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KMID : 1138720190450010037
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Korean Public Health Research
2019 Volume.45 No. 1 p.37 ~ p.47
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Factors Associated with Occupational Stress Among Korean Public Medical Centers Employees
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Lee Eun-Whan
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Abstract
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Objective: According to recent studies, public medical centers in Korea have difficulty in securing high quality manpower due to frequent turnover of workers, and occupational stress is pointed out as the main cause. This study aims to explore factors associated with occupational stress among public medical centers employees.
Methods: In this study, a survey was conducted to measure the occupational stress of workers at 33 local public medical centers throughout the nation in Korea. A structured self-administered questionnaire based on the internet was sent to all the employees and a total of 1,476 respondents participated. The shorten Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS), which is the most widely used to measure occupational stress in previous studies, was used. The research model consisted of the socio-demographic, job-related, and socio-psychological characteristics of the subjects and analyzed by hierarchical multiple regression analysis.
Results: The results showed that factors affecting the occupational stress of the employees in the public medical centers were higher age, higher level of education, and workers who face patients directly such as nurses and medical staffs. On the other hand, the longer the number of working years and the higher the job satisfaction, the lower the occupational stress.
Conclusions: This study is meaningful in that it is the first to date which investigates the occupational stress of not only nurses but also various occupations in all public medical centers throughout the nation in Korea. The results of this study can be used as an important material for the management of the workers in public medical centers to support the public health reinforcement policy of the government.
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KEYWORD
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Occupational stress, Job stress, Public medical center, Hospital, Job satisfaction, Turnover
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