Original Research Article
Year: 2017 | Month: June | Volume: 2 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 11-19
The Relation between Work-Related Psychosocial Factors and Development of Depression among Administrative Staff
Omid Aminian1, Ladan Feghhi1, Akbar Sharifian1, Sahar Eftekhari2*
1MD, 2MD_MPH Occupational Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Corresponding Address: Sahar Eftekhari
ABSTRACT
Background: With the industrialization and improvement of developing countries in controlling of harmful physical, chemical, and biological hazards in the workplace, psychosocial factors are more negatively affecting the workers, workplaces, and society. Job stress can cause health disorders and physical and mental exhaustion followed by anxiety, depression, and cardiovascular or musculoskeletal diseases. Given the role of psychosocial factors as a contributing factor in administrative efficiency and occurrence of occupational accidents, evaluation of these factors among the administrative can be a step towards increased productivity and health.
Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional intervention in which the study population included 310 employees of Tabriz University Health Vice-Chancellor. The required data were collected using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) for measuring work-related psychosocial factors.
Results: Most participants experienced mild depression along with job stress. More than 50% of employees work more than 44 hours a week and women usually work more than men. The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between depression and psychosocial factors. In addition, non-significant difference was found between men and women in terms of psychosocial factors and women had poor condition.
Conclusion: The study findings provide further support to the hypothesis that stress job and poor status of psychosocial factors are associated with depression. Therefore, conduction of the required interventions by improving the psychosocial conditions of the workplace can have considerable positive impacts on the physical and mental health of employees and reduce the likelihood of individual errors.
Key words: Psychosocial factors; Administrative staff, Depression