Relationships, Mental Health, Job Stress and Self-evaluation of Care Plan among Care Managers

Abstract

There have been few studies examining the relationship of burnout and other mental health problems to proven related factors among care managers. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships. The results revealed that care managers scored high on the stress checklist and had low scores on quality of life． Furthermore， the results indicated that care managers had stressors toward overload and strong oppression， and also that they had high scores in depression and fatigue measures. ln addition， according to the self-evaluation of their care plans， the correlational analysis revealed that there were negative correlations between self-evaluation， and between self-evaluation and stressors of job ambiguity and lack of managerial ability. ln conclusion， care managers had inappropriate mental health states， and overloads and the selfevaluation results of the managers implied excessive caseloads．