A Descriptive Study of Work Stress and Productivity of Faculties in Nigerian Federal University | Chapter 02 | New Ideas Concerning Arts and Social Studies Vol. 6

 

Stress is an intrinsic aspect of human existence, influencing individuals of all backgrounds, genders, social standings, and age demographics. Despite the critical roles played by lecturers and medical doctors in society, the impact of stress on their well-being and job performance remains a significant concern. Understanding the sources of stress, its manifestations, and effective management strategies for these professionals is essential for their overall health and the quality of service they provide. This research examined the impact of occupational stress on the productivity of lecturers and medical practitioners in Nigerian federal universities and teaching hospitals. This study investigated the main reasons, signs, and ways these professionals deal with stress. The study used a descriptive survey to elicit information from 375 participants. Of these, 266 were Lecturers, and 109 were doctors selected using proportional sampling from a population of 5,917 across four universities and their affiliated teaching hospitals in Abuja, Ibadan, Enugu, and Zaria. A structured questionnaire called the Influence of Work-Stress on the Productivity of Lecturers and Medical Doctors (IWSPLMDQ) was used. It was validated by experts and yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.82 and was employed for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages, and means. The results showed that the most significant sources of stress were excessive workload, long working hours, inadequate time for research or patient care, and difficulty balancing professional and family responsibilities, with an overall sectional mean of 2.81. The most common signs of stress were being tired, feeling weak, being cranky, and having mood swings and sadness (sectional mean = 2.60). The highlighted stressors included work overload, long hours, not enough time for research, trouble balancing work and personal life, and worries about the future. Stress showed itself in different ways, influencing the physical, mental, and behavioural parts of both groups. The most common ways to deal with stress were to sleep or rest in a quiet place, listen to music, work out often, and live a healthy life (sectional mean = 2.61). The study found that university professors and medical doctors often have a lot of stress at work, which makes them less healthy and less productive. The study recommends that to reduce stress, get healthier, and do better at work by take part in structured wellness programs, an institutional counselling programme, and reduce workload.

 

Author(s) Details :-

 

Olubunmi Iyabode OJJI
Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.

 

Patricia Ogochukwu OJIAH
Department of Guidance and Counselling, Faculty of Education University of Abuja, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.

 

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Occupational Stress and Health Impacts Among Public Sector Bus Drivers: A Cross-sectional Study | Book Publisher International

Introduction: Occupational stress refers to the pressure that individual workers feel around their work conditions. It's a significant factor that affects individuals, groups, and communities. Occupational stress is an important health issue in a variety of occupations and has been associated with health problems and risk-taking behaviours. Drivers, in particular bus drivers, have very stressful jobs as they work shifts for long hours creating exposure to unhealthy levels of pollutants and a higher rate of sickness absenteeism. The purpose of the study is to determine the prevalence and associated factors of occupational stress among Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus drivers in Kolar, Karnataka.

Objectives: Among KSRTC bus drivers in Kolar.

1.To determine the stress level in occupation among KSRTC bus drivers.

2.To determine association between the stress and occupation-related factors.

3.To assess the health status among KSRTC drivers.

Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from September 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, at the KSRTC depot in Kolar, which serves both urban and rural areas. The depot employs 729 staff, including bus drivers, conductors, mechanics, housekeeping, and administrative staff. Out of 654 bus drivers, a representative sample of 235 was selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected through a list of permanently employed staff from the depot's authority to ensure accuracy and relevance.

Results: The study among KSRTC bus drivers in Kolar found that 65% experienced moderate to severe stress. Significant factors associated with occupational stress included urban residency, divorce, chronic alcohol consumption, current tobacco chewing, hypertension, higher BMI, long working hours, and high waist-hip ratio. Binary logistic regression revealed significant associations between these variables with stress levels. We found that urban residents had significantly higher odds of experiencing stress compared to rural residents (OR=1.27, p=0.03). Divorced individuals and chronic alcoholics also showed higher odds of stress (OR=1.24, p=0.05 and OR=1.33, p=0.04, respectively). Significant associations were identified between stress and hypertension (OR=1.40, p=0.01), obesity (OR=1.30, p=0.03), morbid obesity (OR=1.47, p=0.01), high-risk waist-hip ratios (OR=1.42, p=0.01), and longer working hours (>12 hours, OR=1.30, p=0.03). Health assessments revealed a high prevalence of hypertension and obesity.

Conclusion: The study highlights the alarming prevalence of occupational stress among KSRTC bus drivers in Kolar, with 65% experiencing moderate to severe stress. Factors such as urban residency, lifestyle habits, and physiological parameters were found to significantly contribute to this stress burden. These results highlight the importance of population-specific health promotion programmes and policy amendments to improve the health of essential workers and road safety in general.

 

Author (s) Details

Varun R
epartment of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar, Karnataka, India.

 

Pradeep T.S.
Department of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar, Karnataka, India.

 

Muninarayana C.
Department of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar, Karnataka, India.

 

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Challenges Healthcare Professionals Face in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi, India | Chapter 4 | Advancement and New Understanding in Medical Science Vol. 6

India is a developing nation with the second largest population in the world and the healthcare system in India still growing. Violence against healthcare professionals or other medical fraternities hardly made any news or was hardly discussed a few years back in India. Healthcare and related professions have been identified as occupations associated with high levels of risk and stress. This has brought hazardous impacts not only on healthcare professionals' mental and physical health but also on their abilities to cope with rising demands on the job. The study was done in a tertiary care corporate hospital in New Delhi, India. All the data was collected from 157 healthcare personnel (doctors, nurses and allied staff). A structured questionnaire was made and given to the participants to record their responses online or in person. The majority of the participants responded that they have faced angry/shouting and verbal abuse from patients/ attendants. There are many reports of violence against doctors, which can sometimes be grievous and also fatal all across the world and also from our Indian subcontinent too. This study article focuses on whether the healthcare professionals in the tertiary care hospital feel safe in their workplace, the burden they face on the work front and the knowledge of healthcare professionals about the Indian Epidemic Act Ordinance 2020. This study also highlights the work-related stress that is faced by all healthcare professionals. The professionals must train himself/herself in anxiety alleviation techniques, reduce waiting hours to see patients, explain the condition of the patient to the attendant individually to avoid any conflict at later stages, keep in mind the financial status of the patients, and take help from seniors whenever needed.

Author(s) Details:

Surjeet Acharya,
Max Super Speciality Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi, India.

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Effects of Occupational Stress and Burnout on Turnover Intentions among Teachers: A Case Study from Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana | Chapter 1 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 3

This stage focuses on stress, burnout, job unhappiness and turnover inside the Ghanaian education sector, by fact-finding the impact of occupational stress and exhaustion on turnover intentions between senior high school coaches in the cape coast metropolis, Ghana. Task Stress is considered as a stimulator of change intentions with the employees of any arranging. As the teachers concern a noble profession i.e. declaration of the Prophets, therefore the researchers, in order to validate this supposition, conducted this explanatory, co-relational and cross-localized study for determining the relationship middle from two points job stress and change intentions among various categories of coaches.The study setting was Cape Coast Downtown in the Central Region of Ghana. Bill Coast is the capital of the Central Domain of Ghana and it is referred to as the citadel of instruction. The study employed the explanatory survey design and made use of both explanatory and inferential dossier analysis approaches.  Teachers from the fifteen grades 9-12 schools in the Ghanaian Central Region's Ness Coast city made up the public. A multi-stage sampling technique was secondhand in the investigation. So that incorporate all of the teachers from the ten schools that were preferred, the study also secondhand a census method.The study disclosed that occupational stress and burn out had meaningful impact on change intention among Secondary school teachers in Headland Coast Metropolis. F (2, 517) = 9.898, p < 0.05. Also, the results of the study recorded that generally task dissatisfaction had statistically significant affect turnover intention of the parties. F (1, 518) = 82.163 p < 0.05. The result of the study implies that as instructors continuously experience exhaustion, they develop contending strategies that help them to lighten job stress and still continue activity with their teaching task.It was suggested that administrators of senior high schools endure be able to plan adept initiatives such stick professional development programs, motivational talks, and workshops on stress management and guide awareness-lifting. Employers provide sufficient support for the prosperity and working environment of coaches. Programs like workshops, in-help training, and a remunerating package bear be continuously devised by schools to encourage and support teachers to wait in their positions despite ultimate difficult obstacles they can encounter.

Author(s) Details:

Anthony Kwabena Nkyi,
Department of Guidance and Counselling, College of Education Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Dominic Owusu,
Department of Guidance and Counselling, College of Education Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Occupational Stress, Social Relationships at the Workplace, Psychological Wellbeing and Coping Strategies of Nurses and Midwives: A Study in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region of Ghana | Book Publisher International

 Occupational stress, social interactions at work, psychological well-being, and coping methods of nurses and midwives in Ghana's Catholic Health Service Western Region were explored in this study. The study used a quantitative research approach and followed a positivist research ethic. The investigation was conducted using a descriptive cross-sectional study design. A total of 300 nurses and midwives (nurses = 237; midwives = 63) were chosen from four Catholic hospitals in Ghana's Western Region. A questionnaire based on Nurses' Occupational Stress Scale was used to collect information from participants, with Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWB 18 items) used to measure psychological wellbeing, the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI-SF, 1989) used to measure the type of coping strategies used, and the Worker Relationship Scale developed by Biggs, Swailes, and Baker (2016) used to measure the level of social relations. The one-sample t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficients, one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, regression, t-test, and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The study found that nurses and midwives in the Western Region of the Catholic Health Service have significantly higher levels of stress, positive psychological wellness, and favourable work-related social relationships. Occupational stress was also found to be marginally and weakly linked to psychological well-being and workplace social interactions in the study. According to the findings, nurses and midwives employed both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping techniques in dealing with occupational stress, however problem-focused coping strategies were utilised more frequently. Furthermore, the findings of the study revealed that psychological well-being and social ties at work have a substantial impact on nurses' and midwives' experiences of occupational stress. Occupational stress has a substantial impact on the psychological well-being of nurses and midwives, according to the findings. It was suggested that the Ministry of Health hire Counselling Psychologists for all Ghanaian health institutions in order to satisfy the counselling needs of nurses and midwives, as well as other health workers in general. In addition, the Ministry of Health and its agencies should dispatch sufficient nurses and midwives to areas where they are most needed and guarantee that they report to those locations. Workshops on coping methods, social interactions, and psychological well-being will be offered to nurses and midwives, as well as ongoing professional development.

Author(s) Details

Eric Kwasi Elliason
Department of Counselling and Wellbeing, Modal College, Sogakope, Ghana.

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Investigating the Perceptions of Primary Education Teachers’ Regarding the Professional Burnout Syndrome and the Role of the School Principal | Chapter 1 | Current Research in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 1

 Occupational stress among school teachers captivated scholars in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly because of its effects on their mental and physical health, and researchers sought to better understand how to manage it. It was emphasised that because teachers have taken on a humanitarian role, they face stressful situations that lead to tiredness at work. The goal of the study was to look into primary school teachers' perspectives of what causes burnout syndrome, as well as the efforts taken by the principal to deal with it. The study's goal was to find out how instructors felt about their burnout and their principal's attitude, as well as how his or her leadership contributed to school effectiveness. An anonymous self-completed questionnaire was used in the study, which took place between February and April 2019. All teachers in school units, regardless of their specialisation, were chosen from schools in the Kavala Regional Unit in Greece. Each unit was given a random number, which was subsequently recorded in a statistical table. Thirty numbers were chosen at random from this table to symbolise thirty different schools, regardless of their location or organisation. The research sample consisted of 324 primary school teachers. Teachers do not feel professionally or emotionally weary as a result of their career, according to the data, but instead feel creative, believe their aims have been met, and are motivated to carry out their educational task - obligation. Furthermore, both the principal's attitude and his or her contribution to the efficacy of educational leadership appear to have a key impact in teachers' feelings of personal achievement and happiness.

Author(S) Details

Apostolia Kosta
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Adamos Anastasiou
Hellenic Open University, Greece.

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