Job stress among resident physicians in Tanta University Hospitals, Egypt
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Job stress among resident physicians in Tanta University Hospitals, Egypt Nadira Mansour Hassan 1 & Mira M. Abu-Elenin 1 & Rania M. Elsallamy 2 & Ibrahim A. Kabbash 1 Received: 10 July 2019 / Accepted: 28 February 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Resident physicians are the first-line health service providers, subjected to prolonged working hours, sleep deprivation and high job demands. Work stress causes reduction in productivity, suboptimal patient care and medical errors. To determine the level of stress among residents and associated factors and stressors. A cross-sectional study at Tanta University Hospitals recruited residents (n = 278), between December 2016 and February 2017. Job stress was assessed using a predesigned questionnaire. The mean age was 26.53 ± 1.35, and 46.4% were males. The majority reported they work more than 48 h/week, do not get a break during work and have a night shift periodically (87%, 83.1% and 94.2%, respectively). Only 4 (1.4%) had low stress while 169 (60.8%) had moderate and 105 (37.8%) had high stress. The study revealed a statistically significant association between high level of stress and being a single resident (p = 0.017), belonging to surgical departments (p = 0.001) and an absence of break during working hours (p = 0.001). The prime sources of stress were underpayment for the job (87.4%), serving to large number of patients (85.2%), disruption of home life due to long hours at work (83.9%), conflict of responsibilities (81.3) and complying with increasing bureaucratic procedures (78.8%) besides no available fund for research (74.8%). Medical residents experienced moderate to high level of job stress. Thus, there is a need for stress management programs during residency training period taking in consideration main sources of stress. Keywords Job stress . Residents . Physicians . Hospitals . Egypt
Introduction Occupational stress is a psychological, behavioural and physical disorder that people may experience on a daily basis due to over-increasing demands in their occupations (West et al. 2002). Physicians experience relatively high levels of occupational stress compared to other professionals (Rashid and Talib 2015). On the other hand, in a physician’s career, residency is a transitional phase that forms the future physicians and that can strongly influence their behaviours. This transitional phase is very stressful Responsible Editor: Philippe Garrigues * Nadira Mansour Hassan [email protected] 1
Public Health & Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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Occupational Medicine in Public Health & Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
due to the presence of many stressors such as shifting from being a medical student to being a physician with numerous responsibilities, job instability and continuous contact with diseases, sufferings, distress and death (Kim et al. 2015; Rashid and Tal
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