Preventive staff-support interventions for health workers
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 16 April 2014Open access
Brian van Wyk, Victoria Pillay‐van Wyk
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There is insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of stress management training interventions to reduce job stress and prevent burnout among healthcare workers beyond the intervention period, and low quality evidence exists to show that management interventions may improve some measures of job satisfaction.
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This review was merged with the review titled: Preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers because of major overlap between the two. The editorial group responsible for this previously published document have withdrawn it from publication.
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