Work-Related Stress and Depression Susceptibility for the Sanitarian Manpower in Country

Author

Wen-Jing Chen

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the stressors among sanitarian manpower in country and understand their influences on their well being and productivity. Study subjects came from Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Sichuan, for a total of 37 rural hospitals, 222 health care workers.Content analysis shows that employees suffered a range of work stress which was mostly uncontrollable and unavoidable. Negative impact to their other areas of life was revealed. Depressive symptoms prevailed among our respondents. Further research efforts are suggested.

Keywords

employee welfare; health care; industrial psychology; occupational health; personnel; productivity; Henan; Jiangsu; Shandong; Sichuan; depression susceptibility; health care workers; productivity; rural hospitals; sanitarian manpower; well being; work-related stress susceptibility; Educational institutions; Employment; Hospitals; Human factors; Industrial psychology; Medical services; Occupational stress; Packaging; Productivity; Quality assurance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163766

Filename

5163766