2018 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 98-102
The psychological vital sign (PVS© Mie-chuo MC） constituted with a self-regulation inventory (SSI), profile of mood states, a monitor-blunter style scale and a stress degree was used as indices to evaluate an individual psychological health state. On the other hand, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare put enterprises employed over 50 employees under an obligation to recommend using a simplified questionnaire for occupational stress. In the present study, the PVS self-check system was developed by modifying a profile of mood states to use this simplified questionnaire for occupational stress. Then seven hundred seventy-eight employees in the Mie-chuo Medical Center were inquired their mental health state in November 2016.
The results were separately analyzed to define the characteristics in 4 divisions, namely doctor, nursing, other medical staff and secretariat divisions by using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple comparison. Nursing division was characterized by the high social support and the low stress in working environment, however, the psychological quantitative and qualitative burden of work imposed on them were suspected to co-relate with the subjective physical sign, such as irritability, tiredness, anxiety and depressive state. A simplified questionnaire for occupational stress is better to judge the strength of stress, however, in the view of improvement of working environment, PVS including SSI might be one of the feasible self-check questionnaires providing with coping behavior.
