Effort-reward and work-life imbalance, general stress and burnout among employees of a large public hospital in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Hämmig, Oliver ^a,b   Brauchli, Rebecca ^a,b   Bauer, Georg F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Burnout; Effort reward imbalance; Nurses; Physicians; Public hospital; Stress; Switzerland; Work family conflict; Work life imbalance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CALCULATION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB STRESS; LIFE; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSING CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REWARD; RISK; SAMPLE; STANDARDIZATION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84873927114     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13577     Document Type: Article

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