PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND AGGRESSION AMONG EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE STAFF

Introduction and aim: Psychosocial factors accompany emergency healthcare workers on a daily basis. The negative impact of these factors intensifies because of the cause that these workers experiences some of the highest risks of job-related violence. That is the reason to study the dependence between psychosocial factors and aggression among emergency healthcare workers.Material and Methods: The study was conducted among 468 workers in 2 emergency healthcare centers. The male participants are 58.3% and 41.7% are female. The distribution by position is: nurses— 35.8%, followed by ambulance drivers—26.1%, the doctors are 18.1%, the paramedics—14.2% and theorderlies—5.8%. A sociological method was used—a survey. The statistical methods included descriptive statistics and Chi-square test.Results and Discussion: The participants which reported that psychosocial factors have negative impact on their work – 70.5%. Their distribution was as follows: 78.8% of paramedics, followed by doctors – 73.7%, nurses 71.7%, ambulance workers 67.8% and sanitarians 44.4%. The part of workers which claim that have been victims of aggression or violence are 46.6% and the distribution of answersby position are as follow: 60.7% of doctors, 49.2% of paramedics, 46.8% of nurses, 42.5% of ambulance drivers and 15.4% of medical orderlies. The part of participants which claim that psychosocial factors have negative impact on their work and at the same time they have been victims of aggression at the workplace are 46.3%. Our results confirm the results obtained in a number of other studies.Conclusion: The dependence between psychosocial risk factors and aggression at work is clearly visible. It is necessary to take urgent measures to limit it

Sleep Disorders among Workers in an Environment with High Psychosocial Risk

Introduction: Numerous workplaces are related to exposure to high psychosocial risk. Typical example for such employees are the ambulance workers. High proportion of them report serious sleep disorders.Aim: The aim of our research is to find the frequency of sleep disorders and psychosocial risk factors among ambulance workers and the relationship between them.Materials and Methods: The study was conducted among 468 workers in 2 emergency healthcare centers. The male participants are 58.3% and 41.7% are female. The distribution by position is: nurses—35.8%, followed by ambulance drivers—26.1%, the doctors are 18.1%, the paramedics—14.2% and the orderlies—5.8%. A sociological method was used—a survey. The statistical methods included descriptive statistics and Chi-square test.Results: The majority of the participants (70.5%) reported that psychosocial factors like shift work, night shifts, violence, stress, interpersonal conflicts have negative impact on their work. The analysis showed that 69.7% of men and 70.7% of women gave a positive answer to the question. The distribution by position was as follows:  78.8% of paramedics, followed by doctors—73.7%, nurses—71.7%, ambulance workers—67.8%, and orderlies—44.4%. The part of participants who had sleep disorders was 36.3%, from them 35.2% were men and 37.1%—women. The largest is the share of participants with sleep disorders at age over 55 years—41%, according to the distribution by position the majority were physicians—46.4%.Conclusion: The work of the ambulance workers is stressful, overloaded, and the levels of psychosocial risk factors and sleep disorders among them are high, unhealthy and common. It is necessary to take urgent preventive measures in order to limit them

Poor Lighting and Visual Impairments Among Administration Workers

Introduction: Typical for modern society is the use of computers for both professional and non-professional activities. This is the reason for a significant impact not only on visual comfort but also on occupational productivity. Between 64% and 90% of computer users experience symptoms such as eyestrain, headaches, ocular discomfort, dry eye, diplopia, and blurred vision after prolonged computer use.Administration workers are exposed to daily forced work pose and prolonged work on the computer and in most workplaces there is poor lighting. This fact intensifies all the negative symptoms related to the problems with vision.Aim: The aim of our study is to find the relationship between poor lighting and visual impairments among administration workers.Materials and Methods:  A sociological method—a survey, was used . The results of the study were presented using descriptive statistics. The study was conducted among 386 workers in administration. The male participants were 15.8%, and 84.2% were female.Results: Participants who reported burning in the eyes were 69%, 65.3% had dry eyes, and 42.5% of the participants had flashes or black spots in front of the eyes. The part of participants who worked in poor lighting was 54%. The results from health analyses of the data from mandatory routine preventive exams for 2020 showed that the share of eye diseases was 92.14% of all examined workers. The part of newly diagnosed eye diseases was 45.7%. The largest share of workers had myopia, followed by workers with presbyopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism and one worker with optic neuritis.Conclusion: The results from the questionnaire show that there are many risk factors and symptoms which predispose to the appearance of eye diseases among workers. The health analyses confirm this statement. It is necessary to take emergency measures to limit these factors