title: Reply to Letter to the Editor: Below is our response to the concerns raised by Dr. Bianchi et al. regarding our manuscript (Guo, Y., Lam, L., Luo, Y., Plummer, V., Cross, W., Li, H., Yin, Y., Zhang, J., 2017. Female nurses' burnout symptoms: no association with the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 77,47-50.).
authors.affiliation: Nursing Psychology Research Center of Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Yufang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, 3800, Melbourne Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Louisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: Nursing Psychology Research Center of Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Yuanhui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, 3800, Melbourne Victoria, Australia; Peninsula Health, Hastings Road Frankston, Australia.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Plummer
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, 3800, Melbourne Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.affiliation: Nursing Psychology Research Center of Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Nursing Psychology Research Center of Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China.
authors.forename: Yizhen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Nursing Psychology Research Center of Xiangya Nursing School, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, Hunan, China. Electronic address: jpzhang1965@163.com.
authors.forename: Jingping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D000077062:Burnout, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D013961:Thyroid Gland