title: Occupational stress among AIDS social service providers.
abstract: This survey reveals high levels of job-related stress among social workers, counselors and health educators working with HIV/AIDS patients in five large, urban medical centers. Stress is associated not only with the severity of AIDS as a disease, but also with several organizational characteristics of respondents' job sites. The availability and usefulness of several on-site, stress-reduction strategies are explored. Overall, where services such as stress-reduction workshops, support groups, and rotations away from direct patient care are offered, workers participate in them and perceive them as useful in reducing job-related stress. Interest in these and other stress-reduction services is high among those who do not currently have them available.
authors.affiliation: Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University School of Public Health, USA.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Cushman
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Namerow
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work