[Investigation on job stress of pediatricians and nurses working in pediatric department].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the occupational stressors and modifiers of pediatricians and nurses in order to find the measurements for control of the job stress.


METHODS
427 pediatricians and nurses working in five hospitals of a city served as subjects. Of them, the staff in section of pharmacy and toll offices in each hospital mentioned above served as control group. The General Job Stress Questionnaire was used to investigate the job stress by self-assessment.


RESULTS
The scores of job demand, job risk, drug using, daily job stress, positive feelings, patient A behavior, physical environment and feeling balance in pediatricians and nurses were higher than those of control group, but the scores of job-person conflict, environmental control, technology utility, mental health, responsibility on things were lower than those of control group (P<0.05). The points of job future, job locus of control, self-esteem, job satisfaction, job load variance, depression in nurses were higher than those of pediatricians, and non-work activities, job risk and daily life stress were lower than those of doctors (P<0.05). The main affecting factors on job strain of pediatric staff included job monotony, higher job demand, more non-work job, lower job control, more job risk, job future ambiguous, poorer social support, lower job locus control and lower self-esteem.


CONCLUSIONS
The stress degree of pediatric staff is higher than that of controls. The pediatricians have more job stress than that of nurses. The main stressors of pediatric staff are job monotony, higher job demand, more non-worker activity, lower job control, higher job risk and ambiguous job future. The main modifiers are good social support, external job locus of control and higher self-esteem.
Yao
San-qiao
SQ
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, North China Coal Medical University, Tangshan, Hebei Province 063000, China.
Tian
Ling
L
Pang
Bao-dong
BD
Bai
Yu-ping
YP
Fan
Xue-yun
XY
Shen
Fu-hai
FH
Jin
Yu-lan
YL
D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D010372:Pediatrics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult