Mental Health Disorders in Healthcare Workers and the Associations with Psychosocial Work Conditions
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
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Dear Colleagues,
The work environment can be considered one of the main determining factors that can influence the mental health of workers, especially as regards the structural and organisational conditions to which the worker is subjected. This work environment has positive effects when work provides satisfaction and well-being or negative effects provoked by situations of stress, inadequate working patterns and schedules, possible situations of abuse and/or harassment, etc., which may contribute to the appearance of alterations in the mental health of the worker.
Healthcare workers are exposed to a multitude of adverse risks and working conditions in the exercise of their duties, such as staff shortages, excessive workloads, night shifts, long work shifts, a high number of hours worked per week, a high frequency of rotation between services, and high psychological burden, due to the management of critical situations, among others. All these working conditions make the work carried out by healthcare workers particularly stressful and diverse, in which risks of various kinds coexist where psychosocial risk factors are the most frequent and, if appropriate measures are not taken or adequate work resources do not exist, can, thus, lead to manifestations of high levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia, emotional overload, fatigue, exhaustion, and loss of work engagement, mainly as a result of the nature of their work and the place where they perform their work.
Dr. Juan Jesús García-Iglesias
Dr. Cristina S. Barroso
Dr. Maria do Rosário de Jesus Martins
Prof. Dr. Juan Gómez-Salgado
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Keywords
- health personnel
- mental health disorders
- risk factors
- psychological distress
- burnout
- anxiety
- job demands–resources model
- work conditions
- occupational health
- public health
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