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Cross-sectional survey on self-reported health of ambulance personnel

BACKGROUND: The high job stress among ambulance personnel is a widely known phenomenon. Purpose: to asses the self reported health status of ambulance workers. METHODS: An anonym self-fill-in questionnaire applying SF-36 was used among workers from the northern and western regions of Hungarian Natio...

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Autores principales: Pek, Emese, Fuge, Kata, Marton, Jozsef, Banfai, Balint, Gombos, Gabriella Csaszarne, Betlehem, Jozsef
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25887624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0087-1
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author Pek, Emese
Fuge, Kata
Marton, Jozsef
Banfai, Balint
Gombos, Gabriella Csaszarne
Betlehem, Jozsef
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Fuge, Kata
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description BACKGROUND: The high job stress among ambulance personnel is a widely known phenomenon. Purpose: to asses the self reported health status of ambulance workers. METHODS: An anonym self-fill-in questionnaire applying SF-36 was used among workers from the northern and western regions of Hungarian National Ambulance Service. RESULTS: Based on the dimensions of the SF-36 questionnaire the respondents considered their “Physical Functioning” the best, while “Vitality” was regarded the worst. The more time an employee have been worked at the HNAS the worse his health was in the first four dimensions like, “Physical Functioning”, “Role-Physical”, “Bodily Pain”, “General Health”: p < 0.001. Those working in secondary part-time jobs considered their health in all dimensions worse. The respondents who did some kind of sports hold their health in all dimensions better (p < 0.001). The workers with higher BMI regarded their health status worse, in four dimensions: “Physical Functioning”: p = 0.001; “Role-Physical”: p = 0.013; “General Health”: p < 0.001; “Role-Emotional”: p = 0.05. CONCLUSIONS: The workers health status proved to be insufficient according to the subjective perception and measurable parameters. According to the subjective perception of health and measurable parameters of health status of workers proved to be insufficient. Poor physical health can lead indirectly to psychological problems, which may lower the quality of the work and can lead to high turn-over.
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spelling pubmed-43277832015-02-14 Cross-sectional survey on self-reported health of ambulance personnel Pek, Emese Fuge, Kata Marton, Jozsef Banfai, Balint Gombos, Gabriella Csaszarne Betlehem, Jozsef Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Original Research BACKGROUND: The high job stress among ambulance personnel is a widely known phenomenon. Purpose: to asses the self reported health status of ambulance workers. METHODS: An anonym self-fill-in questionnaire applying SF-36 was used among workers from the northern and western regions of Hungarian National Ambulance Service. RESULTS: Based on the dimensions of the SF-36 questionnaire the respondents considered their “Physical Functioning” the best, while “Vitality” was regarded the worst. The more time an employee have been worked at the HNAS the worse his health was in the first four dimensions like, “Physical Functioning”, “Role-Physical”, “Bodily Pain”, “General Health”: p < 0.001. Those working in secondary part-time jobs considered their health in all dimensions worse. The respondents who did some kind of sports hold their health in all dimensions better (p < 0.001). The workers with higher BMI regarded their health status worse, in four dimensions: “Physical Functioning”: p = 0.001; “Role-Physical”: p = 0.013; “General Health”: p < 0.001; “Role-Emotional”: p = 0.05. CONCLUSIONS: The workers health status proved to be insufficient according to the subjective perception and measurable parameters. According to the subjective perception of health and measurable parameters of health status of workers proved to be insufficient. Poor physical health can lead indirectly to psychological problems, which may lower the quality of the work and can lead to high turn-over. BioMed Central 2015-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4327783/ /pubmed/25887624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0087-1 Text en © Pek et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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