Burned-out Fathers and Untold Stories: Mixed Methods Investigation of the Demands and Resources of Finnish Fathers

Although parental burnout has been acknowledged as a unique psychological condition that can have serious consequences to families, most research so far has been conducted with mothers. The present study investigated how the descriptions of parenting-related demands and resources differ between burned-out and non-burned-out fathers. Furthermore, we examined what kinds of support or services fathers need to increase their wellbeing as parents. The participants were 10 fathers with the highest level of parental burnout symptoms, and 14 fathers with the lowest level of parental burnout symptom, out of 158 fathers who answered the questionnaire. The qualitative open-ended answers were analyzed using hierarchical thematic analysis and the accounts of the burned-out and non-burned-out fathers were compared. Furthermore, quantitative answers regarding parenting-related stress-factors were compared between the two groups. The results showed that burned-out fathers experienced more parenting-related demands than the non-burned-out fathers and reported needing financial, practical, and social support. Compared to non-burned-out fathers, the burned-out fathers reported more often being dissatisfied with the society, having difficulties integrating work and family life, and being strained by everyday life with children. The reported resources were similar with both burned-out and non-burned-out fathers and consisted mainly of happiness regarding their children. The results can be used in generating services and support for fathers to increase their wellbeing as parents.

Burnout level and associated factors in a Sub-Saharan African medical setting: prospective cross-sectional survey.

Background Burnout, a real barrier to care, whose knowledge has often been established in the high-income medical context. However, in low and middle-income countries, such as sub-Saharan Africa, which is characterized by a precarious hospital situation and a high stakes linked to the Millennium Development Goals, burnout is poorly studied. The objective of our study was to evaluate, in the medical context of one sub-Saharan African country, the burnout level and associated factors.Methods a prospective cross-sectional study concerning doctors and doctoral student in medicine practicing clinical activity in Gabon. According to the Maslach Burnout Inventory Scale, the burnout symptom was defined by high level in at least one of the 3 dimensions and the severe burnout by high level in all 3 dimensions. Potential factors explored: demographic, socio-professional and psychometric. Multiple logistic regression, by backward method, established the model of factors associated with burnout symptom.Results out of 104 participants, severe burnout prevailed at 1.9% (95% CI: 0.2% -6.8%) and burnout symptom at 34.6% (95% CI: 25, 6% -44.6%). Model of factors associated with burnout symptoms: age (OR = 0.86, p = 0.004), clinical activity in a university hospital center (OR = 5.19, p = 0.006), the feeling of ease of access to the hospital (OR = 0.59, p = 0.012), the number of elderly dependents living with the practitioner (OR = 0.54, p = 0.012), living in a different borough from that of the hospital (OR = 0.24, p = 0.039) and the opinion score favorable to traditional medicine (OR = 1.82, p = 0.087).Conclusion in the Gabonese medical settings, almost one out of two practitioners is symptomatic of burnout. The young age, the university hospital center, the perceived difficulty to access the workplace and paradoxically the proximity to the hospital seems be at risk of burnout. The link between burnout and the perception of traditional medicine questions cultural issues in the doctor-patient relationship in this context.

Erwerbsarbeit und psychische Erkrankung – eine soziologisch-psychodynamische Untersuchung

Ob Burnout Symptom der Moderne, Ausdruck des Kapitalismus oder Mode-Erscheinung ist, darüber wird viel diskutiert 1. Es gibt zahlreiche Erkenntnisse zu psychischen Belastungen in der Arbeitswelt – insbesondere in „modernen“, entgrenzten und subjektivierten Arbeitsformen. In diesem Beitrag entwickeln wir auf Basis unserer qualitativen Untersuchung Perspektiven zu Erwerbsarbeit und psychischer Erkrankung aus psychodynamischer und soziologischer Sicht.

Burnout as a Selected Aspect Affecting the Work Performance of a Social Worker

The aim of the empirical study is to identify the symptoms and the preventive measuresof social workers' burnout, according to correlations of age, level of education, professionalexperience, length and the site of occupation.Design study. The study was carried out (from February to May 2016) on 49 respondents, socialworkers, by deliberate choice of typology: former colleagues currently working in NGOs of Košiceand Prešov regions, with who we had participated in various projects providing general-utilityservices. The Inventory of Burnout Symptom by T. and J. Tošner was used for processing thecollected data. The completion of this study is the correct implementation of innovative advancedtechnologies forming a part of the culture of the organization with clearly named functions andduties of the individual members of the working team