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Author(s)
Romeo Marco
Anna Vespa , Maria Velia Giulietti
Riccardo Giampieri, Tania Meletani, Ilaria Fiordoliva, Maria Giuditta Baleani, Sofia Formentini,
Rossana Berardi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2017.09.005
Affiliation(s)
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy;
Fondazione Rossetti Fedecostante, Ancona, Italy
INRCA-IRCCS-National Institute of Science and Health for Aging, Ancona, Italy
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
ABSTRACT
Over the last 30 years, Burn-out Syndrome
has been mainly matched to psychological discomfort among the staff in Oncology
Departments, therefore, it has been considered as the unique issue to be diagnosed,
treated, and prevented. Our study is aimed to
evaluate the relation between psychological states and traits with different Burn-out
Scales from a clinical point of view. Three questionnaires: Link Burn-out Questionnaire (LBQ), State-Trait Anger Expression
Inventory–2 (STAXI-2), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) have been given to
the working staff including Medical Oncologists, Specialist Registrant, Nurses, and Healthcare Assistants
at the Oncology Department from February to April 2016. Seventy-two operators have
been included in our analysis. Male/Female (M/F) ratio was 18/54. Median age was 37 years old (range from 20 years old to 62 years old). We did not show a significant
correlation between depression and operators’ age, years of work, professional role, and relational decline,
while a statistically significant association was observed between depression and
professional ineffectiveness (p=0.042), disillusion (p=0.0003), and psychophysical exhaustion
(p = 0.00001). According to
STAXI 2, 15% of the personnel had a high expression of aggressiveness while 10%
was over-controlled. Aggressiveness was statistically related to depression (p = 0.001), disillusion (p = 0.009), and psychophysical
exhaustion (p = 0.012). This study showed
that aggressiveness and depression play a crucial role in psychological discomfort
in an Oncology Department operators. Therefore, they should be taken into account together with burn-out
when performing screening procedures for the psychological discomfort in the same
setting.
KEYWORDS
aggressiveness, anxiety, burn out, cancer, depression, oncology
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