Hospital staff attitudes towards their health and workplace

Abstract

Safe and healthy work environment is very important not only for the welfare of employees, but it also helps to ensure successful performance of institution, good quality of services for patient and favourable work climate. Our research was targeted on clarifying the opinion of employees about their health condition, their workplace and factors determining health. Methods: The questionnaire was prepared according to the recommendations of WHO. Doctors, nurses and administration staff took part in the survey. The total number of distributed questionnaires was 300; the questionnaires were filled in by 216 persons (response rate – 72 percent). Results: The employees of hospital like their work (4.27, in the scale from 1 to 5). Half of the employees mentioned that their work conditions meet all hygiene and safety requirements. About 40 percent of employees are engaged in sports, 59 percent would do sports if facilities were provided at the workplace. Smokers – 18.4 percent, but the major part would like to get rid of this addiction. The majority of employees, attempting to improve their health condition, would like to avoid stress, choose a healthier diet, more engage in sports (Figure 1), but such obstacles like the lack of time, finances, frequent stressful situations prevent that. [...].