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Objective@#To investigate the occupation stress and job burnout of orphan child care workers in Nanjing and nursing staff in Yangzhong primary hospital, to compare the differences of occupational stress and job burnout between the two social service workers.@*Methods@#From February to May 2017, a cross- sectional survey was conducted. Cluster sampling method was used to investigate the occupation stress and job burnout of orphan child care workers in Nanjing and nursing staff in Yangzhong primary hospital, totally 403 people, by a combination of the Internet of things assessment system of occupational stress and traditional questionnaire.@*Results@#There were statistically significant differences of occupational stress and job burnout scores of both social service workers (P<0.05). Orphan child care workers in job control, technology utilization, job routinization, work risk, role ambiguity and participation decision-making, anxiety state, body complain, life attitude, behavior characteristics, ambition, anxiety trait, social support, logic, family-work relationship and depersonalization were higher than those of Yangzhong primary nurses (P<0.05); Primary nurses in Yangzhong in quantitative load and change, workload, role conflict, job prospects, promotion, depressive symptom, daily stress, self-esteem, task strategy, time management, work input, and personal accomplishment reduction scored higher than those of Orphan child care workers (P<0.05). The logistic regression analysis of the occupational depletion positive rate of the two social service personnel showed that the protective factors of the nursing staff of the orphans and disabled children had behavioral characteristics and family support(OR=0.877, P=0.044; OR=0.691, P=0.001) . The contributing factors of the primary nursing staff in Yangzhong were task control, workload, work psychological control source (OR=1.110, P=0.019; OR=1.128, P<0.001;OR=1.066, P=0.032) . The protection factors were technical utilization, opportunities for improvement, and mental health (OR=0.775, P=0.005; OR=0.765, P=0.006; OR=0.914, P=0.002) .@*Conclusion@#The work content, the service object and the nature of the unit of primary caregivers influence the state of occupational stress and job burnout. The influencing factors of occupational stress and job burnout are not identical, Different social service personnel show occupational stress and occupational exhaustion in different aspects, and it is necessary to propose mitigation measures for two kinds of social service personnel.
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Objective@#To investigate the occupation stress of orphan child care workers in Nanjing, to explore the influence of different demographic characteristics on occupational stress of orphan child care workers and propose measures.@*Methods@#Cluster sampling method was used to investigate the occupation stress of 236 people of orphan child care workers in Nanjing by a combination of the Internet of things assessment system of occupational stress and traditional questionnaire.@*Results@#The scores of workload, job prospects, participation decision-making, anxiety and logical in different age groups among orphan child care workers were statistically different (P<0.05) ; The scores of organizational loyalty in different education groups among orphan child care workers were statistically different (P<0.05) ; The scores of task control, resource control, workload, job prospects, job satisfaction, mental health, anxiety and ambition were statistically different among orphan child care workers with different job titles (P<0.05) ; The scores of role conflict, role ambiguity, job satisfaction, mental health, anxiety, self-esteem, colleague support, family support and task strategy were statistically different orphan child care workers in different classes (P<0.05) .@*Conclusion@#Different demographic characteristics will have certain influence on occupational stress of orphan child care workers.