title: Assessment of subjective stress in video display terminal workers.
abstract: Stress assessment in the workplace has been focused on its environmental, psychological and biological aspects. We carried out an evaluation of the subjective components of stress in a working population of 60 subjects employed in a large Public Service, 30 Video Display Terminal (VDT) workers (15 men and 15 woman) and 30 office-workers not assigned to VDT (15 men and 15 woman), by using the "Rapid Stress Assessment Scale": a short questionnaire of easy administration in work environment. VDT workers of both sexes showed higher total stress score vs. office workers (respectively p<0.05, p<0.05). Gender differences were present: female VDT workers showed higher scores of clusters anxiety (p<0.001) and aggressiveness (p<0.05); male VDT workers' score were significantly higher in somatization (p<0.05) and aggressiveness cluster. Our results showed that in VDT workers are experienced greater subjective response to stress than "office workers" and confirm the gender differences in stress experiencing.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Medicine Department, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Viale Regina Elena 336, 00161 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianfranco
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tomei
authors.forename: Maria Valeria
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Rosati
authors.forename: Agnese
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tarsitani
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biondi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pancheri
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monti
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ciarrocca
authors.forename: Assuntina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Capozzella
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tomei
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016288:Computer Terminals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires