The Interrelationship between Job Stress with the Immune System and Functional Memory of Women Working in Diagnostic Laboratories

Abstract

Job s tress is a psychological s tate that results from a feeling of inconsis tency between capacities and situations and a kind of non-specific response to all factors that can affect the immune sys tem and functional memory. This s tudy was aimed to inves tigate the relationship between job s tress with the immune sys tem and functional memory of women working in diagnos tic laboratories. Materials and Methods: Correlation method was used to evaluate the hypotheses. The s tudy population includes all women employed in medical diagnos tic laboratories affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2016. The sample group consis ted of women range of 35-55 years old, who was working in the laboratory. They were selected randomly from the population. For this purpose, job s tress ques tionnaire of the UK executive Health and Safety, blood serum cortisol tes t and Wechsler Memory Scale were used to collect information. Results: Statis tical analysis showed that job s tress and the immune sys tem of women working in clinical laboratories had the positive and meaningful correlation (r=0.66). The mos t important factors of the minor scale of job s tress were colleagues support and communication, which represnt 29.6% and 23% of the variation of immune sys tem. Functional memory with job s tress also had a positive and meaningful correlation (r=0.57). The communication and control had the mos t share in es tablishing functional memory variation (18.6%). Using the communication as a single tes t, 9.2% of workers had es tablished the variation of functional memory. Conclusion: In general, the job s tress and its sub-scale supporting by friends and control can be predicted the immunological sys tem and functional memory of employed women. It seems that clinicians and professionals could be applying these psychological and physical factors for improving the productivity of employees in clinical laboratory services.

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