From the comparison within the experimental group, there is a significant difference in a dimension that identifies the burnout: the depersonalization that evaluates the cold and impersonal answer of professionals to service users. The heath workers provide treatments with difficult and stressful work condition taking into account the fact that they deal with illness, human suffering, pain, chronicity, and death continually. When the pain is not recognized, faced and developed may become chronic and cumulative with serious personal and professional consequences. The Expressive Writing represents a useful tool that allows professionals to think about experienced stressful events, deal with the feelings associated with them that may overwhelm the capabilities of professionals and avoid their emotional distance from experiences in the long term.

(Tonarelli et al., 2018)

MY Research Onion

1. Research Philosophy

Participants write about traumatic or emotional experiences for 3–5 sessions, often over consecutive days, for 15–20 minutes per session.

2. Research Approach

Inductive approaches are usually used within qualitative research

3. Research Strategy

• Action research – setting their safe space to write

4. Choices

• Multi-method. 
• quantitative – Maslach Burnout Inventory – General Survey (MBI-GS)
• qualitative approach.

5. Time horizon

• longitudinal – Pre – Post MBI-GS, Open Questions

6. Techniques and Procedures

Snowball sampling – a survey with demographics, MBI-GS, consent, details

Intervention – 4 days of Expressive writing and Non-Expressive writing group the last day may include the therapist

Last day or later – participants take the feedback form with MBI-GS and open question – benefit, emotion

Choose 1-2 participants from each group to interview

(Tonarelli et al., 2018)

REF

Baikie, K.A. and Wilhelm, K. (2018). Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, [online] 11(5), pp.338–346. doi:https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.11.5.338.

Tonarelli, A., Cosentino, C., Tomasoni, C., Nelli, L., Damiani, I., Goisis, S., Sarli, L. and Artioli, G. (2018). Expressive writing. A tool to help health workers of palliative care. Acta Bio Medica : Atenei Parmensis, [online] 89(Suppl 6), pp.35–42. doi:https://doi.org/10.23750/abm.v89i6-S.7452.