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- Title
Burnout, psychological morbidity and use of coping mechanisms among palliative care practitioners: A multi-centre cross-sectional study.
- Authors
Koh, Mervyn Yong Hwang; Chong, Poh Heng; Neo, Patricia Soek Hui; Ong, Yew Jin; Yong, Woon Chai; Ong, Wah Ying; Shen, Mira Li Juan; Hum, Allyn Yin Mei
- Abstract
The article presents a multi-center cross-sectional study conducted in hospital palliative care services, home hospice and inpatient hospices in Singapore to determine the prevalence of psychological morbidity, burnout and the use of coping mechanisms among the practitioners of palliative care. The study emphasized the importance of promoting the use of such mechanisms in order to reduce psychological morbidity and burnout, which are common in the palliative care community.
- Subjects
SINGAPORE; PALLIATIVE treatment; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; CONFIDENCE intervals; MEDICAL personnel; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); CROSS-sectional method; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 7, p633
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216315575850