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Background: Burnout syndrome is an emerging occupational phenomenon which makes employees to feel exhausted or less interested on their job with a diminished outcome. Teaching is considered one such stressful occupation. So, this study was conducted to assess the magnitude of burnout among school teachers of Tamil Nadu and to determine the various factors contributing to burnout syndrome.Methods: Descriptive survey method was employed for the present study. A sample of 251 government school teachers was taken by using convenient sampling technique. Teachers’ burnout scale by Gupta and Rani was used to collect the data. The obtained data was statistically analysed using one-way ANOVA.Results: The magnitude of burnout was not high in government school teachers. However, the factors like working in high school, urban school, having spouse as a teacher, chronic illness and increased travel time to school, were found to be associated with higher burn out.Conclusions: Teachers have direct interaction with the students, shared responsibility with colleagues, adjusting with institutional conditions and handling various tasks and challenges put them at a high stress. Health system of India is having many health programmes in schools which are related student’s health but the teacher’s health is left behind. Screening teachers for stress, burnout and other occupational psychosocial hazard will help them improving their life and student’s education
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Background: Stress can be defined as a physiological response to physical and mental demands. These stresses can negatively influence the performance and wellbeing of the employees. Police officers are a part of unique occupational population who are exposed various stressful conditions daily. This study attempts to explore factors influencing occupational stress faced by Policemen.Methods: The study was a cross sectional conducted among the policemen under three subdivisions of Villupuram, Tamilnadu. Operational police stress questionnaire was used to assess the stress levels with 20 statements which were then extracted into four dimensions by factor analysis.Results: By factor analysis stress was categorized into four factors or dimensions namely social and health related stress, time management stress, emotional stress and work-related stress.Conclusions: This study highlights that the major dimensions causing occupational stress among policemen which will form a framework for planning programs for stress management.
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Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women in worldwide. One potentially important strategy in reducing breast cancer mortality is the use of screening methods such as breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination, and mammography for early detection. This Study was conducted to assess knowledge and awareness regarding breast cancer and BSE among working women.Methods: A part of the interventional study was carried out among a total sample of 124 working women in Annamalai University. A pretested self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information about the knowledge of breast cancer and BSE. The collected information was entered in Microsoft excel sheet and analysed using SPSS. One way ANOVA test has been applied to find out whether level of knowledge differs by age, education, occupation and BSE awareness.Results: Majority (67%) of women had inadequate knowledge on breast cancer and BSE. The education, occupation and breast self-awareness has influence on the knowledge level.Conclusions: The level of awareness on breast cancer and BSE among educated working women was low. Active steps and necessary interventions should be taken to increase awareness through health education program.