Long-Term sickness absence due to burnout: Absentees' experiences

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 620-632

  Eriksson, Ulla Britt ^a   Starrin, Bengt ^a,b   Janson, Staffan ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Burnout; Emotional deprivation; Shame; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; JOB STRESS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SHAME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; SWEDEN; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK RESUMPTION;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 42249106682     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308316024     Document Type: Article

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