Trial reportMedicine2018
A rational-emotive stress management intervention for reducing job burnout and dysfunctional distress among special education teachers: An effect study.
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- Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses.Educational psychology review · 2023Article
- Burnout and depression: A cross sectional study among health care workers providing HIV care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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- Advancing scalability and impacts of a teacher training program for promoting child mental health in Ugandan primary schools: protocol for a hybrid-type II effectiveness-implementation cluster randomized trial.International journal of mental health systems · 2022Article
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- Psychosocial Wellbeing of Nigerian Teachers in Special Education Schools.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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21 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundJob-related burnout and distress are adverse stress responses which affect individuals in their occupational environment. This study aimed at investigating the effect of a rational-emotive stress management program on job burnout and dysfunctional distress among special education teachers in Nigeria.
methodsA pretest-posttest randomized control group design was used. The participants in the study were 54 special education teachers. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires. Participants were allocated to either the treatment group (n = 28 [59.1%]) or the waitlist control group (n = 26 [48.1%]), respectively. A rational-emotive stress management manual was used to deliver the intervention. We statistically analyzed the data collected at three-time points with repeated-measures analysis of variance.
resultsAt baseline, the job-related burnout symptoms and distress scores of participants were high. However, an intention-to-treat analysis showed that the rational-emotive stress management intervention program was efficacious in reducing the levels of job-related burnout symptoms and dysfunctional distress among participants assigned to the treatment group, compared to a waitlisted group at post-treatment and follow-up meetings.
conclusionOur study demonstrates the effectiveness of a rational-emotive stress management intervention in reducing the level of job-related burnout and distress in a sample of special education teachers in Nigeria. Occupational health counsellors and other clinicians with sufficient knowledge of rational-emotive behavior therapy framework are urged to employ this approach in assisting other employees in managing job burnout symptoms, and distress.
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