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Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Nursing requires a commitment to work and care for the well-being of the patient, which is a great mental and physical burden for the nurse. As a result of exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions and experiencing the resulting work-related stress, the problem of burnout is becom...

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Autores principales: Misiak, Bianka, Sierżantowicz, Regina, Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta, Lewko, Karolina, Chilińska, Joanna, Lewko, Jolanta
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31991617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030755
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author Misiak, Bianka
Sierżantowicz, Regina
Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta
Lewko, Karolina
Chilińska, Joanna
Lewko, Jolanta
author_facet Misiak, Bianka
Sierżantowicz, Regina
Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta
Lewko, Karolina
Chilińska, Joanna
Lewko, Jolanta
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description Background: Nursing requires a commitment to work and care for the well-being of the patient, which is a great mental and physical burden for the nurse. As a result of exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions and experiencing the resulting work-related stress, the problem of burnout is becoming more common. The aim of the study was to assess the psychosocial work conditions and their relationship to quality of life in the studied group of nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 523 randomly selected professionally active registered nurses. The study was based on a diagnostic survey using standardized psychometric questionnaires: The Psychosocial Working Conditions Questionnaire and the quality of life WHOQOL-Bref. Results: Respondents with a better education assessed the level of demands at work to be higher (p = 0.000); however, they were also more satisfied in the well-being category (p = 0.020). Shift work was associated with a worse perception of psychosocial work conditions in almost all considered domains. The strongest correlations were between the scale of well-being and the assessment of quality of life in the somatic and psychological domains. Conclusion: Nurses doing shift work assessed working conditions as being worse in all domains. They felt the mental and physical burden the most. Psychosocial work conditions were assessed to be better by nurses working in management positions. The strongest correlations were between the scale of well-being and the assessment of quality of life in the somatic and psychological domains.
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spelling pubmed-70375502020-03-11 Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study Misiak, Bianka Sierżantowicz, Regina Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta Lewko, Karolina Chilińska, Joanna Lewko, Jolanta Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Nursing requires a commitment to work and care for the well-being of the patient, which is a great mental and physical burden for the nurse. As a result of exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions and experiencing the resulting work-related stress, the problem of burnout is becoming more common. The aim of the study was to assess the psychosocial work conditions and their relationship to quality of life in the studied group of nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 523 randomly selected professionally active registered nurses. The study was based on a diagnostic survey using standardized psychometric questionnaires: The Psychosocial Working Conditions Questionnaire and the quality of life WHOQOL-Bref. Results: Respondents with a better education assessed the level of demands at work to be higher (p = 0.000); however, they were also more satisfied in the well-being category (p = 0.020). Shift work was associated with a worse perception of psychosocial work conditions in almost all considered domains. The strongest correlations were between the scale of well-being and the assessment of quality of life in the somatic and psychological domains. Conclusion: Nurses doing shift work assessed working conditions as being worse in all domains. They felt the mental and physical burden the most. Psychosocial work conditions were assessed to be better by nurses working in management positions. The strongest correlations were between the scale of well-being and the assessment of quality of life in the somatic and psychological domains. MDPI 2020-01-24 2020-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7037550/ /pubmed/31991617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030755 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lewko, Karolina
Chilińska, Joanna
Lewko, Jolanta
Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Psychosocial Work-Related Hazards and Their Relationship to the Quality of Life of Nurses—A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort psychosocial work-related hazards and their relationship to the quality of life of nurses—a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31991617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17030755
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