Burnout and fear of contagion as factors in aggressive tendency of health-care workers treating people with AIDS

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1625-1634

  Ojedokun, Oluyinka ^a   Idemudia, Erhabor Sunday ^a   Kute, Victoria Opeoluwa ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aggression; AIDS anxiety; Burnout; Doctors; Fear; Health care workers; Medical practitioners; Nurses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889653678     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2013.41.10.1625     Document Type: Article

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