Journal Article

Occupational stress and job dissatisfaction with health work

Gomes, Mariana Rabelo, de Araújo, Tânia Maria, de Sousa, Camila Carvalho, Lua, Iracema

2019

Overview

Objective The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between psychosocial aspects at work and dissatisfaction among health workers in five cities in Bahia, Brazil. Methods The evaluation was based on different models proposed to measuring occupational stress and possible combinations between them: demand-control model (DCM) and effort-reward imbalance (ERI). We conducted a cross-sectional epidemiological study including 3084 health workers. The analysis considered the association between partial/full/partial (combined) occupational stress models (the variable “exposure”) and job dissatisfaction (the variable “outcome”). Results Dissatisfaction rate was 26%. Full DCM and ERI models were better than partial ones to investigate job dissatisfaction. After adjustments, the combined models presented more robust measures of prevalence ratio than models evaluated separately (PR 2.93; CI 2.26–3.80). Conclusions The combination of models has shown greater capacity to identify situations of job dissatisfaction and provided more potential information to support actions for workers’ health.

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Springer Nature B.V,Curso de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,SpringerOpen
• Subject: Behavioral Science and Psychology / Biological Psychology / Developmental Psychology / Effort-reward imbalance model / Employment / Health Psychology / Health services / Health workers / Job satisfaction / Job strain model / Occupational stress / PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY / Psychological Methods/Evaluation / Psychology / Psychology Research / Psychometrics / Psychosocial aspects at work / Stress / Work environment / Workers