Study of psychosocial and organizational factors - occupational stress boosters – for the staff of the ATI sections

Abstract

Stress from work (occupational stress) has, as a consequence, multiple psychic and physical diseases (depression, sleep disorder, ulcer, infarction, immune disorder) and is increased by a series of predisposing factors. The study performed in 2015 in 11 hospitals in Bucharest whitch required completing a questionnaire by the medical professionals that were divided in a basic lot (75 ICU doctors and 75 ICU nurses) and a control lot (75 doctors and 75 nurses from different specialities). After the dates were statistically processed (using SPSS program) it pointed out significant differences between the basic lot (values well above normal limits) and the control lot comparing multiple items: the need of breaks during work hours, proper language during stressful situations, family life affected by exhaustion caused by the job itself, negative influence of the noise, negative influence of patients accuses about medical personnel, fear of professional risks, mistakes during work hours because of exhaustion, absence of guidelines and protocols, unreliable and insufficient drug and medical supplies, simultaneously tratament of more pacients and insufficient medical personel, malpractice. Decreasing the influence of the negative factors may reduce the malpractice risk caused by exhaustion, may increase the quality of medical act and may reduce the exodus of medical professionals to the western countries.

Keywords

• occupational stress
• intensive care unit
• psychosocial and organisational stressors