Kang Sang-Hee, Boo Yoon-Jung, Lee Ji-Sung, Ji Woong-Bae, Yoo Byoung-Eun, You Ji-Young
Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
J Korean Surg Soc. 2013 May;84(5):261-6. doi: 10.4174/jkss.2013.84.5.261. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
Surgeons serve one of the most challenging and stressful professions. Ineffective control of occupational stress leads to burnout of the surgeon. The aim of this study was to obtain preliminary data on the sources and the degree of stress of surgeons and to determine the feasibility of the survey.
A total of 63 surgeons in our three affiliated hospitals were enrolled in this study. Fifty-five questions were used to assess the demographics, characteristics and Korean occupational stress scale (KOSS), which were prepared and validated by the National Study for Development and Standardization of Occupational Stress.
Forty-seven of the 63 surgeons participated in this study (74.6%). The mean KOSS score of the survey was 50.9 ± 8.55, which was significantly higher than that of other professions (P < 0.01). Drinking and smoking habits were not related to the KOSS score. Doing exercise was related to a low KOSS score in terms of low KOSS total score (P < 0.01). Average duty hours (P < 0.01) and night duty days per week (P = 0.01) were strongly related to higher KOSS in the linear regression analysis.
This is the first study to evaluate job stress of surgeons in Korea. This study showed that Korean Surgeons had higher occupational stress than other Korean professions. A larger study based on this pilot study will help generate objective data for occupational stress of Korean Surgeons by performing a survey of the members of the Korean Surgical Society.
外科医生从事着最具挑战性和压力的职业之一。职业压力控制不当会导致外科医生职业倦怠。本研究旨在获取有关外科医生压力来源和程度的初步数据,并确定该调查的可行性。
我们三家附属医院的63名外科医生参与了本研究。使用55个问题来评估人口统计学、特征以及韩国职业压力量表(KOSS),该量表由国家职业压力发展与标准化研究编制并验证。
63名外科医生中有47名参与了本研究(74.6%)。调查的KOSS平均得分为50.9±8.55,显著高于其他职业(P<0.01)。饮酒和吸烟习惯与KOSS得分无关。就KOSS总分较低而言,进行体育锻炼与较低的KOSS得分相关(P<0.01)。在线性回归分析中,平均值班时长(P<0.01)和每周夜间值班天数(P=0.01)与较高的KOSS密切相关。
这是韩国第一项评估外科医生工作压力的研究。该研究表明,韩国外科医生的职业压力高于韩国其他职业。基于这项初步研究的更大规模研究将通过对韩国外科学会成员进行调查,有助于生成有关韩国外科医生职业压力的客观数据。