Workplace Violence and Self-reported Psychological Health: Coping with Post-traumatic Stress, Mental Distress, and Burnout among Physicians Working in the Emergency Departments Compared to Other Specialties in Pakistan

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 167-177.e1

  Zafar, Waleed ^a   Khan, Uzma R ^a   Siddiqui, Shakeel A ^a   Jamali, Seemin ^b   Razzak, Junaid A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

anxiety; burnout; coping; depression; emergency department; emergency physician; Karachi; mental health; Pakistan; post traumatic stress disorder; workplace violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BURNOUT; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNIST; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGIST; PEDIATRICIAN; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURGEON; VERBAL HOSTILITY; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PHYSICIANS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

EID: 84952872546     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2015.02.049     Document Type: Article

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