Emotional Burnout Among Medical Social Officers: A Qualitative Study Among Officers of Northeast Punjab
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Medical Social Officers, Emotional Burnout, Northeast PunjabAbstract
This qualitative research endeavor summarizes the experiences of Medical Social Officers from their own perspectives regarding their emotional burnout. The MSO’s general experiences based on their emotional burnout were examined by employing qualitative research design’s purposive sampling research technique. The Crisis Intervention theory by Elbert R. Roberts and Allen J. Otten formed core of the study to provide it a detailed exploration. The qualitative research design was based upon Edmond Husserl’s Transcendental phenomenology in present research. For qualitative data analysis, interpretive phenomenological analysis was applied. The Medical Social Officers of Lahore, Gujranwala and Sialkot, three major districts of Northeast Punjab, were the human universe of the study.
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