Pilgård Göran, Söderfeldt Björn, Hjalmers Karin, Rosenquist Jan
Department of Oral Public Health, Faculty of Odontology, Malmö University, Sweden.
Swed Dent J. 2008;32(1):27-34.
The aims of this study were to describe how the employees of OMFS clinics in Sweden perceive their health, to compare with female unpromoted general practice dentists and other human service groups and to explore the dimensionality of the health measure. Data were collected by way of a questionnaire with 67 questions, related to quality management at the clinic, working situation, questions about the content of "good work", the connection between physical environment and health, emphasis on physical environment. 22 clinics with 297 employees responded, 65% of the clinics and 86% of the employees. The results showed that employees of OMFS clinics in Sweden perceived their health as rather problematic. In comparison, the present study group placed itself between general practice dentists and other human service groups as to their health. Three factors explained more than half of the variance of symptoms. They were interpreted as (1) psychosomatic troubles, (2) somatic troubles, and (3) muscle and joint troubles. These factors were almost the same as previously reported, confirming the basic dimensionality of the question battery. This study has shown that OMFS employees are feeling unhealthy, but no worse than other high-risk-groups in human service working situation and better than female general practice dentists. The women among OMFS employees felt worse than the men. Three factors of symptoms could be established, i.e. psychosomatic troubles, somatic troubles, and muscle and joint troubles.
本研究的目的是描述瑞典口腔颌面外科（OMFS）诊所的员工如何看待他们的健康状况，与未获晋升的女性全科牙医及其他人类服务群体进行比较，并探究健康测量的维度。通过一份包含67个问题的问卷收集数据，这些问题涉及诊所的质量管理、工作状况、关于“优质工作”内容的问题、物理环境与健康的关联以及对物理环境的重视程度。22家诊所的297名员工做出了回应，占诊所的65%和员工的86%。结果显示，瑞典OMFS诊所的员工认为他们的健康状况存在较大问题。相比之下，在健康方面，本研究组介于全科牙医和其他人类服务群体之间。三个因素解释了超过一半的症状差异。它们被解释为：（1）身心问题，（2）躯体问题，（3）肌肉和关节问题。这些因素与先前报告的几乎相同，证实了问卷的基本维度。本研究表明，OMFS员工感觉不健康，但并不比人类服务工作环境中的其他高风险群体更差，且比女性全科牙医情况更好。OMFS员工中的女性感觉比男性更差。可以确定症状的三个因素，即身心问题、躯体问题和肌肉与关节问题。
