Depression, anxiety and stress have been recognized as important mental outcome measures in stressful working settings. The present study explores the prevalence of self-perceived depression, anxiety and stress; and their relationships with psychosocial job factors. A cross-sectional study involving 728 male automotive assembly workers was conducted in two major automotive assembly plants in Ma...

To assess the risk from exposure to occupational stress and burnout in health care workers (HCW), a cross-sectional study was planned to compare objective data that can represent potential job stressors in hospital wards and subjective symptoms reported by the workers. Medical doctors, nurses and ancillary workers of the Internal Medicine Wards of a large public hospital in Northern Italy parti...

BACKGROUND Work addiction (WA), often called 'workaholism', is a relatively recent concept that has not yet been clearly defined. Ongoing studies have found prevalence rates that are highly variable due to the diversity of the models used and the populations studied. AIMS To assess the characteristics of WA among hospital medical staff. METHODS All physicians practising at a French universi...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the current sleep disorder status of nurses in general hospitals and analyze its influencing factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 2,033 nurses who have worked for 6 months in 3 general hospitals, namely, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, and The Third Affiliated H...

The fireworks industries of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, are centuries-old, unorganized cottage industries. goal the current study was to evaluate how psychosocial stress workers Bengal had changed during COVID-19 pre-pandemic and pandemic period, determine underlying causes it. 152 male varying ages were chosen for this purpose. To measure employees, Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) based on...

OBJECTIVES Job stress is one of the factors that increase the likelihood of turnover. Intent to leave work is one of the most accurate predictors of turnover. This cross-sectional study was created to evaluate the intent of nurses working at hospitals to continue working and to determine the relationship between job stress and intent to stay at work. METHODS The subjects were 514 female hospi...

Karasek's job strain model postulates that workers chronically exposed to adverse psychosocial work environment (high strain job)--high psychological job demands and low job control, including poor social support, increased physical demand and hazardous work condition--will eventually develop both physical illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases and psychological disorders such as depression....

background: the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of job dissatisfaction, and to ascertain the association between job strain and job dissatisfaction and socio-demographic and occupational factors among laboratory staff of universiti putra malaysia (upm). methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted among 450 research laboratory staff in 10 faculties and 8 institutes of...