Division of Clinical Epidemiology, ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, India.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India.
Ind Health. 2023 Jun 3;61(3):184-194. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2022-0019. Epub 2023 Mar 7.
An imbalance in the key organizational psychology constructs viz. "Workload", "Reward", "Community", "Control", "Values" and "Fairness" are potential factors leading to negative occupational mental health, i.e. burnout. Burnout, a psychological syndrome is the combination of emotional exhaustion, sense of reduced compassion and accomplishment. To note, the concept of occupational mental health in a nation with second largest workforce is nascent. Further, the utility of existing western tools in Indian subcontinent is limited by culturally inappropriateness, patented, less comprehensible and other factors. Present study attempted to develop tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace areas. Conventional steps involved in psychological tool development, viz. construct identification, drafting of pertinent questions, content validation, field testing of questions and others were adopted. After series of steps, tools for screening occupational mental health and key constructs influencing mental health at workplace (workplace assessment) were developed. The screening tools exhibited adequate test-retest reliability, internal consistency/reliability (cronbach's α>0.73) and correlation (correlation coefficient >0.6) with the general mental health in larger evaluation of 153 consenting workers. The proposed simple and easy to administer tool requires development of normative scores thereby aiding early diagnosis and management of those requiring intervention.
关键组织心理学结构（即“工作量”、“奖励”、“社区”、“控制”、“价值观”和“公平”）的不平衡是导致负面职业心理健康（即倦怠）的潜在因素。倦怠是一种心理综合征，由情绪枯竭、同情心和成就感降低组成。需要注意的是，在拥有第二大劳动力的国家，职业心理健康的概念还处于起步阶段。此外，现有的西方工具在印度次大陆的应用受到文化不适宜性、专利、理解性差等因素的限制。本研究试图开发用于筛查职业心理健康和工作场所领域的工具。采用了心理工具开发的常规步骤，即确定结构、起草相关问题、内容验证、问题现场测试等。经过一系列步骤，开发了用于筛查职业心理健康和影响工作场所心理健康的关键结构的工具（工作场所评估）。筛查工具与一般心理健康的测试重测信度、内部一致性/可靠性（克朗巴赫α>0.73）和相关性（相关系数>0.6）在对 153 名同意参与的工人的更大评估中表现出足够的相关性。拟议的简单易用的工具需要开发规范分数，从而有助于对需要干预的人员进行早期诊断和管理。
