING. - ISSN 0883-9417. - 20:3(2006), pp. 135-143. [10.1016/j.apnu.2005.12.002]
Hopelessness and suicide risk emerge in psychiatric nurses suffering from burnout and using specific defense mechanisms
POMPILI, Maurizio;GIRARDI, Paolo;RUBERTO, Amedeo;TATARELLI, Roberto
2006
Abstract
Burnout in psychiatric nurses is a phenomenon of great concern. We conducted an investigation of 120 nurses working in the psychiatric, general medicine/rehabilitation, and critical care/surgery wards to explore the correlations of level of burnout and defense mechanisms with hopelessness. The nurses were administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Gleser and lhilevich's Defense Mechanisms Inventory, and Beck's Hopelessness Scale. The results indicate that burnout and some of the defense mechanisms predicted the level of hopelessness-a predictor of suicide risk. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
