Health care professionals have emotionally demanding careers and high rates of emotional exhaustion, compassion fatigue, and burnout (19). They experience exposure to human suffering and death, and interact with challenging patients, families, and co-workers on a regular basis. Simultaneously, they must perform their job tasks efficiently, accurately, and ethically (3, 5,8,14,17). Stress in health care […]
The Condition… 1 in 5 women are affected by perinatal depression which too often goes unrecognized and untreated (Center for Disease Control, 2018). The condition is associated with increased risk of poor prenatal care, maternal substance use, suicide, and multiple poor obstetric outcomes including preterm birth and operative deliveries (Grigoriadis, 2013; Şahingöz 2014). Additionally, […]
