title: Feelings of professional fulfilment and exhaustion in mental health personnel: the importance of organisational and individual factors.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mental health personnel are at high risk for mental illness, burnout and suicide. Previous studies of this group of professionals have indicated the importance of organisational factors in explaining burnout, or exhaustion, and work satisfaction. This study looks more systematically at the contribution of organisational and individual factors to work-related exhaustion and to professional fulfillment, an expanded version of job satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study of 1, 051 psychiatrists and mental health nurses in the city of Stockholm was carried out by postal questionnaire with a previously validated instrument. Multiple and logistic regressions were used to identify predictors of exhaustion and professional fulfillment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Organisational characteristics were found to be more important than individual characteristics in predicting exhaustion and professional fulfillment in mental health professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results indicate that the psychosocial work environment and well-being of mental health professionals can be improved by concentrating on organisational factors such as efficiency, personal development and goal quality.
authors.affiliation: National Institute for Psychosocial Factors and Health, Stockholm, Sweden. Sarah.Thomsen@ipm.ki.se
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dallender
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Arnetz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004496:Education, Continuing; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden