Evaluating The Relationship Between Risk Factors and Occupational Hazards of Emergency Department Medical Staff on Their Psychological Health
Ali Vafaei1, Hojjat Derakhshanfar2 and Afshin Saboorizadeh1*1Department of Emergency medicine, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran .
2Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Hossein Hosoital, Shahid Beheshti in Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract: Attention to psychological health of emergency staff is an obvious case, providing psychological health and mental hygiene is inevitable. Accordingly, the present study attempts to consider psychological health and its relation to occupational hazards. The study was performed on 150 emergency department medical staff Loghman Hakim and Imam Hossein Hospitals. Random sampling and data collection instrument was a questionnaire that its validity and reliability were confirmed. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Depending on findings of this study, there is a significant relationship between gender and psychological suffering, awareness of protective measures, vocational training, physical symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, major depression; but there is not a significant relationship between gender and physical damage, understanding the safety of tools and the equipment, and there is not a significant relationship between education and psychological suffering, awareness of protective measures, vocational training, physical symptoms, anxiety, social dysfunction, major depression, and physical damage and understanding the safety of tools and the equipment. Also according to the study findings, there is significant relationship between psychological health indicators and occupational hazards indicators.
Keywords: Occupational hazards; Psychological health; emergency staff Back to TOC