title: [Work-related stress risk assessment in a home care agency].
abstract: The workload, the quality of professional relationships and emotional involvement have a significant impact on distress and burnout in health care-workers; this impact has an hight variability among the different environments and different care facilities (hospital, erderly nursing homes, home care). The risk assessment of work-related stress performed in 2010 in a homecare agency highlighted organizational problems related to the content/context of work and risk factors for health and safety. High turn-over is evidenced as critical among the "sentinel events". The level of job-strain was moderate, even if some critical issues were evidenced especially in the group of physiotherapists; nurses were configured as a homogeneous group with a low level of job-strain. In informative meetings the workers identified the discomfort related to the time for transferring patients from their homes in a high-traffic metropolitan area was identified as the most critical aspect.
authors: Unità di Medicina Occupazionale ed Ambientale, Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo di Monza, Italy. r.latocca@hsgerardo.org
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Latocca
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Riva
authors: M
authors: M
authors: D'Orso
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Ploia
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Rocca
authors: G
authors: G
authors: De Vito
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Cesana
mesh_terms: D006282:Health Personnel; D018574:Home Care Agencies; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*