بهداشت رواني و رضايتمندي شغلي كاركنان سازمان بهشت زهرا(س )

Mental health and job satisfaction in employees of Behesht Zahra, a mortuary service institute

Introduction: Mortuary service employees are subjected to daily stressful events such as bereavement rituals, the death issue, and undesirable social attitudes concerning their business. These sources of stress may affect mental health of this population. The present study was designed to investigate the possible relationships between mental health, and job satisfaction of a group of mortuary institute employees. Methods: 250 employees out of 500 total personnel of Behsht-Zahra mortuary service of Tehran were studied. All corpse bathers (n=42), all grave yard personnel (n=29), and a group of systematically randomized selection of other works were requested to take part in the study. Those who had high-school education (12 years of formal education) completed a demographic and. job satisfaction questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) as self-report, while those who had lower education the questionnaires were completed with the help of a trained interviewer. Results: Findings revealed that those with higher education had more psychological problems in contrast to their counterpart colleagues. About 38.1% of the corpse bathing personnels and 29/ of the office workers suffer, from a psychiatric problem. Highest job satisfaction was relevant to peer relationship and lowest was for negative social cognition about this carrier. The office workers and corpse bathers had the highest and lowest job dissatisfaction, respectively. There were positive and significant correlations between aspects of job dissatisfaction and decrement in mental health state of the personnels. Conclusion: The results suggest that people working in mortuary services are more prone to psychiatric illnesses. Job satisfaction is highly relates to mental health in the mortuary service personnel.