This study was conducted to identify the factors related to job stress and chronic fatigue of hospital employees and to investigate the association between them. For this study, the data was collected from 310 employees who were engaged in 3 large-siz...
This study was conducted to identify the factors related to job stress and chronic fatigue of hospital employees and to investigate the association between them. For this study, the data was collected from 310 employees who were engaged in 3 large-sized hospitals, using a structured, self-rated questionnaire composed of Korean standard job stress scale, multi-dimensional fatigue scale and socio-demographic factors, work-related factors, health-related factors.
The major findings and their implications of this study were as follow;
1. The factors related to high job stress level were sex(female), age(younger), income(lower), career in years(shorter), job status(lower), type of job(shit work), work time(longer), sleeping time(inadequate), experience of hospital admission(yes), exercise(no), in almost all job stress dimensions. The distributions of chronic fatigue level according to socio-demographic factors, work-related factors, health-related factors were similar to that of job stress.
2. As the results of multiple regression analyses, the higher job stress in the dimension of job demand, job instability and organizational culture was, the higher chronic fatigue score was: but the higher job stress in social support dimension was, the lower chronic fatigue score was, under the control of putative confounders.
In conclusion, high job stress made an ill effect on chronic fatigue, which suggested that a proper managing the job stress of hospital employees would play a preventing role for chronic fatigue. This study had some limitations to identify causal association between job stress and chronic fatigue as it was cross-sectional study. And in some dimensions of job stress, for example physical environment, the reliability coefficient was very low, which should be considered in interpreting our findings.