%0 Journal Article %T A Research for Determining Psychosocial Risk Factors among Health Employees %A Harun Kirilmaz %A Gulcan Santas %J Open Access Library Journal %V 3 %N 12 %P 1-14 %@ 2333-9721 %D 2016 %I Open Access Library %R 10.4236/oalib.1103149 %X
This descriptive study aims to determine the psychosocial risk factors among health employees. The research was conducted in a public hospital in Turkey between August 2015 and September 2015. Checklists were taken from ¡®¡®Occupational Health and Safety Risks in the Healthcare Sector¡¯¡¯, published under European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity. Cronbach¡¯s alpha value was found as 0.71 for checklist with 90 items. All analyses were performed with version 18 of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The data were expressed as percent, ¡À standard deviation and mean. Participants were mostly nurses (85.2%), 59.1% was graduate degree, and 43.5% was working for less than 5 years. The study demonstrates that risk factors associated with burnout are at ¡®¡®high level¡¯¡¯ among 66.1% of health employees and risk factors related to mobbing are at ¡®¡®high level¡¯¡¯ among 42.6% of health employees who work in hospital. Health employees have increased levels of risk in stress and violence (76.5%). In addition, the study shows that risk factors related to burnout are at ¡®¡®high level¡¯¡¯ among 75% of physician and risk factors about stress are at ¡®¡®high level¡¯¡¯ among 25% of them, and 83.3% of physicians have ¡®¡®increased risk¡¯¡¯ about mobbing and violence.
%K Health Employees %K Risk %K Psychosocial Factors %K Burnout %K Mobbing %K Stress %K Violence %U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5275874