Crossover of burnout among health care professionals 11 furthermore we dem onstrated that burnout is co ntagious and doctors an d nurses transfer their burnout and other psychological strains to. There is a growing interest in the psychosocial work environment of health care professionals (e.g., physicians, nurses) since they are at high risk for burnout. take for example the work of intensive care nurses. traditionally, they have heavy workloads and extensive responsibilities, they must. Burnout is common among health care workers. characteristics of the health care environment, including time pressure, lack of control over work processes, role conflict, and poor relationships between groups and with leadership, combine with personal predisposing factors and the emotional intensity of clinical work to put clinicians at high risk..
Burnout among health care workers is associated with high turnover rates and absenteeism due to sickness, there is an unexplored issue relating to the crossover effect of burnout. bakker a.b. crossover of burnout among health care professionals. in: halbesleben j., editor.. The crossover of burnout and work engagement among working couples arnold b. bakker, evangelia demerouti and wilmar b. schaufeli abstract the present study tested the hypothesis that burnout and work engagement may crossover from husbands to wives and vice versa.. The primary purpose of this 6-month two-wave longitudinal study among 104 chinese leader–follower dyads is to investigate whether burnout could cross over from leaders to followers, and if so, whether this crossover process could be mediated by changes of followers’ job and personal resources..
