Assessment of Subjective Stress in Video Display Terminal Workers

Autor: Manuela Ciarrocca, Massimo Biondi, A. Martini, Assuntina Capozzella, Lorenzo Tarsitani, Carlo Monti, Gianfranco Tomei, Maria Valeria Rosati, Francesco Tomei, Paolo Pancheri
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Industrial Health. 44:291-295
ISSN: 1880-8026
0019-8366
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.291
Popis: Stress assessment in the workplace has been focused on its environmental, psychological and biological aspects. We carried out an evaluation of the subjective components of stress in a working population of 60 subjects employed in a large Public Service, 30 Video Display Terminal (VDT) workers (15 men and 15 woman) and 30 office-workers not assigned to VDT (15 men and 15 woman), by using the "Rapid Stress Assessment Scale": a short questionnaire of easy administration in work environment. VDT workers of both sexes showed higher total stress score vs. office workers (respectively p
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