Occupational Stress in a Public Mental Hospital: The Psychiatrist's View

1984 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Dawkins ◽  
Frederick C. Depp ◽  
Nancy Seizer
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

Pediatric Consultation in a Public Mental Hospital

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-931
Author(s):  
HAROLD BOVERMAN ◽  
ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN
Keyword(s):  
Staff Training ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Program Design ◽  
The State ◽  
State Mental Hospital ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Training And Supervision ◽  
Pediatric Consultation ◽  
State Mental ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

The number of children in state mental institutions is inevitably increasing. At the same time it is increasingly difficult to generate enough staff adequate for caretaking, training, and supervision. There are no instant solutions to this problem; no hidden panaceas that might make it right soon. Hoping for some partial help, it makes sense to review the place of the pediatrician in the state mental hospital and the hospital's traditional sources for program design as well as staff training and supervision. Such hospitals were designed for adults. In addition, they both benefit and suffer from a massive tradition and inertia.

A Self-Governed Patients' Social Club in a Public Mental Hospital

1941 ◽  
Vol 87 (368) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bierer ◽  
F. P. Haldane
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Club ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Operative Activity ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

On December 8, 1939, 35 patients, neurotics and psychotics, met in “Sunnyside House” and formed a social club. The chair at the meeting was taken by a patient. We had previously met this patient with a few others, and explained to them the aim we had in view in proposing that they formed a club. Later this aim was expressed in the following paragraph which is taken from an article written for the first magazine of the Club :“We find there are two main problems common to many who come to a modern mental hospital—the problem of ‘occupation’ and the problem of 'social relationship,’ that is, the relationship between the ‘I’ and the ‘ you.’ It was with the importance of the latter problem in mind that we suggested the establishment of a social club… . The satisfaction of successful co-operation is one of the surest foundations for happiness and inner security. Many of us here are lonely souls who have walled ourselves off to some extent from the society of our fellows. For one reason or another we have avoided the social impact and retreated into solitude and isolation. We have thus deprived ourselves of the possibility of co-operative activity and of the sense of security and fulfilment that this can bring. The Sunny Side Club will enable us to take the first few steps in the direction of fuller social co-operation by giving us the opportunity of working together on its various committees or of joining in its activities.”

MANAGEMENT AND THE PUBLIC MENTAL HOSPITAL

1957 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Addison M. Duval
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

Unitizing a Public Mental Hospital

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 287-289
Author(s):  
Morgan Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

Research in Psychiatric Nursing: 1. The Role of the Nurse-Therapist in a Large Public Mental Hospital

1955 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Robinson ◽  
June Mellow ◽  
Phyllis Hurteau ◽  
Marc A. Fried
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
Public Mental Hospital

scholarly journals Determinants of occupational stress among health care professionals working at a setting of a specialized mental hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2017: a hospital-based cross-sectional study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simret T/tsadike ◽  
haregewoin mulat ◽  
mogesie necho ◽  
tsigereda waja
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

Abstract BACKGROUND: Stress at workplace among health professionals predisposes to an inefficient organization, absenteeism from work, job dissatisfaction, and various physical, psychological as well as behavioral health problems. Despite this, little has been done into this health issue. So, this study assessed occupational stress and its determinants among health care professionals. METHODS: Hospital-based cross-sectional study was implemented among 398 participants from May 1 to June 1, 2017, at Amanuel hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A pretested and self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Nursing stress scale was used to asses occupational stress. Data was entered to Epi-info-version-7 and analyzed with SPSS-20. Descriptive statistics were also utilized. Binary logistic regressions with odds ratios and 95% confidence interval were used. P-value < 0.05 in final model was significant. RESULTS: Among 398 participants included in the study, 393 provided complete information which gives a response rate of 98.7%. This study showed that 46.8% (95%CI: 41.7, 51.7) of health professional were having occupational stress. Multivariable binary logistic regression analysis showed that working in emergency department (AOR=3.48; 95% CI: 2.12, 12.08), forensic psychiatry unit (AOR=3.48; 95% CI: 1.25, 35.06) and job dissatisfaction (AOR=2.606; 95% CI: 1.563, 4.345) were risk factors for occupational stress. CONCLUSION: Occupational stress among health professionals was high. Work-related variables (working in the emergency department and dissatisfaction with the job) were its risk factors. Attention has to be given for such an important public health issue. KEYWORDS: Health workers, occupational stress, Mental hospital, Ethiopia.

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