An assessment of employees’ perception of disease in relation to the importance of annual physical examination among Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center workers

Introduction@#Annual health examinations are a crucial component of health promotion and sickness prevention. A hospital cannot fulfill its core objective of helping people if its employees are not physically, intellectually, and socially fit.@*Objective@#The purpose of this study was to determine the health perception and level of awareness regarding the Annual Physical Examination of Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (JRRMMC) employees.@*Methods@#The study utilized the descriptive method of research and an online survey questionnaire were adopted and constructed.@*Results@#One hundred fourteen participants who completed the survey, 67.5% were female, and 32.5% were male. Majority of the respondents were 31-40 ages or 43.9%. 43.9 % were from the nursing/supervisor/officers. In terms of health perception in various indicators, the respondents were concerned about their health. The overall mean of 3.7105 (SD=0.48884) shows in general that respondents were very aware of the level of preventive care.@*Conclusions@#The findings suggested that the majority of respondents were aware of the importance of annual physical examination in terms of the level of preventive care insignificant to their health perceptions.

Evaluación de riesgos psicosociales y su influencia en el desarrollo de burnout en el personal de emergencias del Hospital General Docente Calderón / Evaluation of psychosocial risks and their influence on the development of burnout in emergency personnel of the Hospital General Docente Calderón

Introducción: Los riesgos psicosociales son factores que pueden afectar el bienestar psi-cológico y emocional de una persona en el entorno laboral, como el estrés laboral, la falta de apoyo social y la falta de autonomía en el trabajo. Estos riesgos pueden tener una gran influencia en el desarrollo del síndrome de burnout, una afección psicológica que se carac-teriza por agotamiento emocional, despersonalización y disminución del rendimiento laboral. Objetivo: Identificar los factores psicosociales de riesgo que puedan afectar de manera considerable al desarrollo del síndrome de burnout, planteando medidas preventivas que ayudaran a aplacar los riesgos evidenciados.Material y Métodos: Estudio descriptivo - transversal, con diseño no experimental, se uti-lizó 2 instrumentos: 1) Factores Psicosociales (FPSICO3.0), el cual está compuesto por 44 preguntas con su subdivisión de 89 sub preguntas, mide 9 factores de riesgo psicosocial (intra laborales); 2) Factores de riesgo Psicosociales (MBI-HSS) contiene 22 preguntas, mide 3 factores para burnout: baja realización personal del trabajo, agotamiento emocional y des-personalización. Resultados: Según la correlación de Spearman (Rho) manejado con margen de error del 0.05, los factores de riesgo psicosocial (intra laborales) tiempo de trabajo, demanda psicológica, participación/supervisión; interés por el trabajador y compensación; son directamente propor-cionales al nivel de burnout. Los resultados muestran que el 7% de personal presenta burnout y el 51% indicios del mismo, a mayor edad hay mayor prevalencia de burnout y el puesto de trabajo con mayor vulnerabilidad es el de médico general en funciones hospitalarias. Discusión: Los instrumentos (MBI-HSS y Fpsico 3.0) utilizados en la presenteb investiga-ción, fueron desarrollados para la población hospitalaria dentro de condiciones laborales, mismos que también han sido utilizados por varias investigaciones previas en el Ecuador y en diferentes países, por lo que el análisis de los estudios previos similares reflejan sobre los factores psicosociales que más inciden en el personal sanitario de las áreas de emergencias tanto ecuatorianas como extranjeras y son similares a los resultados del presente estudio, enfatizando además que el factor carga de trabajo en todas las investigación comparativas, a pesar de ser un factor de riesgo alto, no incide en la nuestra, al ser susceptible de buen manejo y adaptación ante la demanda de pacientes.

Introduction: Psychosocial risks can affect the psychological and emotional well-being of a person in the work environment, aspects such as work stress, lack of social support and autonomy at work. These risks may cause the appearance of Burnout syndrome, a psycho-logical condition characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and work perfor-mance decrease. Objective:Identify the psychosocial risk factors that can significantly lead to the development of Burnout syndrome; propose preventive measures that will help mitigate the risks evidenced.Materials and Methods:Descriptive - cross-sectional study, with a non-experimental de-sign, 2 instruments were used: 1) Psychosocial Factors (FPSICO3.0), which is made up of 44 questions with their subdivision of 89 sub-questions, measures 9 psychosocial risk factors (in-tra-work); 2) Psychosocial Risk Factors (MBI-HSS) contains 22 questions, measures 3 factors for burnout: low personal performance at work, emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. Outcome: According to Spearman's correlation (Rho) managed with a margin of error of 0.05, psychosocial risk factors (intra-work) work time, psychological demand, participation/supervision; worker interest and compensation; are directly proportional to the level of bur-nout. The results show that 7% of the staff have burnout and 51% have signs of it. The older, the higher the prevalence of burnout; The profession with the greatest vulnerability to Bur-nout syndrome are doctors and nurses working in hospitals.Discussion: The instruments (MBI-HSS and Fpsico 3.0) used in the present research were developed for the hospital employees within working conditions, which have also been used by previous researches in Ecuador as well as in different countries, so the similar previous studies reflect on the psychosocial factors that most affect health workers in both Ecuadorian and foreign emergency areas and are similar to the results of the present study, which empha-sizes the workload factor in all comparative research, despite being a high risk factor, it does not affect ours, as it is susceptible to good management and adaptation to patient demand.

The Development and Validation of a Personality Assessment Scale for Hospital Employees / 신경정신의학

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to develop a Personality Assessment Scale for Hospital Employees (PAS-HE). Most current personality scales for recruiting employees have focused on evaluating the negative aspects of mental health. The present study sought to develop a Self-Report Questionnaire that assessed not only mental health problems but also positive personality traits and character strengths, as well as capabilities for hospital work. METHODS: Initially, a preliminary item pool was constructed and administered to psychiatry outpatients (n=44), hospital employees (n=217), and normal adults matched to hospital employees (n=217). Using the data from the three groups, the final 250 items for the PAS-HE were selected. Next, using data from 637 normal adults, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and factor structure were examined and age norms were calculated for each of four age groups (18–25, 26–35, 36–45, 46–55 years). RESULTS: The PAS-HE showed moderate to high internal consistency, good temporal stability, and good construct validity. Factor structure and t-score norms (mean=50, SD=10) for each age group were established. CONCLUSION: The results of this study indicated the reliability and validity of the developed PAS-HE, suggesting that the PAS-HE can be time- and cost-efficient when used for recruitment and human resource management in hospitals.

The Influence of Violence Experience on the Job Stress among Hospital Employees Working at Administration and Discharging Department / 보건행정학회지

BACKGROUND: Workplace violence was recognized to be social problems that might impact the health status and the job satisfaction of employee in hospitals. This study investigated the current status of violence and job stress among hospital employees working at administration and discharging department. METHODS: The study subjects were 213 administrative employees working at 20 general hospitals. Data were collected by self-administered questionnaire that included information such as demographics, job-related characteristics, experience of violence, and job stress. The violence was classified as verbal violence, physical threat, and physical violence occurred by patients and caregivers. Analysis of variance, t-tests, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis were performed to examine the associated factors with job stress. RESULTS: The levels of verbal violence, physical threat, and physical violence were 1.64±1.08, 0.54±0.67, and 0.04±0.17, respectively. The score of job stress was 2.74±0.50 and it was associated with age, existence of spouse, drinking frequency, subjective health status, disease history, night-time treatment, and public health administration career in simple analysis. In multiple linear regression analysis, the level of verbal violence experience was significantly associated with job stress (B=0.09, p=0.001). Also physical threats (B=0.18, p<0.001) and physical violence (B=0.48, p=0.008) showed positive association with job stress. CONCLUSION: This study attempted to examine the association between experience of violence and job stress in administrative employees at medical institutions. Levels of violence showed positive correlation with the job stress. Environment improvement to protect employee from violence and management of employees who experienced workplace violence are needed to reduce the job stress.

Effect of shift working on reaction time in hospital employees.

Visual and Auditory reaction time (VRT, ART) were studied in 286 hospital employees during day duty and night duty in the age group of 20 to 60 years to find out the effect of shift working on reaction time in hospital employees. Subjects were presented with two visual stimuli i.e. red and green light and two auditory stimuli i.e. high pitch and low pitch sound stimuli. The significance of difference of VRT and ART during day duty and night duty was studied with the use of standard error of difference between two means. The statistical difference was determined by ‘z’ test. VRT during day duty (231.60±30.93) were less than VRT during night duty (234.98±32.27) and ART during day duty (224.69±46.95) were also less than ART during night duty (228.74±47.01). Our results indicate that reaction time is more during night duty as compared to day duty but the difference is not significant. It may be because of hospital employees get adapted to reduced sleep after working continuously in the shift system.

A pressão arterial em funcionários do Hospital Universitário Regional do Norte do Paraná: associação com variáveis biopsicossociais, hábitos de vida e conhecimento sobre hipertensão / Employees´blood pressures of Regional Hospital from North Paraná, Brazil: association with bio-psycgosocial variables, life style and knowledge regarding hypertension

A hipertensão arterial é uma doença com alta prevalência atingindo cerca de 15% a 20% os adultos e influencia o perfil de morbidade e mortalidade cardiovascular. Objetivo foi caracterizar o nível de pressão arterial de funcionários do Hospital Universitário Regional do Norte do Paraná - Londrina e associar com variáveis estruturais, psicossociais, hábitos de vida e o conhecimento sobre sobre hipertensão arterial. A amostra foi formada por 356 funcionários (41'+ OU -'8 anos, 65% mulheres, 76% brancos, 40% com segundo grau e 26% com nível superior, 74% com mais de 5 salários mínimos, 74% com companheiro, 64% com função manual não especializada ou semi-especializada, Índice de massa corporal=26'+ OU -'4, 17% fumantes, 23% referiram ingestão de bebida alcoólica e 30% realizar atividade física. A pressão arterial foi medida com aparelho automático, OMRON 705, na posição sentada, após 5 min de repuso, com manguito adequado à circunferência do braço. A prevalência da hipertensão arterial foi de 20%. A análise univariada mostrou que as variáveis como sexo masculino; idade acima de 50 anos; função de escritório e manual não especializada; pertencer à diretoria clínica; baixa escolaridade; ser responsável pelo sustento da família; ingestão de bebida alcoólica; consumo frequente de carnes; e peso elevado se associaram significativamente (p<0,05) com elevação da pressão arterial. A análise multivariada mostrou que o sexo, ocupação, consumo de carnes e a obesidade confirmaram a elevação significativa da pressão arterial. Mais de 90% dos funcionários tinham conhecimento sobre o que é a hipertensão arterial e tratamento não-farmacológico. A maioria apresentou médio estado e traço de ansiedade (77% e 87%, respectivamente). ) Portanto, o presente estudo mostrou que funcionários de um hospital apresentam prevalência de hipertensão semelhante a de outras populações e que a pressão arterial foi influenciada por variáveis biossociais e hábitos de vida

Hypertension is a highly prevalent disease and influences cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Roughly 15% to 20% of adults have it. Objective it aims at characterizing blood pressure level of employees of a Regional School Hospital in North Paraná - Londrina and associating it with structure and psuchosocial variables, life style, and knowledge concerning hypertension. The sample was composed of 356 employees (41'+ OR -'8 years, 65% women, 76% white, 40% attended Middle School whereas 25% University, 74% earned over US$419,45 monthly, 74% lived with a partner, 64% had a non-specialized or semi-specialized manual job, body mass index = 26'+ OR -'4, 17% smoked, 23% mentioned alcohol intake, and 30% mentioned to have a physical activity). A semi-automatic device, OMRON 705, with a suitable cuff for arm circumference was employed to measure blood pressure while the employee was in a sitting position and had rested for five. Hypertension prevalence was 20%. The unite-varied analysis showed that variables such as male gender; age over 50 years; office work and non-specialized manual job; being a member of the clinical board; low school level; being the head of the family; alcohol intake; frequently red meat intake; and being overweight associated significantly (p<0.05) with increase in blood pressure. Whereas multi-varied analysis showed that gender, job, meat intake, and obesity confirmed significant increase in blood pressure. Over 90% of the employees knew what hypertension and non-pharmacological treatment are. Most of them showed anxiety medium level and trait (77% and 87% respectively). Therefore the current study showed that hospital employees have hypertension prevalence similar to other populations and that blood pressure was influenced by bio-social variables and life style

A Study on Possibility of Special Health Examination to the Hospital Employees / 대한산업의학회지

This study was performed to decide the possibility of special health examination to the hospital employees. We carried out questionnaire survey for 830 subjects at 2 general hospitals located in Pusan city. The summary of this study are as follows. 1. Above 10% of total hospital employees were replied that they exposed to 16 hazard items, such as dust, noise, stress and etc. Among them, over 50% of hospital employees exposed to dust(69.8%), noise(52.3%), stress(60.1%). And hospital employees exposed to alcoholic disinfectant(41.3%), radiation(34.6%), drug(33.3%), VDT(25.2%), and aldehyde(18.7%) also. 2. 63% of the hospital employees replied that there were hazardous factors in hospital environments, and 80% insisted the necessity for hospital environment measuring. 35.7% of respondents replied that they had never taken the education about hazardous factors. 35.7% of the total respondents answered that they didn't use protective equipment when exposed to hazardous factors. And 48.6% answered they took periodic health examination. Only 7.2% replied that ventilation condition of office room was proper. As shown in above results, hospital employees are exposed to various hazards, and turn out neglecting to health problems caused these hazardous factors. So at first, it is necessary to measuring hospital working environment, and then will be decided the possibility of special health examination to the hospital employees.

A Study on Possibility of Special Health Examination to the Hospital Employees / 대한산업의학회지

This study was performed to decide the possibility of special health examination to the hospital employees. We carried out questionnaire survey for 830 subjects at 2 general hospitals located in Pusan city. The summary of this study are as follows. 1. Above 10% of total hospital employees were replied that they exposed to 16 hazard items, such as dust, noise, stress and etc. Among them, over 50% of hospital employees exposed to dust(69.8%), noise(52.3%), stress(60.1%). And hospital employees exposed to alcoholic disinfectant(41.3%), radiation(34.6%), drug(33.3%), VDT(25.2%), and aldehyde(18.7%) also. 2. 63% of the hospital employees replied that there were hazardous factors in hospital environments, and 80% insisted the necessity for hospital environment measuring. 35.7% of respondents replied that they had never taken the education about hazardous factors. 35.7% of the total respondents answered that they didn't use protective equipment when exposed to hazardous factors. And 48.6% answered they took periodic health examination. Only 7.2% replied that ventilation condition of office room was proper. As shown in above results, hospital employees are exposed to various hazards, and turn out neglecting to health problems caused these hazardous factors. So at first, it is necessary to measuring hospital working environment, and then will be decided the possibility of special health examination to the hospital employees.