Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Therapeutic Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, 7 York Rd., Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Executive Office, Hartwell Wing, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21 8AL, UK.
Occup Ther Int. 2024 Oct 23;2024:3189429. doi: 10.1155/2024/3189429. eCollection 2024.
Poor fit between the work environment and work expectations is associated with high levels of workplace-related stress. Work stress in occupational therapy has been attributed to the nature of the profession and various other workplace-related factors. Workplace-related stress leading to burnout has been found to be higher in early career occupational therapists with less than 5 years of experience. This study explored workplace factors that result in poor person-work environment fit in six work-life areas in South African early career occupational therapists. A descriptive electronic survey design was used to access a sample of South African 261 occupational therapists with 2-5 years of work experience. The Area of Work-Life Survey (AWS) considers six work-life areas: control, workload, community, rewards, values, and fairness, which were used to collect data. Data were analysed to determine low, moderate, and high work environment fit for workplace factors including employment setting, field of practice, years' experience, time with current organization, and hours worked. Of the six work-life areas, only the scores for workload fell below the norm for the respondents. All six work-life areas were impacted by employment settings, with respondents in public health hospitals and clinics indicating significantly low person-environment fit in most areas. Respondents in physical rehabilitation had a significantly low fit for workload, as did years of experience, length of time with organization, and hours worked. Fairness had a low fit for physical rehabilitation and medicolegal fields of practice. Workload impacted workplace-related stress in respondents with scores below the norm on the AWS for this work-life area. Although some work-related factors affected workplace-related stress, the overall scores for the other work-life areas were above the norm, with only respondents in public service settings and in the field of physical rehabilitation reporting low work environment fit.
工作环境与工作期望不匹配与高水平的工作场所相关压力有关。职业治疗中的工作压力归因于该专业的性质和各种其他工作场所相关因素。工作场所相关压力导致职业倦怠在工作经验不足 5 年的早期职业治疗师中更为常见。本研究探讨了导致南非早期职业治疗师在六个工作生活领域中人与工作环境不匹配的工作场所因素。使用描述性电子调查设计来访问有 2-5 年工作经验的 261 名南非职业治疗师样本。工作生活领域调查（AWS）考虑了六个工作生活领域：控制、工作量、社区、奖励、价值观和公平，用于收集数据。对数据进行分析，以确定工作场所因素的低、中、高工作环境契合度，包括就业环境、实践领域、工作年限、与当前组织的合作时间和工作时间。在六个工作生活领域中，只有工作量的分数低于受访者的标准。所有六个工作生活领域都受到就业环境的影响，在公共卫生医院和诊所工作的受访者在大多数领域的人与环境契合度明显较低。在物理康复领域工作的受访者，以及工作年限、与组织合作的时间和工作时间，其工作量的契合度较低。公平在物理康复和医疗法律实践领域的契合度较低。在 AWS 得分低于该工作生活领域标准的受访者中，工作量对工作场所相关压力有影响。尽管一些工作相关因素会影响工作场所相关压力，但其他工作生活领域的总体得分高于标准，只有在公共服务环境中和在物理康复领域工作的受访者报告工作环境契合度较低。
