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Original Article Job Stress and Health Status of Circulation Enterprise Workers
Young Ran Han, Hyun Ju Park, Hee Sang Yoon

DOI: https://doi.org/
Published online: December 31, 2008
1Department of Nursing, Dongguk University, Korea. hanyr@dongguk.ac.kr
2Department of workplace healthcare, Dongguk University GyeongJu Hospital, Korea.
3Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Korea.
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PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to measure the level of job stress and health status and find out factors affecting the health status among circulation enterprise workers.
METHOD
This study was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The subjects were 128 workers whose mean age was 33.2 years. Korean occupational stress questionnaire Short Form was used to measure job stress. Todai Heath Index that was made by Aoki in 1977 and translated by Kim(1997) was used to measure the health status.
RESULTS
The total job stress scores of men and woman fell in the lower 50% of Korean workers. Job autonomy and interpersonal conflicts as a subcategories fell in upper level 50% in both men and women and job insecurity fell in the upper level 50% in women. The mean score of health status was 51.47, indicating slightly higher frequency of complains of health symptoms. There was no significant correlation between total job stress and total health status. Finally, factors influencing the health status were organizational system and age.
CONCLUSION
Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to develop comprehensive stress management programs including interventions of personal and organizational levels for promoting workers' health.

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