Development and validation of tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace factors influencing it: for the Indian workforce
| Autor: | Rakesh BALACHANDAR, Asha KETHARAM, Srikala BHARATH |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Industrial Health. |
| ISSN: | 1880-8026 0019-8366 |
| DOI: | 10.2486/indhealth.2022-0019 |
| Popis: | An imbalance in the keyorganizational psychology constructs viz. "Workload", "Reward", "Community","Control", "Values" and "Fairness" are potential factors leading to negativeoccupational mental health, i.e. burnout. Burnout, a psychological syndrome is thecombination of emotional exhaustion, sense of reduced compassion andaccomplishment. To note, the concept of occupational mental health in a nationwith second largest workforce is nascent. Further, the utility of existingwestern tools in Indian subcontinent is limited by culturallyinappropriateness, patented, less comprehensible and other factors. Presentstudy attempted to develop tools to screen occupational mental health andworkplace areas. Conventional steps involved in psychological tool development,viz. construct identification, drafting of pertinent questions, contentvalidation, field testing of questions and others were adopted. After series ofsteps, tools for screening occupational mental health and key constructsinfluencing mental health at workplace (workplace assessment) were developed.The screening tools exhibited adequate test - retest reliability, internalconsistency / reliability (cronbach's α0.73) and correlation (correlationcoefficient0.6) with the general mental health in larger evaluation of 153consenting workers. The proposed simple and easy to administer tool requiresdevelopment of normative scores thereby aiding early diagnosis and managementof those requiring intervention. |
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