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  • Direct psychosocial health risk factors in hospital employees : a descriptive study = Direktni psihosocialni dejavniki tveganja za zdravje zaposlenih v bolnišnici : opisna raziskava
    Rus, Tanja, 1992- ; Peršolja, Melita
    Introduction: In the work environment, employee health is influenced by indirect and direct psychosocial risk factors which determine employee productivity and efficiency. The aim of the study was to ... determine the strength of the association and the influence of direct risk factors in the workplace on the psychophysical health of hospital employees. Method: A survey was conducted among a group of 112 out of 994 randomly selected general hospital employees. A standardised questionnaire on managing psychosocial risks and absenteeism (Cronbach α = 0.915) was used as the measurement instrument. We used quantitative data analysis to determine the correlations between the variables and regression analysis to determine the strength of the influence of the independent variables on the psychophysical health of hospital employees. Results: Respondents most frequently reported pain in the muscles of the shoulders, neck and/or upper limbs (n = 44, 39.3%), and feeling overburdened and fatigued (n = 52, 46.6%). Four of the six direct psychosocial risk factors were significantly correlated with hospital employees' psychophysical health: work environment, work equipment and physical exertion (rs = 0.385, p < 0.01); stresss resulting from socio-demographic circumstances (rs = 0.401, p < 0.01); pace of work (rs = 0.319, p < 0.01); and work relationship with superiors (rs = 0.261, p < 0.01). Psychophysical health was found to be significantly associated with (R2 = 0.18, p < 0.01) work environment, work equipment and physical exertion (R2 = 0.15, p < 0.05), as well as stress resulting from socio-demographic circumstances (R2 = 0.08, p < 0.05). Discussion and conclusion: Respondents need more direct supervision, consideration of their opinion in decisionmaking at the organisational level and more flexibility in terms of time constraints at work. It was found that the feelings of being overburdened and fatigued were mainly due to working night shifts, and that the most common health problem – neck, shoulder and arm pain – was due to heavy lifting and insufficient breaks from work.
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2022
    Jezik - angleški, slovenski
    COBISS.SI-ID - 134377475