Department of Nursing, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.
J Ment Health. 2011 Apr;20(2):165-73. doi: 10.3109/09638237.2011.556160.
Dealing with work related stress is a declared priority of European Union mental health policy. A particularly under-researched sector in this regard is the community vocational support sector for people with mental health and intellectual disability problems.
To report on the organisational profile of the vocational support and rehabilitation sector for people with mental health and intellectual disabilities as this relates to occupational stress, in five European countries (Austria, Ireland, Italy, Romania and UK).
A sector profile questionnaire was distributed to representative organisations in five countries and a short face-to-face survey was conducted with 25 local managers (five from each country) to draw up a profile and facilitate a comparative description and analysis.
It was found that there is no national and European data collected at any level in this sector upon which to base effective policy interventions to combat occupational stress specific to professionals working in this sector. Results indicate that the sector in a number of the countries sampled does not have effective mechanisms in place to deal with occupational stress.
Developing effective transnational occupational stress management policy that supports staff working in this sector and measuring its success is greatly impaired by a failure to effectively define the purpose of the sector and collect and collate national data to support it.
应对与工作相关的压力是欧盟心理健康政策的一个既定优先事项。在这方面，一个特别缺乏研究的领域是为有心理健康和智力残疾问题的人提供社区职业支持的部门。
报告与职业压力相关的精神健康和智力残疾人士职业支持和康复部门的组织概况，该部门涉及五个欧洲国家（奥地利、爱尔兰、意大利、罗马尼亚和英国）。
向五个国家的代表性组织分发了一份部门概况调查问卷，并对 25 名当地管理人员（每个国家 5 名）进行了简短的面对面调查，以制定概况并促进比较描述和分析。
发现该部门在任何层面都没有收集到针对该部门专业人员的特定职业压力的国家和欧洲数据，因此无法制定有效的政策干预措施来应对职业压力。结果表明，在所抽取的一些国家中，该部门没有有效的机制来应对职业压力。
制定有效的跨国职业压力管理政策，为该部门的工作人员提供支持，并衡量其成功，由于未能有效界定该部门的目的以及收集和整理支持该部门的数据，这一工作受到了极大的阻碍。
