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Disenfranchised Grief, Burnout and Emotional Distress Among Nursing Home Workers in Spain: A Validation Study

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In Spain, as well as in the majority of Europe, elderly people are a social group which has been increasing during the last few decades, consequently our society has created new specific resources orientated towards them, an example of this is nursing homes. Nursey Homes constitute not just a new area for seniors, also a new working environment, with new risk and challenges. With the aim to study this new environment we have created a questionnaire composed with the most presented variables in previous researchers among nursing home workers: Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales; The Maslach Burnout Inventory; Grief Support in Health Care Scale; Disenfranchised Grief. With a sample of 90 nursey home workers this study objective is probe the association between these variables and the possibility to used them harmonically in a single questionnaire.

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  1. Pablo de Olavide University, Utrera Road 1, 41013, Seville, Spain

    Ana Vallejo Andrada

  2. Jaen University, Campus Las Lagunillas, S/N, 23071, Jaén, Spain

    José Luis Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano

  3. Department of Social Work and Social Services, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain

    Evaristo Barerra Algarín

  4. Department of Psychology, Social Work and Social Services Area, Jaén University, Jaén, Spain

    Francisco Caravaca Sánchez

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  1. Department of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania

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  2. Department of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Military Technology, University of Defence, Brno, Czech Republic

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Vallejo Andrada, A., Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano, J.L., Barerra Algarín, E., Caravaca Sánchez, F. (2021). Disenfranchised Grief, Burnout and Emotional Distress Among Nursing Home Workers in Spain: A Validation Study. In: Soitu, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Maturo, F. (eds) Decisions and Trends in Social Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69094-6_16

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