Background: The recent studies at international level demonstrated that the stress can have a considerable effect in term of workers‟ suffering besides of production and health sector costs. In Italy the work-related stress became an important issue within the work-place safety and health assessment from 2008 (D.Lgs 81/2008). Objectives: The study is aimed at validate a questionnaire for work related stress risks in Italian workers, named P.R.I.S.M.A. an acronym for the five dimensions to assess: Person, Resources, Integration, Safety, Motivation, Environment. Underlying values and principles: Holistic approach to the individual and community health, involving all the potential areas of quality of life and health, specifically the work-site wellness and its health consequences. The study start from setting-based health promotion, but needs intersectorial approache and competencies: psychological, medical and statistical. Knowledge base/ Evidence base: Recently, the specific questionnaires, scales and inventories have been created and applied in different countries with the aim to define risk-indicators. The UK Health Safety Environment Authority identified six factors determining the stress in work experience: demand, control, support, interpersonal relations, role and changes. Context of intervention/project/work: Work-site setting, both public and private sectors, in relation to public health approaches, aims and potential interventions. Methods: The validation consists in psychometric properties and stability evaluation, by means of test-retest design administration. The questionnaire is composed of 100 questions, in form of Likert scales. Two drafts were tested (originallyform and parallel form) differing for general organisation and order of questions, with the aim to verify the true dimensionality of scales regrouping single items. The statistical analyses consist in the multi-items scales dimension evaluation by means of: the Explorative Factorial Analysis (EFA) to detect the different dimensions and corresponding items; the internal consistency analysis (i.e. Cronbach alpha, item-scale correlation) to measure the coherence into different scales; the Confirmatory Factorial Analysis to test the applicability of dimension structure of the questionnaire between different sub-groups of workers (i.e. by gender, by age, by different kind of employment). The test-retest correlation will make us able to assess the stability, one of the reliability components useful to test if the questions are clear, univocal and coherent with the contents. Results and Conclusions: 105 workers, in all, filled the two drafts of questionnaire in the November 2009, 105 at test and 100 at the retest. The administration was anonymous and the linkage of two questionnaire (test-retest) for the each subject has been performed by means of a secret code. The data are inputting in a electronic database and will be analysed with STATA and SPSS software. This experience, starting from a scientific approach, provides useful instruments and methods in the field of work related health determinants, that is one of the major basis of setting-based Health Promotion both in terms of reliable monitoring and in terms of right interventions‟ programming. Disclosure of Interest: None declared

Validation of an italian questionnaire for work related-stress risks assessment: study protocol and preliminary results

SCATIGNA, MARIA;FABIANI, Leila
2010-01-01

Abstract

Background: The recent studies at international level demonstrated that the stress can have a considerable effect in term of workers‟ suffering besides of production and health sector costs. In Italy the work-related stress became an important issue within the work-place safety and health assessment from 2008 (D.Lgs 81/2008). Objectives: The study is aimed at validate a questionnaire for work related stress risks in Italian workers, named P.R.I.S.M.A. an acronym for the five dimensions to assess: Person, Resources, Integration, Safety, Motivation, Environment. Underlying values and principles: Holistic approach to the individual and community health, involving all the potential areas of quality of life and health, specifically the work-site wellness and its health consequences. The study start from setting-based health promotion, but needs intersectorial approache and competencies: psychological, medical and statistical. Knowledge base/ Evidence base: Recently, the specific questionnaires, scales and inventories have been created and applied in different countries with the aim to define risk-indicators. The UK Health Safety Environment Authority identified six factors determining the stress in work experience: demand, control, support, interpersonal relations, role and changes. Context of intervention/project/work: Work-site setting, both public and private sectors, in relation to public health approaches, aims and potential interventions. Methods: The validation consists in psychometric properties and stability evaluation, by means of test-retest design administration. The questionnaire is composed of 100 questions, in form of Likert scales. Two drafts were tested (originallyform and parallel form) differing for general organisation and order of questions, with the aim to verify the true dimensionality of scales regrouping single items. The statistical analyses consist in the multi-items scales dimension evaluation by means of: the Explorative Factorial Analysis (EFA) to detect the different dimensions and corresponding items; the internal consistency analysis (i.e. Cronbach alpha, item-scale correlation) to measure the coherence into different scales; the Confirmatory Factorial Analysis to test the applicability of dimension structure of the questionnaire between different sub-groups of workers (i.e. by gender, by age, by different kind of employment). The test-retest correlation will make us able to assess the stability, one of the reliability components useful to test if the questions are clear, univocal and coherent with the contents. Results and Conclusions: 105 workers, in all, filled the two drafts of questionnaire in the November 2009, 105 at test and 100 at the retest. The administration was anonymous and the linkage of two questionnaire (test-retest) for the each subject has been performed by means of a secret code. The data are inputting in a electronic database and will be analysed with STATA and SPSS software. This experience, starting from a scientific approach, provides useful instruments and methods in the field of work related health determinants, that is one of the major basis of setting-based Health Promotion both in terms of reliable monitoring and in terms of right interventions‟ programming. Disclosure of Interest: None declared
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