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Burnout among care staff for older adults with dementia
— the role of reciprocity, self-efficacy and organizational factors | | Author(s) | Brigid Duffy, Jan R Oyebode, Joanne Allen |
| Journal title | Dementia: the international journal of social research and practice, vol 8, no 4, November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 515-542 |
| Source | http://dem.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Stress ; Care home staff ; Self esteem ; Competence ; Dementia ; Care homes ; Cross sectional surveys ; West Midlands. |
| Annotation | People working in the helping professions have been found to be vulnerable to the development of burnout, and research has suggested a relationship between dementia care and burnout. Literature suggests that the development of burnout may be linked to a number of factors, including lack of reciprocity, low self-efficacy and organizational factors. The study explored burnout in staff for older people with dementia and examined the roles of reciprocity, self-efficacy and organizational factors, and aimed to identify which of these variables was the greatest predictor of burnout. Sixty-one members of staff in continuing care homes for people with dementia in the West Midlands completed self-report questionnaires. Self-efficacy was found to be the greatest predictor of burnout. Findings from the study also emphasized the connections of reciprocity, occupational commitment, demographic factors and self-efficacy with burnout. The clinical implications of the study, methodological considerations and recommendations for future research are discussed. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100304204 A |
| Classmark | QNH: QRM: DPA: DPB: EA: KW: 3KB: 87 |
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