A meta-analysis of the relationship between job burnout and secondary traumatic stress among workers with indirect exposure to trauma

Psychological Services

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-86

  Cieslak, Roman ^a,b   Shoji, Kotaro ^a   Douglas, Allison ^a   Melville, Erin ^a   Luszczynska, Aleksandra ^a,b   Benight, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Compassion fatigue; Job burnout; Metaanalysis; Secondary exposure; Secondary trauma; Secondary traumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SURVIVOR;

BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84894504974     PISSN: 15411559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033798     Document Type: Article

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