Cogprints

Understanding Job Stress among Healthcare Staff

Saha, D and Sinha, R and Bhavsar, K (2011) Understanding Job Stress among Healthcare Staff. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]

Full text available as:

[img]
Preview
 PDF - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives.
139Kb

Abstract

Introduction: Job life is an important part of a person’s daily life. There are many aspects of a job. A person may be satisfied with one or more aspects of his/her job but at the same time may be unhappy with other things related to the job. Objective: To evaluate the sources of job stress (stressful aspects of work) among the staff of a super specialty hospital & to suggest measures to decrease level of job stress. Methodology: Descriptive study employing 381 staff members of a super specialty hospital using a structured personal interview questionnaire consisting of 21 sources of stress. The hospital staff was asked to rate each item according to the extent to which it had contributed to their stress as experienced in their jobs in the past few months on a scale of 0 (not at all),1(a little), 2(quite a bit), 3 (a lot). A global rating of stress was also obtained. Result: The prime sources of stress were found to be underpayment (76%), excessive workload (70.3%), inadequate staff (48.6), & being involved in the emotional distress of patients (46.7%). Conclusion: The staffs of the hospital were in moderate stress due to the prime stressors so adequate measures should be taken to alleviate these stressors. This could be achieved through workload management, job redesign, & by offering occupational health education.

Item Type:Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
Keywords:Stress; Hospital; Satisfaction
Subjects:JOURNALS > Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
ID Code:7791
Deposited By: Kakkilaya Bevinje, Dr. Srinivas
Deposited On:16 Dec 2011 00:01
Last Modified:16 Dec 2011 00:01

References in Article

Select the SEEK icon to attempt to find the referenced article. If it does not appear to be in cogprints you will be forwarded to the paracite service. Poorly formated references will probably not work.

1. Sehlen S et al. Job stress and job satisfaction of physicians, radiographers, nurses and physicists working in radiotherapy: a multicenter analysis by the DEGRO quality of life work group. Radiation Oncology 2009;4:6

2. Shakir S et al. Job satisfaction among doctors working at teaching hospital of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad 2007;19(3):42-45

3. Al-Aameri AS. Source of job stress for nurses in public hospitals. Saudi Medical Journal. 2003 Nov;24(11):1183-1187.

4. Ahsan N et al. A study of job stress on job satisfaction among university staff in Malaysia: Empirical Study. European Journal of Social Sciences 2009; 8(1): 121-131

5. Ramirez AJ, Graham J, Richards MA, Cull A. Mental health of hospital consultants: the effects of stress and satisfaction at work. Lancet 1996; 347(9003):724-728.

6. Discovery Health.com Writers. Stress in the workplace. Available at http://health.discovery.com/centers/stress/articles/stressinworkplace/stressinworkplace_02.html Accessed May 12th, 2010

7. Kaarna M. The importance of job satisfaction in hospital quality process. MPH 2007:4. Available at http://www.nhv.se/upload/dokument/forskning/Publikationer/MPH/2007/MPH2007-4_Marina_Kaarna.pdf. Accessed July 20th, 2010

8. Posen DB. Stress management for patient and physician. The Canadian Journal of Continuing Medical Education, April 1995. Available at http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p51-str.html

9. Dale Collie. Overcome the top 10 causes of work stress. Available at: http://www.ezinearticles.com/?overcome-the-top-10-causes-of-workplace-stress&id=1202. Accessed July 20th, 2010

10. Cascio WF. Wither industrial and organizational psychology in a changing world. American Psychologist 1995; 50(11):928-939

11. Chan KB, Lai G, Ko YC, Boey KW. Work stress among six professional groups: the Singapore experience. Social Science Medicine 2000 May; 50(10):1415-1432.

Metadata

Repository Staff Only: item control page

Cogprints is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.