OCCUPATIONAL FATIGUE AND EMOTIONAL BURNOUT SYNDROME AMONG AIDS CENTER MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERS
American psychiatrist H. Fredenberger introduced in 1974 the term «burnout» to denote physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion adversely affecting human professional activities and life quality. Burnout is most often observed among people involved in helping other people. The emotional burnout syndrome is a novel concept for many Russian specialists who are more familiar with the term «occupational fatigue», which in many cases is more adequate for defining of human conditions developing over years of professional activities.