title: [Work-related stress in the indoor environment: how might we assess it?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The periodic medical examination at the workplace should be an opportunity to monitor the health of workers. Psychological well-being and work-related stress are part of health, and therefore the occupational physician is required to control these parameters during his examinations.
  
  
  METHODS
  29 companies with a total of 4069 workers were monitored by the Italian version of the questionnaire on air quality MMO40/IAQ, which contains a section on work-related stress based on the demand/control/support model of Karasek, and by Goldberg's scales of anxiety and depression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Work-related stress was significantly correlated with the number of symptoms reported by workers (p < 0.001) and with levels of anxiety and depression (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite its extreme simplicity, the scale of stress included in the questionnaire allows effective monitoring of the work-related stress.
authors: Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Università, Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy. nicolamagnavita@gmail.com
authors: Nicola
authors: N
authors: Magnavita
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000465:Algorithms; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*