What makes psychiatry such a stressful profession? A qualitative study

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 417-421

  Fischer, Jesse ^a   Kumar, Shailesh ^b   Hatcher, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Burnout; Psychiatrists; Stress; Work force issues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; JOB STRESS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MOOD CHANGE; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JOB SATISFACTION; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENTS; PSYCHIATRY; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 34548611553     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10398560701439699     Document Type: Article

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