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Fatigue, quality of life, and social support in Greek health staff

Writing – original draft: All authors He, M., Wang, Q., Zhu, S., Tan, A., He, Q., Chen, T., et al. (2012).
Writing – review & editing: All authors Health-related quality of life of doctors and nurses in China:
Findings based on the latest open-access data. Quality of Life
Ethics approval and consent to participate Research, 21(10):1727-1730.

This study was approved by the scientific committees https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-011-0088-0
of participating hospitals (numbers of approval https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12516
9177/19.4.2024, 165/27.3.2024-28.3.2024). Written Michielsen, H.J., De Vries, J., & Van Heck, G.L. (2003).
consent was given by the subjects before their participation Psychometric qualities of a brief self-rated fatigue measure:
in this study. The Fatigue Assessment Scale. Journal of Psychosomatic
Research, 54(4):345-352.
Consent for publication https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3999(02)00392-6

Written consent was given by the subjects for publishing Rotenstein, L.S., Torre, M., Ramos, M.A., Rosales, R.C.,
their data. Guille, C., Sen, S., et al. (2018). Prevalence of burnout among
physicians: A systematic review. JAMA, 320(11):1131-1150.
Availability of data https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.12777
Data are available from the corresponding author on Schaefer, C., Coyne, J.C., & Lazarus, R.S. (1981). The health-
reasonable request. related functions of social support. Journal of Behavioral
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