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Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Occupational stress is a global health problem which affects employed personals especially health professionals. The burden of stress is not limited at individual level, but also affects the organizations productivity, the quality of care and country in large. In Ethiopia, little concern...

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Autores principales: Girma, Bekahegn, Nigussie, Jemberu, Molla, Alemayehu, Mareg, Moges
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33740920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10579-1
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author Girma, Bekahegn
Nigussie, Jemberu
Molla, Alemayehu
Mareg, Moges
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Nigussie, Jemberu
Molla, Alemayehu
Mareg, Moges
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description BACKGROUND: Occupational stress is a global health problem which affects employed personals especially health professionals. The burden of stress is not limited at individual level, but also affects the organizations productivity, the quality of care and country in large. In Ethiopia, little concern is given to this problem and individual studies conducted among health care professionals also showed inconsistent result. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the pooled prevalence of occupational stress and its associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia. METHODS: Articles were searched from PubMed, Hinari, PsychInfo, Science direct databases, Google and Google scholar. A total of 10 studies were included in this review and meta-analysis. We used a standardized format for data extraction and STATA software version 13 for analysis. A random effect meta-analysis model was used to determine the pooled prevalence of occupational stress and I(2) was used to check heterogeneity. Begg’s and Egger’s tests were conducted to detect publication bias. Furthermore, sensitivity and subgroup analysis was also conducted. Association was expressed by pooled odd ratio with corresponding 95% CI. RESULTS: The pooled prevalence of occupational stress was 52.5 [95% CI: (47.03, 57.96)]. The heterogeneity test was I(2) = 89.1% & P < 0.001. The result of the publication bias detection (Begg’s and Egger’s) tests were p = 0.283 and p = 0.369 respectively. Female sex was identified as a significant predictor for occupational stress with a pooled effect of 3.75 [95% CI: (2.58, 5.45)]. CONCLUSIONS: Above half of health care professionals had occupational stress. Being female was significantly associated factor in this review and meta-analysis. Therefore, introduction of policies supporting health care professionals well-being at work in Ethiopia are advisable.
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spelling pubmed-79805502021-03-22 Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis Girma, Bekahegn Nigussie, Jemberu Molla, Alemayehu Mareg, Moges BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Occupational stress is a global health problem which affects employed personals especially health professionals. The burden of stress is not limited at individual level, but also affects the organizations productivity, the quality of care and country in large. In Ethiopia, little concern is given to this problem and individual studies conducted among health care professionals also showed inconsistent result. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the pooled prevalence of occupational stress and its associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia. METHODS: Articles were searched from PubMed, Hinari, PsychInfo, Science direct databases, Google and Google scholar. A total of 10 studies were included in this review and meta-analysis. We used a standardized format for data extraction and STATA software version 13 for analysis. A random effect meta-analysis model was used to determine the pooled prevalence of occupational stress and I(2) was used to check heterogeneity. Begg’s and Egger’s tests were conducted to detect publication bias. Furthermore, sensitivity and subgroup analysis was also conducted. Association was expressed by pooled odd ratio with corresponding 95% CI. RESULTS: The pooled prevalence of occupational stress was 52.5 [95% CI: (47.03, 57.96)]. The heterogeneity test was I(2) = 89.1% & P < 0.001. The result of the publication bias detection (Begg’s and Egger’s) tests were p = 0.283 and p = 0.369 respectively. Female sex was identified as a significant predictor for occupational stress with a pooled effect of 3.75 [95% CI: (2.58, 5.45)]. CONCLUSIONS: Above half of health care professionals had occupational stress. Being female was significantly associated factor in this review and meta-analysis. Therefore, introduction of policies supporting health care professionals well-being at work in Ethiopia are advisable. BioMed Central 2021-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7980550/ /pubmed/33740920 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10579-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data.
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Girma, Bekahegn
Nigussie, Jemberu
Molla, Alemayehu
Mareg, Moges
Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_fullStr Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_full_unstemmed Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_short Occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
title_sort occupational stress and associated factors among health care professionals in ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33740920
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10579-1
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