OBJECTIVES To measure and establish a baseline assessment of the patient safety culture in the Palestinian hospitals. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study using the Arabic version of the Safety Attitude Questionnaire (Short Form 2006). PARTICIPANTS A total of 339 nurses and physicians returned the questionnaire out of 370 achieving a response rate of 91.6%. SETTING Four public gener...

This study investigated the cross-sectional association of job demands (i.e., psychological demands) and job resources (i.e., decision latitude, supervisor support, co-worker support, and extrinsic reward) with job performance. A total of 1,198 workers (458 males and 740 females) from a manufacturing company in Japan completed a self-administered questionnaire that included the Job Content Ques...

the present study is to investigate and rank the types of personnel organizational commitment viewing demographic structure.  the research method is descriptive based onresearch planning, correlation in terms of method, and practical in terms of the goal. the statistical population includes 160 staffs and managers and based on decision-making table of krejcie and morgan containing 113 people. d...

in today’s competitive world employees with engagement can interact with their job and have desirable job performance. since improvement of employees’ job performance is the key of efficiency in all levels of organization, investigation of variables leading to the improvement of job performance is of great importance. thus the purpose of the present research is to analyze the effect of employee...

abstract aim and background: the key purpose of the study was to investigation the relationship of job burnout and some of job variables like type and level of responsibility, service and mangement experiences. method and materials: this descriptive study was conducted on 245 managers and vice-chancellors randomly selected by the cluster-sampling technique. they were assessed by job burnout que...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the relation between psychosocial work characteristics and changes in health related quality of life over four years in a cohort of working women in the United States. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS 21 290 female registered nurses who completed the Karasek's job content questionnaire and a modified version of the sh...

Using a job stress questionnaire a negative correlation was found between job stress and physical fitness and a positive one with Type A behaviour. No correlation was found between job stress and obesity, nutritional patterns or physical activity. Subjects with angina had higher scores on the job stress questionnaire than normal controls. The job stress score was not predictive of future corona...

BACKGROUND It is widely recognized and accepted that job strain adversely impacts the workforce. Individual responses to stressful situations can vary greatly and it has been shown that certain people are more likely to experience high levels of stress in their job than others. Studies highlighted that there can be age differences in job strain perception. METHODS Cross-sectional postal surve...

BACKGROUND In the past decade, the changing labor market seems to have rejected the traditional standards employment and has begun to support a variety of non-standard forms of work in their place. The purpose of our study was to compare the degree of job stress, sources of job stress, and association of high job stress with health among permanent and fixed-term workers. METHODS Our study sub...

objective: this research aims to investigate the correlation between ergonomics conditions and job burnout among librarians in the university of isfahan. methodology: the research method is descriptive correlation study. the research data was collected by maslash burnout inventory for determining job burnout among librarians and checklist of standards and principles of ergonomics for evaluation...