Previous research suggests that health care providers working with issues of death and dying may experience increased stress and risk of burnout. Despite previous research on the problem of burnout faced by palliative care providers, there have been few interventions studied to prevent further burnout. Research does support allowing time away from a stressful health care environment to promote wellness and to decrease burnout. This pilot study ensured that each palliative care advanced practice provider received an 8-hour day monthly to work on professional development activities remotely. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was completed before and after the addition of the professional development day to measure satisfaction, burnout, and secondary trauma impact. Qualitative feedback was also collected. Results indicated that this intervention decreased burnout, improved compassion satisfaction, and decreased secondary trauma for this team. Recommendations are to further investigate methods to further reduce burnout for this population of health care providers. Results from this pilot study demonstrate that professional development days should be expanded for those providers who are at a high risk for burnout in the hospital setting.

Objective
Adults in food-insecure households will often sacrifice their own nutritional needs so that children are fed first. This shielding may protect children from malnutrition, but its links to mental health and well-being have not been closely examined. The aim of this study is to explore these links.

Methods
We used data from three cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (n = 28,871 youth, 74,416 adults) to identify shielded children (those who reported not being food insecure but lived in food-insecure households). Using Poisson regression, we examined youth and adult mental health and well-being (mood disorder, anxiety disorder, fair/poor mental health, fair/poor health, and low life satisfaction) in shielding households compared to food-secure households and food-insecure households where children were not shielded.

Results
About one in six (15.3%) households with children was food insecure. One third of these (6.3%) included children who were shielded from experiencing food insecurity. Shielded youth did not differ significantly from food-secure youth in three of the five outcomes examined. However, unshielded youth, compared to food-secure youth, showed increased risks of every health outcome we investigated. Adults in food-insecure households also reported worse mental health than food-secure adults but better mental health if children were shielded.

Conclusion
Shielding is associated with reduced risk of common psychiatric outcomes and poor mental health in youth and adults, possibly because it is associated with milder forms of food insecurity. The inability to protect children from having inadequate access to food may compound the psychological strain of food insecurity on mental health and well-being among adults.

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Les ateliers vous amènent à identifier des projets personnels porteurs de sens, susceptibles de vous assurer une vie plus heureuse et épanouissante. C'est une démarche personnelle où vous tiendrez compte de vos intérêts, de vos valeurs et de vos besoins, afin d'identifier vos rêves et de les transformer en buts précis et concrets. Puis, une fois le projet choisi, vous apprendrez à planifier sa réalisation tout en découvrant des techniques qui vous permettront d'affronter les obstacles et les imprévus.

Le programme Gestion des buts personnels a été appliqué avec succès pendant plus de 30 ans auprès de diverses catégories de personnes : des retraités, des adultes ayant vécu un divorce, des femmes ayant subi de la violence, des professionnels de la relation d'aide, des personnes en perte d'autonomie et des étudiants des niveaux collégial et universitaire. Le programme peut être offert à des groupes de 6 à 8 personnes, en sessions de 10 à 12 rencontres, mais il peut aussi être auto-administré ou appliqué individuellement. Élaboré à partir des connaissances scientifiques actuelles en psychologie, cet ouvrage est aussi accessible au grand public.

Evidence from disease epidemics shows that healthcare workers are at risk of developing short‐ and long‐term mental health problems. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the potential negative impact of the COVID‐19 crisis on the mental well‐being of health and social care professionals. Symptoms of mental health problems commonly include depression, anxiety, stress, and additional cognitive and social problems; these can impact on function in the workplace. The mental health and resilience (ability to cope with the negative effects of stress) of frontline health and social care professionals ('frontline workers' in this review) could be supported during disease epidemics by workplace interventions, interventions to support basic daily needs, psychological support interventions, pharmacological interventions, or a combination of any or all of these.