Citation

Van den Broek MD, Lye R. Brain Inj. 1996; 10(2): 133-138.

Affiliation

Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre, Rathbone Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8696313

Abstract

Recent research has suggested that staff working with head-injured (HI) patients experience higher levels of psychopathology than those working with non-HI patients, mirroring findings obtained with relatives of HI subjects. The present study examined this issue further while controlling for the influence of a range of occupational and extraneous, non-occupational factors which moderate the experience of staff stress. The results indicated that nurses involved in the rehabilitation of HI patients did not differ significantly from those working with non-HI patients on measures of overall stress, job satisfaction or psychopathology. The implications of these findings are discussed, with particular relevance to the potentially important protective effect of staff-patient ratios.

Language: en