Relationship Between Socio-Demographic Features, Work-Related Conditions, and Level of Anxiety Among Turkish Primary Health Care Workers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among Turkish primary health care workers' socio-demographic characteristics, working conditions, and anxiety. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 88 of 103 (85.4%) eligible health care workers from the city of Mugla participating. The participants' average age was 31 years, 85.2% were university graduates, 30.7% were nurses, and 64.8% had been working between 11 and 20 years at the time of the study; 93.6% worked 8 hours each day or less. State anxiety scores for males (p = .016), health care workers age 31 or older (p = .035), nurse participants (p = .043), and individuals who had worked 11 or more years (p = .044) were significantly higher than the rest of the sample; however, trait anxiety scores for participants who did not work overtime and were not scheduled for shift work were significantly higher (p = .033 and p = .004, respectively) than the rest of the sample. According to the logistic regression analysis, risk factors for anxiety included being male and older than 31 years.

Individual Differences in Experiencing Occupational Stress—A Case Study on Nurses of Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH)

“…Although a significant association was found in these researches, there were discrepancies in the level of stress exhibited by male and female nurses. While some concluded that, female nurses rated a higher general stress score (Dab et al, 2015;Biswas & Naidu, 2019;Makhaita et al, 2014;Caruso et al, 2017), others reported a higher stress level in male workers (Picakciefe et al, 2015;Fuente et al, 2018b;Lee & Cho, 2016). Female nurses are more stressed because, a greater number of the population of women and children visit the hospital on a daily basis and require the services of female nurses, who also have family and home responsibilities more than males (Jacobs et al, 2016).…”

“…Dua explains this concept that, older employees have reached a stage where career development is no longer their major concern, and hence a number of job characteristics which may cause stress to younger staff, who have their career ahead of them, do not cause stress to older staff. Metin in his research realized that, older nurses have a high risk of anxiety (Picakciefe et al, 2015). Some researchers did not record any significant association between age and stress (Sabzi et al, 2017;Romano et al, 2015).…”