PMID- 21682912
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111201
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 11
DP  - 2011 Jun 18
TI  - Applying the revised Chinese Job Content Questionnaire to assess psychosocial 
      work conditions among Taiwan's hospital workers.
PG  - 478
LID - 10.1186/1471-2458-11-478 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: For hospital accreditation and health promotion reasons, we examined 
      whether the 22-item Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) could be applied to evaluate 
      job strain of individual hospital employees and to determine the number of 
      factors extracted from JCQ. Additionally, we developed an Excel module of 
      self-evaluation diagnostic system for consultation with experts. METHODS: To 
      develop an Excel-based self-evaluation diagnostic system for consultation to 
      experts to make job strain assessment easier and quicker than ever, Rasch rating 
      scale model was used to analyze data from 1,644 hospital employees who enrolled 
      in 2008 for a job strain survey. We determined whether the 22-item Job Content 
      Questionnaire (JCQ) could evaluate job strain of individual employees in work 
      sites. The respective item responding to specific groups' occupational hazards 
      causing job stress was investigated by using skewness coefficient with its 95% CI 
      through item-by-item analyses. RESULTS: Each of those 22 items on the 
      questionnaire was examined to have five factors. The prevalence rate of Chinese 
      hospital workers with high job strain was 16.5%. CONCLUSIONS: Graphical 
      representations of four quadrants, item-by-item bar chart plots and skewness 95% 
      CI comparison generated in Excel can help employers and consultants of an 
      organization focusing on a small number of key areas of concern for each worker 
      in job strain.
FAU - Chien, Tsair-Wei
AU  - Chien TW
AD  - Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan.
FAU - Lai, Wen-Pin
AU  - Lai WP
FAU - Wang, Hsien-Yi
AU  - Wang HY
FAU - Hsu, Sen-Yen
AU  - Hsu SY
FAU - Castillo, Roberto Vasquez
AU  - Castillo RV
FAU - Guo, How-Ran
AU  - Guo HR
FAU - Chen, Shih-Chung
AU  - Chen SC
FAU - Su, Shih-Bin
AU  - Su SB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20110618
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Job Satisfaction
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Occupational Exposure/*analysis
MH  - Personnel, Hospital/*psychology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Stress, Psychological/*epidemiology
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Taiwan/epidemiology
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC3146858
EDAT- 2011/06/21 06:00
MHDA- 2011/12/13 00:00
PMCR- 2011/06/18
CRDT- 2011/06/21 06:00
PHST- 2010/06/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/06/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/06/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/06/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/12/13 00:00 [medline]
PHST- 2011/06/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-2458-11-478 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-2458-11-478 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2011 Jun 18;11:478. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-478.