The x hospital medical staff opinion about their health and an evaluation of environmental condition

Aim of study: to asses the X hospital medical staff opinion about their health and working environment. Objectives: 1. To identify medical staff opinion about their health. 2. To analyze the medical staff subjective assessment about the environmental conditions. 3. To evaluate the medical staff opinion about the working environment effects on their health, depending on the socio-demographic factors. Methods: the study was performed randomly in one Kaunas hospital in January 2012 - February. The anonymous questionnaire was used in survey. All randomly selected staff were interviewed in 6 departments of Kaunas X hospital. Distributed 173, 148 returned, and for the statistical analysis were used 140 correctly completed questionnaires. The response rate was 80,9%. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 15.0 and Microsoft Excel. Results and conclusions. Only a third of the medical staff involved in the study their current health condition assessed as good. As better health rated more nurses than doctors. With working conditions were satisfied only one-fifth of respondents. The respondents` commonly indicated in their working environment harmful health factors: the work is associated with awkward postures, working environment is contaminated with substances of biological origin, the work is accompanied by emotional stress. Only 5,7% respondents indicated that after work do not feel psychologically tired. More than half (60.6 %) medical staff indicated that some of existing their health disorders link to the work environment. More often women than men related changes in their health and those who had more than 5 years work experience. The common health problems associated with working environment conditions: low back pain, nervousness, headaches, joint pain, pain in the shoulder band, insomnia, increased blood pressure, hand wrist pain