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Nowadays they are a weight amount of mourning and grief studies and definitions, most of them related to death and focused in family and friends of the deceased. However just a few authors have research and define the mourning process the professionals (nurses, social workers, psychologist, …) who has worked directly with the deceased, have to get throw. That kind of mourning has been calling disenfranchised grief. With the aim to study that phenomenon, we have explored the burnout symptom and disenfranchised grief among 90 nursing home workers in Spain, using a questionnaire composed by The Maslach Burnout Inventory; Grief Support in Health Care Scale; Disenfranchised Grief making an univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data analyses were conducted using SPSS statistical software version 22. Having as a result the association between these three scales and some demographic variables.
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Vallejo Andrada, A., Sarasola Sánchez-Serrano, J.L., Barrera Algarín, E., Caravaca Sánchez, F. (2021). The Mourning Influence in the Burnout Syndrome Among Nursing Home Workers in Spain. In: Soitu, D., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Maturo, F. (eds) Decisions and Trends in Social Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69094-6_21
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