title: Justice at work and psychiatric morbidity among the personnel of an Italian hospital.
abstract: This study evaluated the association between justice in the workplace (and other psychosocial factors) and mental health among healthcare professionals. It was conducted in a sample of hospital employees in Italy. The prevalence of mental disorders was assessed and the relationships between having a disorder and the level of perceived justice, job control and effort-reward imbalance were investigated. Psychiatric morbidity among professionals with higher perceived justice were 0.3-0.9 times lower than those among those with lower perceived justice. This finding suggests that improving fairness at work does matter for disease prevention and mental health promotion policy.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Unit, National Centre of Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Italian National Institute of Health, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome, Italy. antonella.gigantesco@iss.it
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gigantesco
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D009017:Morbidity; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D012201:Reward; D012307:Risk Factors; D012935:Social Justice; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*