This study investigated the immediate influence of a stress-management training on teachers and
physicians’ stress-related outcomes (emotional exhaustion, work distress and irrational beliefs), using
meta-analytic techniques. In an action-research perspective, the stress-management training program was
implemented in several groups of physicians and teachers in Portugal and in Brazil (n = 144). It was found
that in all the samples where this intervention was implemented a decrease on stress-related outcomes
occurred; nevertheless not all results obtained were statistically significant. The largest impact of the
implemented training program was on the irrational beliefs, with a medium effect size (d+ = 0.61). These
results suggest the short-term benefits of this intervention on teachers and physicians stress.
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