title: [Mental job strain in a university children's hospital--a study on stress experience and the resulting employee health].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of the following survey was to evaluate the mental job strain at an university hospital and its effect on the health of the employees. Furthermore the trigger factors should have been identified and optimized after the survey.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data were collected by an employee survey during November/December of 2006. All employees of the Hospital for Children and Adolescents of the University Leipzig were included. Overall 174 questionnaires were evaluated (response rate 51.5%). As standardized methods the Irritations-Scale of Mohr et al. and the shortform of the Gießener Beschwerdebogen GBB-24 of Brähler et al. were used. In addition a self designed scale for the measurement of strain-experience was applied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More than half of the physicians/psychologists, a quarter of the nursing staff and every tenth of the remaining employees suffered from work related mental stress disorder. Especially physicians and psychologists were additionally affected by psychosomatic symptoms. The main strain was caused by an excessive amount of documentation, the manpower shortage and the lack of appreciation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The occupational groups differ as well in their ways of coping with the daily job strain as in its effects on the mental health. The health effect of the daily strain on physicians and psychologists seems to be age dependent. An urge for intervention can be derived from our results.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Kinder und Jugendliche, Department für Frauen und Kindermedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 20a, Leipzig. andreas.hiemisch@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hiemisch
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kiess
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006306:Health Surveys; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007508:Irritable Mood; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult