Healthcare workers in hospitals are exposed to high levels of occupational stress resulting from heavy workload, extended working hours and high levels of time pressure.

1. INVESTIGATION OF SUBCATEGORIES ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL OF
JUNG-KYU SO, JUNG-SUK KIM, YOUNG-HEE LEE, DAE-JUNG KIM, CHANG-EUN PARK
Presented by:
JHAYZELA P. JOCSON
BMLS-1B
JOB STRESS IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST

2. Key Words
Medical technologist
Organizations
Reward
Stress

3. JOB
According to the US
National Institute for
Occupational Safety
and Health
“job stress can be defined as the
harmful physical and emotional
responses that occur when the
requirements of a job do not
match the capabilities, resources,
or needs of a worker.”
STRESS

4. JOB STRESS IN HEALTHCARE WORKERS
Healthcare workers in hospitals are exposed to high levels of
occupational stress resulting from heavy workload, extended working
hours and high levels of time pressure.
Hospital staff members, including physicians and nurses, have higher
risk of suffering from depressive disorders compared to the general
population

5. The experimental group
comprised of 193 medical
technologists working in
Gyeonggi, South Korea.

6. JOB STRESS SUBCATEGORIES
CATEGORIES MEAN
Job Insecurity 64.42
Organizational System 52.46
Lack of Reward 52.30
Physical Environment 51.18
Job Demand 49.57
Insufficient Job Control 48.43
Interpersonal Conflict 39.78
Occupational Climate 39.77
It is recommended that those
in high-stress job group
increase physical activity and
reduce job insecurity to
improve health.

7. FACTORS THAT ARE
IMPORTANT FOR
HIGH WORK ABILITY
- Clear Work Tasks
- Positive Feedback
- Physically Non-strenuous Work
- Self-rated Health And
- Leisure Time
- Salary

8. CONCLUSION
Job stress are important factors related to medical technologist. the
results suggest that it would be necessary to develop various programs
to improve health-promoting behavior and job satisfaction. to reduce
job stress, to enhance job satisfaction of medical technologist and to
solve health conditions and efforts of health, it is necessary to develop
and apply plans for administrative support and arbitration programs.
Educational programs should be devised to promote healthy lifestyle
and also to achieve early detection and appropriate intervention.

9. REFERENCE
Jung-Kyu So, Jung-Suk Kim, Young-Hee Lee, Dae-Jung Kim, Chang-Eun
Park (2017) Investigation Of Subcategories According To The Level Of
Job Stress In Medical Technologist
https://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO201713647760602.page

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