Estrés ocupacional en personal de salud / Occupational stress in health care personnel
Rev. méd. Chile
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127(12): 1453-61, dic. 1999. tab, graf
Artículo
en Español
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RESUMO
Background:
Occupational stress results from the interaction of multiple risk factors, such as the physical environment, biological function disturbances, work content and organization and diverse psychosocial components.Aim:
To study the frequency of symptoms and the main sources of job stress, perceived by professional and non professional health care workers and to compare gender differences. Subjects andmethods:
A group of specially designed, self-administered, questionnaires adapted by the main author and independently validated, were applied. The results of two symptoms, one work satisfaction, and one job stress scales are reported.Results:
One hundred sixteen women and 89 men were studied, 143 are professionals and 62 non professionals (clerical and nurse auxiliaries). Forty percent had symptoms of job stress and 82 subjects were defined as Òprobable casesÓ, according to the ratings on the symptom scales. There were significant differences in the frequency of symptoms between professionals and non professionals (34.3 and 69.2 percent respectively). The main differences in symptoms, sources of job stress and dissatisfaction were more closely associated to the occupational level than to gender.Conclusions:
A high frequency of job stress symptoms was observed in this sample of health care workers and the risk of occupational stress varies more with the occupational level than with gender
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Asunto principal:
Estrés Psicológico
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Personal de Salud
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Enfermedades Profesionales
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio diagnóstico
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Estudio de etiología
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Factores de riesgo
Límite:
Adulto
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Femenino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Español
Revista:
Rev. méd. Chile
Asunto de la revista:
Medicina
Año:
1999
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
Chile
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