Workplace stress of occupational safety specialists in Croatia and Serbia

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolić ◽  
Josip Taradi ◽  
Aleksandra Ilić Petković
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Stress Prevention ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Status ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Related Stress

BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have shown that work often causes stress in employees and even in occupational safety experts. Occupational stress can lead to serious health consequences for employees. As the job of occupational safety experts is very responsible, they are more exposed to workplace stress and more vulnerable to its consequences. This study resulted with expertise on the work related stress of safety experts in Croatia and Serbia. OBJECTIVE: This study examined workplace stress of occupational safety experts in Croatia and Serbia. METHODS: Surveys were used to collect original data and statistical methods were used for data processing and analysis. RESULTS: There was a correlation between the level of stress on safety expert’s jobs and stress levels related to the status of safety experts as dependent variables and the organization profile related with safety experts’ employment as independent variables. Stress of safety experts related to activities and the status of safety experts were of medium level. CONCLUSION: There is a need for preventive protection from stress in this profession. Continuous education of safety experts plays a key role in stress prevention, not only for the safety experts but it also plays a key role in stress management throughout the organization.

Intervention Research in Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: An Analysis of Studies from 1980–1993

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Dunlap ◽  
Karen E. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Intervention Research ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Status

The purpose of the current study was to examine the status of experimental research on interventions designed to modify behaviors of children and youth with emotional and/or behavioral disorders (EBD). Twelve journals published between 1980 and 1993 were surveyed to explore possible trends in five descriptive dimensions of the research, including subject characteristics, settings, research design, dependent variables, and independent variables (interventions). In addition, the database was examined to determine whether interventions were based on individualized processes of assessment. The results showed negligible trends, and very few studies reported interventions that were individualized on the basis of assessment data. The discussion addresses the general status of intervention research and the need for applied research.

scholarly journals Job satisfaction, workplace stress, unhealthy lifestyle choices, and productivity among Canadian nurses: an empirical study

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 191-199
Author(s):  
Karen J. Buhr
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Unhealthy Lifestyle ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Lifestyle Choices ◽  
Related Stress

BACKGROUND: Nurses’ occupational stress and job satisfaction can have an affect on lifestyle choices and productivity. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to provide a detailed examination of the relationship between job satisfaction, job stress, unhealthy lifestyle choices, and productivity among Canadian nurses. METHODS: This study uses data from the confidential master data files of the 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses (NSWHN). Ordinary least squares regressions and binary probit regression models were used to estimate the relationships between job satisfaction and job stress on productivity and unhealthy lifestyle choices. RESULTS: Workplace stress variables have a small effect on lifestyle choices. Job satisfaction has an effect on the probability of smoking, but not on drinking. Workplace stress and job satisfaction do not have statistically significant effects on productivity. DISCUSSION: The study found weak relationships among the work related stress variables and productivity. These findings can allow policy makers to consider efforts to reduce workplace stress which can be beneficial to productivity.

scholarly journals SAFETY IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josip Taradi ◽  
Vesna Nikolić ◽  
Nevenka Grošanić
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Partial Connection

The studies have shown the current knowledge about the problems and prospects of safety in terms of sustainable development. The scientific research methods have been used: a content analysis of scientific literature, surveys to collect original data and statistical methods for data processing and analysis. According to the research, safety is in terms of sustainable development in business organizations. Environmental protection is assessed as the most significant component of safety in terms of sustainable development. Important are the findings based on the positive assessment of safety experts that the workers are aware of it an d that the management of the organization appreciates and supports safety in terms of sustainable development. It is especially important that the organizations appreciate the knowledge to protect and support continuous learning to improve the safety in terms of sustainable development. There is a partial connection between the dependent variables of safety in terms of sustainable development and the independent variables of a safety expert profile. Thereby, it is highly important that the safety experts with higher levels of education and more work experience give higher rating to the dependent variables of safety in terms of sustainable development. There is a connection between the dependent variables of safety in terms of sustainable development and the independent variables of the profile of organization employment of safety experts. Safety experts employed in the private ownership organizations give higher ratings to the dependent variables of safety in terms of sustainable development in their organizations than the safety experts employed in the state and public ownership organizations. It is significant that safety experts employed in organizations in Serbia give higher ratings to the dependent variables of safety in terms of sustainable development than safety experts employed in Croatia. One must recognize the need and opportunity for improvement i.e. development of safety in terms of sustainable development. Key words: safety, sustainable development.

scholarly journals WORK-RELATED STRESS EVALUATION AMONG THE NURSES AT REFERRAL HOSPITALS IN MONGOLIA. /DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC PERIOD/

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (8(77)) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
D Otgonbaatar ◽  
Ts Lkhagvasuren ◽  
N Naranbaatar ◽  
J Munkhkhand
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Stress Evaluation ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Referral Hospitals ◽  
Related Stress

Background: Occupational or work-related stress is defined as a person's response to cope with situations that make it impossible for them to perform normally due to colleagues or co-workers' relationships and the working environment. Nursing, itself, is a stress-prone profession, we cannot eliminate the stressors, but teaching nurses effective ways to deal with stress and avoid stress will allow them to focus on their work and work energetically and satisfactorily. Thus we saw the need to figure out the workplace stress among the nurses who worked in the referral hospitals in Mongolia.

Work Related Stress and its Effect on Mental Health among employees of Ain Shams University Hospitals

QJM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noha M Ibrahim ◽  
Mohsen A Gadallah ◽  
Sahar K Kandil ◽  
Dina A. Gamal El-Din
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress

Abstract Background Work related stress reduces the overall mental and physical wellbeing of employees. Workers in health industry are more prone to work stress than any other workplace. Many researches were conducted among health-care professionals, but not among hospital employees who are not involved in the direct patient’s care. Objectives This study was aiming to measure the prevalence of work related stress among employees of Ain Shams University Hospitals, to determine its risk factors and to measure its effect on the occurrence of depression, anxiety and stress. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted upon a sample of employees in Ain Shams University Hospitals, working in the same job for at least one year and not involved in direct patient’s care. Employees were interviewed using the “workplace stress scale”, the “Depression Anxiety Stress Scale DASS-21”, and the “socioeconomic status scale for health research in Egypt” by El-Gilany. Results The study included 462 participants, their age ranged from 18 to 59 years (mean ± SD: 43.4 ± 10.9), 171(37%) were males and 291 (63%) were females, and the majority were in the middle and high social class (79.2% and 16.9%) respectively). Most of the employee experienced work-related stress: 40 (87.7%) of them, the moderate, severe, and dangerous levels were 32.3%, 22.5% and 7.6% respectively. Work-related stress was significantly associated with job category with engineers were the least stressed (50%) and workers were the most (94.1%). The majority of participants suffered any of the three mental ill-health and the frequency of depression, anxiety and stress (312 (67.5), 319 (69.0) and 239 (51.7) respectively). Severe/extremely severe levels of depression, anxiety and stress were observed among 20.8%, 34.6% and 17.6% of participants respectively. Work related stress was significantly associated with the three mental ill-health status. Conclusion This study revealed a high level of workrelated stress among hospital employee who are not involved in patient’s care with around fifth of them suffered severe levels of mental ill-health. Occupational stress resulted mainly from inadequate control over work duties and unpleasant or unsafe work conditions.

Civil Dissent and Repression: An Agency-Centric Perspective

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ore Koren ◽  
Bumba Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Original Data ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Domestic Security ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Government ◽  
Security Agent ◽  
Panel Vector Autoregression ◽  
Security Organizations

Abstract Do governments make a strategic choice in deciding what type of security agent to use for repression? Research acknowledges the role of auxiliary groups such as militias in repression, yet surprisingly little attention is given to the state's formal domestic security agents, such as the police. We show that formal security organizations and auxiliary groups enhance the government's ability to repress by acting as strategic complements. As the better-regulated force, formal agents are often employed against violent riots, when regimes worry more about the ability to control the agents and their behavior more than about being visibly linked to the violence. In contrast, auxiliaries are often used to repress nonviolent campaigns, when the government seeks to benefit from agency loss in order not to be associated with the violence, which can be costly in these contexts. We empirically verify these linkages on country-month data for Africa using panel vector-autoregression (pVAR), which accounts for endogeneity, not only between the dependent and independent variables, but also the dependent variables. We complement these statistical results with case-based evidence and descriptive original data from non-African countries.

scholarly journals Workplace stress and associated factors among vehicle repair workers in Hawassa City, Southern Ethiopia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0249640
Author(s):  
Hailemichael Mulugeta ◽  
Aiggan Tamene ◽  
Tesfaye Ashenafi ◽  
Steven M. Thygerson ◽  
Nathaniel D. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Stress

Introduction Workplace stress is a public health problem worldwide. Studies focusing on work-related stress among vehicle repair workers are scarce in African countries. The current study aimed to determine the prevalence of self-reported workplace stress and associated factors among vehicle repair workers in Hawassa City, South Ethiopia. Methods and findings A cross-sectional study design was employed among 347 vehicle repair workers from January 25 to February 22, 2019. Questionnaires were administered using interviews. Additional tools were used for weight and height measurements. The main findings were analyzed using descriptive statistics, bivariable, and multivariable logistic regression. The strength of association of variables was presented by odds ratio along with its 95% CI. The statistical assessments were considered significant at p<0.05. A total of 344 workers participated in the study. The prevalence of workplace stress among participants was 41.6% with 95% CI: (36.3–47.1). Factors associated with workplace stress were more than 10 years of work experience [AOR: 2.40; 95% CI (1.29–4.50)], work-related musculoskeletal disorder [AOR: 3.39; 95% CI (1.99–5.78)], squatting and lying work posture [AOR: 4.63; 95% CI (1.61–13.3)] and servicing large vehicles [AOR: 1.96; 95% CI (1.14–3.38)]. Conclusion and recommendations This study showed that the overall prevalence of work-related stress was substantially high. The independently associated factors were workers’ service years, symptoms of body pain, and the work environment. Preventive measures need to be implemented in vehicle repair workshops by focusing on work environment improvements.

scholarly journals The effects of compensatory workplace exercises to reduce work-related stress and musculoskeletal pain

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Cristina Taubert de Freitas-Swerts ◽  
Maria Lúcia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi
Keyword(s):  
Exercise Program ◽  
Pain Reduction ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Significant Pain ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Related Stress

OBJECTIVES: to assess the effect of a compensatory workplace exercise program on workers with the purpose of reducing work-related stress and musculoskeletal pain.METHOD: quasi-experimental research with quantitative analysis of the data, involving 30 administrative workers from a Higher Education Public Institution. For data collection, questionnaires were used to characterize the workers, as well as the Workplace Stress Scale and the Corlett Diagram. The research took place in three stages: first: pre-test with the application of the questionnaires to the subjects; second: Workplace Exercise taking place twice a week, for 15 minutes, during a period of 10 weeks; third: post-test in which the subjects answered the questionnaires again. For data analysis, the descriptive statistics and non-parametric statistics were used through the Wilcoxon Test.RESULTS: work-related stress was present in the assessed workers, but there was no statistically significant reduction in the scores after undergoing Workplace Exercise. However, there was a statistically significant pain reduction in the neck, cervical, upper, middle and lower back, right thigh, left leg, right ankle and feet.CONCLUSION: the Workplace Exercise promoted a significant pain reduction in the spine, but did not result in a significant reduction in the levels of work-related stress.

scholarly journals Associations Between Resilience, Psychological Well-Being, Work-Related Stress and Covid-19 Fear in Forensic Healthcare Workers Using a Network Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bogaerts ◽  
Marianne van Woerkom ◽  
Yasemin Erbaş ◽  
Elien De Caluwé ◽  
Carlo Garofalo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Related Stress

Forensic healthcare workers deal with patients with severe psychiatric and behavioral problems that put them at an increased risk of developing work-related stress and burnout. Working with this target group of patients during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic with far-reaching restrictive measures can negatively affect the psychological well-being of forensic workers. Research suggests that resilience can buffer workplace stress and contribute positively to psychological well-being. However, research on resilience, psychological well-being and work-related stress among forensic healthcare workers is still lacking. Therefore, in this study, we investigated the interrelations between psychological well-being and resilience on the one hand and work-related stress and Covid-19 fear-related symptoms on the other hand. Self-report data were obtained from 318 healthcare workers (73.9% women) working in three Forensic Psychiatric Centers (M age = 44.20, SD = 14.31) and are in direct contact with forensic patients. The data were analyzed using network analysis. Consistent with previous research, the results showed that workplace stress and fear associated with the Covid-19 pandemic can be detrimental to workers' psychological well-being, while resilience can serve as a protective factor against being personally attacked or threatened by patients at the workplace. Last but not least, we identified highly central symptoms, namely tremors due to the fear of the coronavirus and anxiety when other people coughing, which would be the best candidates for future treatment targets. This knowledge can help clinicians optimize interventions to reduce workplace stress and fear due to the pandemic. Future studies should aim to replicate our findings in a larger and more representative sample of forensic healthcare workers.

scholarly journals Which Factors of Digitisation Bias the Work-Related Stress of Healthcare Employees? A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Virone ◽  
Lisanne Kremer ◽  
Bernhard Breil
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Prisma Statement ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Healthcare Employees

Background: Digitisation affects our working environment. It demands new cognitive and digital skills of healthcare employees. Technostress and burnout are more likely to occur due to the additional workload. Aim: Objective is the identification of determinants affecting work related technostress. Methodology: We carried out a systematic review according to the PRISMA statement. For the identification of the digital factors, we applied an inductive content analysis based on Mayring’s theory. Results: Included studies showed the following factors to be relevant for coping with technostress: autonomy, competence, understanding of roles, time pressure, attitude, security and ergonomics. The emerging factors serve the regulation of stress in the healthcare system and contribute to better healthcare and higher occupational safety.

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