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Introduction: The purpose of this article is to introduce how social networks can be utilized as an effective approach to health informatics and to provide evidence from a quantitative research study regarding the effects of interpersonal interactions at work on healthcare employees' burnout and health. Methods: Tests of moderation were calculated to explore whether interpersonal interactions at work changed the associations between job stress and burnout and health. The study used cross sectional data from a North Carolina convenience sample. Participants were 237 multidisciplinary employees from healthcare organizations who were at least 18 years of age. Results: The results from this study provided evidence that more frequent friendly work-related communication benefitted employees' health, while more frequent hostile or difficult communication was detrimental to employees' burnout and health. Discussion: In this article, an explanation for using social networks to collect quantitative, relational data to determine when interpersonal interactions at work are beneficial or detrimental to employees' health and burnout is provided. The article concludes with a discussion regarding how these results and methods can be used to advance the national movements aimed at addressing healthcare employees' health and burnout. Public Significance Statement This quantitative study highlights the need for collecting data about interpersonal interactions at work when developing and implementing an integrated care protocol. It suggests that policies and programs should be informed by relational data because social structures in the workplace can be beneficial or detrimental to employees' well-being based on the interpersonal interactions. Keywords: social networks, burnout, employees, organizational health, informatics, Health informatics, or the collection and analysis of data to improve the design of health care systems and decisions, can be utilized to examine how to reduce health care employees' [...]

The current study explores the relationship between coping strategies and psychological outcomes of vicarious traumatic exposure, as well as investigating inter-speciality differences between five distinct groups of health professionals. Results suggested that self-care and social support from friends and family negatively predicted secondary traumatic stress (STS), while humour, self-care and peer support positively predicted vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG). Social workers experienced the highest levels of STS and VPTG, while psychologists experienced the lowest levels of both variables. Regarding coping, generally psychologists and counsellors reported the highest utilisation of coping strategies, while doctors and nurses reported the lowest utilisation. However, the opposite pattern was found for peer social support; nurses reported significantly higher levels of peer support than psychologists. Implications of these results are discussed. Keywords: Vicarious posttraumatic growth, secondary traumatic stress, coping, social support, self-care, humour, health professionals, Health professionals are vicariously exposed to a range of traumatic events including physical injury, rape and sexual abuse, motor vehicle accidents, and disasters (Crabbe, Bowley, Boffard, Alexander, & Klein, 2004). [...]

Byline: Evangelia. Nena, Maria. Katsaouni, Paschalis. Steiropoulos, Evangelos. Theodorou, Theodoros. Constantinidis, Grigorios. Tripsianis Background: Shift work is associated with sleep disruption, impaired quality of life, and is a risk factor [...]

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