Stress is a fact among the researchers' community, wherever you are and whatever you are doing. It can be cyclical, randomly recurrent, ephemeral, or chronic.
Is there any practical guide [good laboratory practices] to prevent burnout?
"A state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by long term involvement in emotionally demanding situations." Ayala Pines and Elliot Aronson
To avoid burnout don't look for short term solutions, you can look for certain strategies which will help you in the long run,
1. Take control of the things you do like manage your time efficiently, prioritizing the work by making a to-do list.
2. Sleep is important for good health. Exercise regularly to help you get sleep.
3. Learn to manage stress, by maintaining notes to see what's causing stress in your routine, doing meditation and practicing positive thinking
I think this article can help you in your approach: Article Physicians’ Burnout (and That of Psychologists, Nurses, Magi...
The Stress that is generated in the Laboratories is similar to the Stress of many other jobs; in fact, except for the Hospital Clinical Laboratories (of Microbiology, Hematology, Pathology, etc.) that YES that their members are subjected to clinical pressure already on Stress, and more with the pandemic, they do not appear in the "ad hoc" literature. as sites that suffer, with few exceptions, a special stress.
For the framework of such Hospital Clinical Laboratories it is recommended to use the standard Coping and Stress Management Techniques (both at the worker level and at the organizational level), in this sense I recommend reading, here in "RG", our work: "Intervention and Prevention of Occupational Stress " (Intervención y Prevención del Estrés Laboral) and, for a specific approach to Healthcare Personnel, the book by JJ Gestal Otero" Risks of Healthcare Personnel Work " (Riesgos del Trabajo del Personal Sanitario), in the Inter-American Publishing House-McGraw Hill. Thanks
I also allow myself to advise, in the same way here in "RG", our Chapter: "Health and working conditions of health professionals. Psychological risk factors" (Salud y condiciones de trabajo de los profesionales de la salud. Factores de riesgo psicológico). Thanks
The problem should be approached differently for each biotope. Indeed, researchers in developing countries suffer a little more because they are forced to deal with a rain of hammers: lack of infrastructure, material demotivation, political interference ... Nevertheless, the relativity of Einstein is always valid: Our recipe for durable happiness must be prepared with what we have available as ingredients. Isn't that the key? 😄
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51348371_Managing_stress_and_anxiety_in_clinical_laboratories_Guidelines_for_psychologically_informed_interventions
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