Self-recorded stress levels for general practitioners before and after forming an out-of-hours primary care centre.
The Nottingham Stress-Arousal Checklist (SACL) was used to compare stress and arousal levels within a group of 36 Scottish general practitioners (GPs) before and after an out-of-hours primary care centre opened in 1995. Overall, GPs reported significantly lower stress and higher arousal scores with the new service.
Heaney
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Department of General Practice, University of Edinburgh.
Gorman
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Porter
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D001143:Arousal; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*