Efficacy of an Internet-based intervention for job stress and burnout among medical professionals: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical professionals are at high risk of job stress and burnout. Research shows that work-related stress can be reduced through enhancing psychological resources, in particular, self-efficacy and perceived social support. These psychological resources can operate either individually or sequentially: in line with the cultivation hypothesis, self-efficacy precedes and cultivates perceived social support, whereas according to the enabling hypothesis it is perceived social support that comes first and enables self-efficacy. Based on this theoretical framework we developed an internet-based intervention, Med-Stress, dedicated to healthcare providers and aimed at reducing job stress and burnout. Med-Stress contains two modules that enhance self-efficacy and perceived social s

SUBMITTER: Smoktunowicz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558742 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature