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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is disproportionally prevalent among the Bedouin minority in Israel, with especially poor treatment outcomes compared to other indigenous groups. This study uses the perspective of the Bedouins themselves... more
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is disproportionally prevalent among the Bedouin minority in Israel, with especially poor treatment outcomes compared to other indigenous groups. This study uses the perspective of the Bedouins themselves to explore the distinct challenges they face, as well as their coping strategies. The study is based on an interpretive interactionist analysis of 49 semi-structured interviews with Bedouin men and women. The findings of the analysis include three themes. First, physical inequality: the Bedouin community’s way of coping is mediated by the transition to a semi-urban lifestyle under stressful conditions that include the experience of land dispossession and the rupture of caring relationships. Second, social inequality: they experience an inaccessibility to healthcare due to economic problems and a lack of suitable informational resources. Third, unique resources for coping with T2DM: interviewees use elements of local culture, such as religious practic...
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Research Interests: Cultural Studies, Social Change, Health Promotion, Social epidemiology, Fat Studies, and 15 moreStigma, Sexuality, Collective Action, Social Exclusion, Sociology of the Body, Public Health, Community Participation, Social Semiotics, Social Inequality, Malnutrition, Fat Sexuality, Hiv Aids, Communication and media Studies, Power and Empowerment, and Fat Feminism
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Objective Burnout is common in physicians and particularly acute in emergency physicians. Physician burnout may adversely affect physicians’ lives and the quality of care they provide, but much remains unknown about its main contributing... more
Objective Burnout is common in physicians and particularly acute in emergency physicians. Physician burnout may adversely affect physicians’ lives and the quality of care they provide, but much remains unknown about its main contributing factors. The present study evaluated burnout rates and contributing factors in emergency physicians in Israel, specifically focusing on the role of a sense of meaning, which has received little attention in the literature concerning burnout in emergency physicians.
Methods A multicenter study, involving a convenience sample of physicians working full-time in the emergency departments of 16 general hospitals in Israel, was conducted. Questionnaires were used to assess burnout, demographic characteristics, professional stress, emotional distress, satisfaction, and quality of professional life, and open-ended questions were used to evaluate subjective perception of job satisfaction.
Results Seventy physicians completed the questionnaires; 71.4% reported significant burnout levels in at least one of the burnout measures, while 82% also reported medium or high levels of competency. Burnout levels were associated with work-life balance, work satisfaction, social support, depressive symptoms, stress, and preoccupying thoughts. Regression analysis yielded two significant factors associated with burnout: worry and a sense of existential meaning derived from work. In addition, 61%, 51%, and 17% of participants exhibited high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization, and a low sense of personal accomplishment, respectively.
Conclusion These results indicate a high burnout rate in emergency physicians in Israel and highlight relevant positive and negative factors including the importance of addressing existential meaning in designing specific intervention programs to counter burnout.
Keywords Burnout, professional; Emergency medicine; Existential meaning
Methods A multicenter study, involving a convenience sample of physicians working full-time in the emergency departments of 16 general hospitals in Israel, was conducted. Questionnaires were used to assess burnout, demographic characteristics, professional stress, emotional distress, satisfaction, and quality of professional life, and open-ended questions were used to evaluate subjective perception of job satisfaction.
Results Seventy physicians completed the questionnaires; 71.4% reported significant burnout levels in at least one of the burnout measures, while 82% also reported medium or high levels of competency. Burnout levels were associated with work-life balance, work satisfaction, social support, depressive symptoms, stress, and preoccupying thoughts. Regression analysis yielded two significant factors associated with burnout: worry and a sense of existential meaning derived from work. In addition, 61%, 51%, and 17% of participants exhibited high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization, and a low sense of personal accomplishment, respectively.
Conclusion These results indicate a high burnout rate in emergency physicians in Israel and highlight relevant positive and negative factors including the importance of addressing existential meaning in designing specific intervention programs to counter burnout.
Keywords Burnout, professional; Emergency medicine; Existential meaning
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Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for... more
Existing studies of the mother–daughter relationship have focused mainly on the transfer
of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little
attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance
or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four
qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect
on the ways in which the mothers tried to promote positive body image and resilience
to body dissatisfaction in their daughters. Using a content analysis, we have identified
five strategies: (a) filtering – being cautious and sensitive in communicating about body
image issues, (b) transmitting awareness of the dangers of eating disorders, (c) positive
reinforcement – providing affirmations in regard to daughters’ bodies; (d) discussion –
providing tools for criticism of the dominant body-related social discourse; and (e)
positivity – shifting the focus from food, body-size and weight loss to making healthy
choices and taking pleasure in food. Identification of these strategies emphasizes the
many potential avenues for growth and development inherent in mother–daughter
relationships.
of negative body image messages or on risk of eating disorders, and have paid little
attention to how this relationship might serve as a resource for building body-acceptance
or resilience to disordered eating. On the basis of a secondary analysis of four
qualitative samples, we examined how mothers and their now-adult daughters reflect
on the ways in which the mothers tried to promote positive body image and resilience
to body dissatisfaction in their daughters. Using a content analysis, we have identified
five strategies: (a) filtering – being cautious and sensitive in communicating about body
image issues, (b) transmitting awareness of the dangers of eating disorders, (c) positive
reinforcement – providing affirmations in regard to daughters’ bodies; (d) discussion –
providing tools for criticism of the dominant body-related social discourse; and (e)
positivity – shifting the focus from food, body-size and weight loss to making healthy
choices and taking pleasure in food. Identification of these strategies emphasizes the
many potential avenues for growth and development inherent in mother–daughter
relationships.