Hospital Safety Climate, Psychosocial Risk Factors and Needlestick Injuries in Japan

Smith, Derek; Muto, Takashi; Sairenchi, Toshimi; Ishikawa, Yumiko; Sayama, Shizue; Yoshida, Akitoshi; Townley-Jones, Maureen

doi:10.2486/indhealth.48.85

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“…Since NAs provide most of the direct care to residents, they are more prone to unsafe care environments such as slips and falls, infectious diseases, chemicals, violence, and assaults. As a key indicator of an organization’s environment, physical safety was usually associated with self-reported injuries in the workplaces (Huang, Ho, Smith, & Chen, 2006; Smith et al, 2010). The effect of physical safety on mental health may be explained by NAs’ feeling threatened when perceiving a lack of control over safety (Huang et al, 2006).…”

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Working Conditions and Mental Health of Nursing Staff in Nursing Homes

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Punnett

Mawn

et al. 2016

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Nursing staff in nursing homes suffer from poor mental health, probably associated with stressful working conditions. Working conditions may distribute differently among nursing assistants, licensed practical nurses, and registered nurses due to their different levels in the organizational hierarchy. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the association between working conditions and mental health among different nursing groups, and examine the potential moderating effect of job group on this association. Self-administered questionnaires were collected with 1,129 nursing staff in 15 for-profit non-unionized nursing homes. Working conditions included both physical and psychosocial domains. Multivariate linear regression modeling found that mental health was associated with different working conditions in different nursing groups: physical safety (β = 2.37, p < 0.05) and work-family conflict (β = –2.44, p < 0.01) in NAs; work-family conflict (β = –4.17, p < 0.01) in LPNs; and physical demands (β = 10.54, p < 0.05) in RNs. Job group did not moderate the association between working conditions and mental health. Future workplace interventions to improve mental health should reach to nursing staff at different levels and consider tailored working condition interventions in different nursing groups.

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Working Conditions and Mental Health of Nursing Staff in Nursing Homes

Zhang

Punnett

Mawn

et al. 2016

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…Two previous meta analyses6, 7 ) reported that burnout correlates to many work-related performance including withdrawal from work (including low performance, high absenteeism, intention to quit jobs, actual turnover, a sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment)7, 8 ) , and adverse psychological health status9 ) . Issues relating to workplace and organizational climate are also known to be important in Japan10 ) .…”

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Organizational climate with gender equity and burnout among university academics in Japan

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We investigated relationships between the perception of organizational climate with gender equity and psychological health among 94 women and 211 men in a Japanese private university in 2015 using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (i.e., personal, work-related and student-related burnout). Perceptions of organizational climate with respect to gender equity were measured with two scales including organizational engagement with a gender equal society in the workplace (consisting of three domains of ‘Women utilization’, ‘Organizational promotion of gender equal society’ and ‘Consultation service’); and a gender inequality in academia scale that had been previously developed. Multivariable linear models demonstrated significant statistical interactions between gender and perceptions of organizational climate; ‘Women utilization’ or lack of ‘Inequality in academia’ alleviated burnout only in women. In consequence of this gender difference, when ‘Women utilization’ was at a lower level, both personal (p=.038) and work-related (p=.010) burnout scores were higher in women, and the student-related burnout score was lower in women when they perceived less inequality in academia than in men (p=.030). As such, it is suggested organizational fairness for gender equity may be a useful tool to help mitigate psychological burnout among women in academia.

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“…The problem of underreporting is particularly investigated in Japan and the rate of underreporting is estimated about of 20% 108,109) . However, a study among Japanese nurses reveal a higher percentage (64.1%) of needlesticks and sharp injuries underreported and shows the importance of interactions between needlesticks, psychosocial factors and safety climate (56% reported much responsibility in their work) 110) . Perception of occupational risk from emerging infectious diseases (avian flu) has been studied in Japanese health care workers.…”

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Biological Risk and Occupational Health

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Many work activities include hazards to workers, and among these biological risk is particularly important, mostly because of different types of exposure, contact with highly dangerous agents, lack of limit values able to compare all exposures, presence of workers with defective immune systems and therefore more susceptible to the risk. Bioaerosols and dust are considered important vehicles of microganisms at workplaces and interaction with other occupational agents is assumed. Moreover, biological risk can be significant in countries with increasing economic development or particular habits and some biological agents are also classified as carcinogenic to human . Specific emerging biological risks have been recently pointed out by Risk Observatory of the European Agency for Safety and Health at work, and we must consider the worker's attitude and behaviour, influenced by his own perception of risk more than his real knowledge, that could over-underestimate the risk itself. Therefore, biological risk at work requires a complex approach in relation to risk assessment and risk management, made more difficult due to the wide variety of biological agents, working environments and working techniques that can determine the exposures.

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Hospital Safety Climate, Psychosocial Risk Factors and Needlestick Injuries in Japan

Cited by 39 publications

References 74 publications

Working Conditions and Mental Health of Nursing Staff in Nursing Homes

Working Conditions and Mental Health of Nursing Staff in Nursing Homes

Organizational climate with gender equity and burnout among university academics in Japan

Biological Risk and Occupational Health

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