title: Applying the revised Chinese Job Content Questionnaire to assess psychosocial work conditions among Taiwan's hospital workers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  For hospital accreditation and health promotion reasons, we examined whether the 22-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) could be applied to evaluate job strain of individual hospital employees and to determine the number of factors extracted from JCQ. Additionally, we developed an Excel module of self-evaluation diagnostic system for consultation with experts.
  
  
  METHODS
  To develop an Excel-based self-evaluation diagnostic system for consultation to experts to make job strain assessment easier and quicker than ever, Rasch rating scale model was used to analyze data from 1,644 hospital employees who enrolled in 2008 for a job strain survey. We determined whether the 22-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) could evaluate job strain of individual employees in work sites. The respective item responding to specific groups' occupational hazards causing job stress was investigated by using skewness coefficient with its 95% CI through item-by-item analyses.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Each of those 22 items on the questionnaire was examined to have five factors. The prevalence rate of Chinese hospital workers with high job strain was 16.5%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Graphical representations of four quadrants, item-by-item bar chart plots and skewness 95% CI comparison generated in Excel can help employers and consultants of an organization focusing on a small number of key areas of concern for each worker in job strain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tsair-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Chien
authors.forename: Wen-Pin
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Hsien-Yi
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sen-Yen
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: Roberto Vasquez
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: How-Ran
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Shih-Chung
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shih-Bin
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Su
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult