[AIDS, burnout and fear of knowing. Dialectic observations for the benefit of clinical psychology and liaison psychiatry].
A review of the literature regarding burn-out provide a sample of specific variables that describes the phenomenon. This could potentially leads to the emergence of a set of actions intending to facilitate the task of health workers (at least if personnel managers pay it attention). However, it does not preclude the risk of burn-out, neither does it explain its nature. This syndrome seems to be more prevalent in certain medical departments and it occurs to us--through careful listening to health workers and AIDS patients--that, to learn about something that affects health workers, we have to ask patients, supposing they were in the first line. We then realized that knowledge makes distress.
Centre de Référence SIDA, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D014342:Truth Disclosure
Sida, burn-out et horreur de savoir. Remarques dialectiques pour la psychologie médicale et la psychiatrie de liaison.