Work-related stress: volunteer and employee drivers/rescuers

Abstract

Introduction: In the health field, volunteer staff, unpaid and not moved by economic reasons, support more often the workers, sharing the same stressful factors. The study aims to assess subjective stress by comparing 119 volunteer drivers/rescuers and 119 employee drivers/rescuers, belonging to a big Italian healthcare company. Materials and methods: Stress was evaluated through the "questionnaire-indicating tool" validated by HSE (Health and Safety Executive). The research was conducted on a working population of 119 employee rescuers/drivers made comparable as for sex and age (p = 0.8831) to 119 volunteer rescuers/drivers. Results: Our study showed a critical situation in the fields "Demand", "Control" and "Relationship" for the employee rescuers drivers and in the fields