Personal evaluation of the stress by train machinists and conductors

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OBJECTIVES: The aim of the research was to develop, together with the workers, a methodology and a questionnaire for the identification, detection and assessment of risk factors work related stress, in rail workers.

METHODS: We carried 12 meetings of "homogeneous group" with train drivers and train conductors. This experience allowed the production of an questionnaire to detect and evaluate risk factors. The instrument detects the subjective evaluation workers' levels of anxiety, irritation, strain, fatigue etc. for each hour of the total working time and in the three preceding and following hours of work. Were also administered the test MSP and the survey SHC. Research partecipants were 451 rail workers: 254 train drivers and 197 train conductors (73 Female and 124 Males).

RESULTS: The active workers partecipation of the first phase ("omogeneous group" encounters) has had an important roles for the individuation of specific risk factors working stresses.

CONCLUSIONS: In particular: the levels of anxiety, irritation, strain, fatigue, etc. showed differences in different days and at different hours of the same. The workers showed at the test MSP more elevated values respect to the validation sample test. The result does not appear influenced by socio-demographic variables but, in the train drivers, from service variables (type of driven train, single train driver at driving). The results have shown a strong relationship between stress and health problems. Finally, a brief exploration of the "company's social climate" showed a positive correlation between perceived stress and the mental representations of the company's control system.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:38

Enthalten in:

Giornale italiano di medicina del lavoro ed ergonomia - 38(2017), 4 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 284-294

Sprache:

Italienisch

Weiterer Titel:

La valutazione soggettiva dello stress nei macchinisti e nei capitreno

Beteiligte Personen:

Marrucci, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Ruggieri, Vezio [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

“homogeneous group”
Effort
Fatigue
Journal Article
Occupational stress
Strain
Subjective feeling
Train conductors
Train drivers
Validation Study

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 31.10.2018

Date Revised 10.12.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM285605941