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Running a virtual allergy division and training program in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Promoting Leadership by Women in Gastroenterology—Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Work-life balance (WLB) is a major problem because of the many demands and challenges that women in the information technology sector face while trying to combine their personal and professional lives. This study aims to investigate the appropriate management of personal and professional life by Indian women employed in the IT sector. The paper integrates quantitative and qualitative data from more than 50 females IT workers who were polled and interviewed across Indian cities using a mixed-methods methodology. The research looks at the factors that affect women's capacity to balance work and personal life in the IT business, including working hours, workplace culture, family responsibilities, career ambitions, and social support. This article also looks at how women's performance, contentment, and overall health are affected by work-life balance. The study found that work-family conflict, high levels of stress, and burnout are common among women in IT, and that these factors negatively affect the happiness, productivity, and health of these women. The paper also outlines a number of coping strategies and best practices that the women use to balance their personal and professional life, including negotiating, self-care, delegating, and time management. The article offers a number of suggestions and methods to help women in IT occupations achieve a better work-life balance, including childcare facilities, mentorship programs, flexible work schedules, and awareness campaigns. By concentrating on the unique demands and experiences of women in India's technical advancements sector—a highly competitive and rapidly growing industry with a sizeable female workforce—the research contributes to the body of information on work-life balance. The report also offers some consequences and suggestions for more research, laws, and industrial practices in this area. This paper says that how the women employees are balanced and Satisfied in IT sector and the factors that affect the work life balance of women employees are working hours, Job satisfaction, working condition, etc. Which are key indicators in terms of measuring the work-life balance of women’s working in IT sector.

The well-being of residents, our future medical specialists, is not only beneficial to the individual physician but also conditional for delivering high-quality patient care. Therefore, the authors further explored how residents experience their own well-being in relation to their professional and personal life. The authors conducted a qualitative study based on a phenomenological approach. From June to October 2013, 13 in-depth interviews were conducted with residents in various training programs using a semi-structured interview guide to explore participants’ experience of their well-being in relation to their professional life. The data were collected and analyzed through an iterative process using the thematic network approach. Effort–reward balance and perceived autonomy were dominant overarching experiences in influencing residents’ well-being. Experiencing sufficient autonomy was important in residents’ roles as caregivers, as learners and in their personal lives. The experienced effort–reward balance could both positively and negatively influence well-being. We found two categories of ways that influence residents’ experience of well-being; (1) professional lives: delivering patient care, participating in teamwork, learning at the workplace and dealing with the organization and (2) personal lives: dealing with personal characteristics and balancing work–life. In residents’ well-being experiences, the effort–reward balance and perceived autonomy are crucial. Additionally, ways that influence residents’ well-being are identified in both their professional and personal lives. These dominant experiences and ways that influence well-being could be key factors for interventions and residency training adaptations for enhancing residents’ well-being.

A Study on Women Work-Life Balance with Reference to Three Dimensions: Personal Life, Work Life-Educationist (Faculties) and Work Life- Research in Bangalore Colleges

Unprecedented Training: Experience of Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

BACKGROUND Mental health contributes towards a healthy life to a larger extent in every individual. Besides physical health, this devastating Coronavirus disease – 19 (COVID-19) pandemic had an impact on mental health. The purpose of this study was to bring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on male professionals who were working from their home during the lockdown and also their anxiety levels. Also this study will highlight the effect of the lockdown on their professional, financial, and personal life. METHODS Online questionnaire designed for survey using Qualtrics software and BAI scale (Beck Anxiety Inventory) was used to assess the anxiety level in male professionals working from home. RESULTS 41 % of male professionals (54 professionals out of 132) showed moderate to severe anxiety levels due to social and physical restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. CONCLUSIONS The finding of anxiety levels in persons working from home after using BAI indicates the role of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Professional, financial and personal life of professionals was also affected during this period. It highlights the role & importance of a healthy work culture, maintaining balance between personal and professional life. The policy makers should provide interventions to mitigate the effect of working from home (WFH). It also emphasizes the role of employers to promote and provide good mental health at all working spaces, flexible working hours and also to sensitize and counsel mental health professionals to seek intervention. KEY WORDS COVID-19, Corona Virus, Anxiety, WFH, Professional.

Work Life Balance: A Practice or Myth in Pakistan A Quantitative Analysis of the Factors Affecting the WLB of Employees of Pakistan International Airline Corporation

The dangers and stresses of a police officer’s career cause physical and psychological distress which in turn cause considerable challenges for the integration of professional, family, and personal life. This study focuses on the conditions that influence this articulation between the personal, family, and professional lives of Portuguese Police (PSP1) officers. A questionnaire survey was applied to 414 police officers from 11 divisions of COMETLIS.2 At the empirical level, several models were tested to assess the articulation between the professional, family, and personal lives of police officers. The results highlight the influence of having young children, elderly people or other dependents living in the family home, as well as the employee’s age, on the job’s interaction with professional life. At a professional level, the variables shift work, professional category, years of service and working away from home were identified by the officers as conditioning factors in the work-family-personal life balance. Sex differences in the articulation of professional, family, and personal life were also observed.

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a study which aimed to describe the ways a group of deans of nursing integrated their professional and personal lives in their worlds.Methods-Oral histories were collected from a group of 30 deans from three countries -Canada, England and Australia.The data from the interviews were content analysed for themes related to the deans' personal and professional life experiences.Through contrast and comparison of these themes, the researchers wrote a description of how the deans integrated their personal and professional lives.Results-The major themes that emerged from the analysis were: work demands, dual career partnerships, children come first, obtaining educational qualifications, other professional activities, and out of work activities.Conclusion-The world of the dean of nursing working in a complex university structure is complex and often impacts on the rest of their lives.However, it is important to see that their personal lives and how they live them can revitalise and give them emotional strength for their professional life.The study has implications for deans who need to reflect on how they integrate the two lives in their worlds by identifying stress and taking advantage of developmental opportunities.

Achieving a balance between personal and professional life is the need of the hour. Lots of problems are created when work interferes in personal life and personal life interferes in work. Work life balance can be achieved when employees have equal time to devote in personal and professional lives both. Employees must be able to enjoy both spheres of the life. For this purpose there is the need of work life balance. This research was undertaken to study the factors that influence work life balance of employees. It is a review based paper. The study found various personal, social and psychological, organizational and environmental factors responsible for work life imbalance of the employees

Balancing work and life is a major challenge for female media journalists these days. This research paper is an attempt to study the working life balance of women journalists in the media industry. Female journalists work long hours without enough rest, which creates a difficult environment for them to maintain a balance between personal and professional life. Therefore, achieving a working life balance in the print media industry is a requirement for working women to have a good standard of living. The study was conducted with a systematic questionnaire of 50 female respondents to get their perspective so they know the balance between work and health This study analyzed the impact of work-life balance of women journalists on their personal and professional lives. It also discussed how managers should set specific goals that will help female employees balance their personal and professional lives. This paper is an attempt to explore the complex challenges that working women face in maintaining a balance between their personal and professional lives. This study examined various factors that affect the working life balance. The results also show that the working life balance of women journalists affects their quality of life. Keyword : Balance of working life, personal health, professional health Media Industry, Technology, Female Journalists. Time Management.

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Study Design:The Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted oral and maxillofacial (OMF) surgeons’ practice globally. We implemented a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey among the OMF surgeons of India.Objective:The objectives of the study were (1) gathering data among the maxillofacial surgeons in terms of their occupational exposure and access to adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) and (2) to estimate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the practice of OMF surgeons in India.Materials and Methods:Complete responses of 178 OMF surgeons were included in the study. Descriptive and analytic statistics were computed. The level of statistical significance was set at P < 0.05. Binary logistic regression models were created to assess the predictors of the impact of the COVID-19.Results:Out of the 178 respondents of the study, most (37.1%) were following their hospital's guidelines. Most had access to adequate PPE (89.9%), whereas 93.8% had COVID-19 testing available. One hundred and thirty-three (74.7%) surgeons were involved in teleconsultation. Ninety-two (51.7%) and 166 (93.3%) were involved in elective surgery and emergency surgeries, respectively. Median outpatient department cases and number of surgeries done per week reduced by 73.9% and 66.7% (P < 0.001), respectively. Most surgeons (86%) experienced that cost of treatment had increased during the COVID. Over 75% were afraid to get infected with COVID, whereas 44.9% were anxious to lose the income. More than 56% of the OMF surgeons reported a fall in income and 94% reported decreased productivity in academic research. Most surgeons (93.8%) believed that COVID had a positive impact on human behavior in terms of hand hygiene.Conclusion:The impact of COVID-19 among OMF surgeons has adversely affected clinical practice, personal lives, and academic productivity and has catalyzed an exponential increase of telemedicine. Future surveys should capture the long-term impact of COVID-19.

The Fellowship Experience in Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology—Strategies for Applicants and Fellows to Navigate the Coronavirus Crisis