Study on working conditions, professional burnout, health and well-being of Portuguese public prosecutors
The general objective is to evaluate the working conditions, professional burnout, health and well-being of the Public Prosecutors working in the judicial and administrative and tax courts, in the different instances, in Portugal.
The study has the following specific objectives:
a) socio-juridical characterization of Portuguese Public Prosecutors, duly contextualized in their Statute and in the organization and functioning of the judicial system;
b) assessment of the working conditions of public prosecutors in Portuguese courts;
c) presentation of a set of programmatic recommendations, regarding the Statute of the Public Prosecution, working conditions, professional burnout, health and personal well-being.
To meet these objectives, qualitative and quantitative methodologies will be applied:
(i) content analysis of legislation and documents relating to the statutory legal framework of the profession, as well as the legal framework relating to the organization and functioning of the Portuguese judicial system, from which the sample of the courts where interviews will be carried out will be defined;
(ii) bibliographic collection and analysis, namely regarding public policies, statistical analysis related to the sociographic characterization of public prosecutors;
(iii) conducting exploratory and semi-structured interviews, discussion panels and application of a questionnaire survey.
This study is carried out within the scope of the agreement signed between the OPJ/CES and the Public Prosecution’s Office and the Union of Public Prosecutors.
Union of Public Prosecutors