Occupational Stress Interventions in Health Care Sector

Occupational stress has been a long-standing concern of the health care industry. Studies indicate that health care workers have higher rates of substance abuse and suicide than other professions and elevated rates of depression and anxiety linked to job stress. In addition to psychological distress, other outcomes of job stress include burnout, absenteeism, employee intent to leave, reduced patient satisfaction, and diagnosis and treatment errors. Workplace stress is the harmful physical and emotional responses that can happen when there is a conflict between job demands on the employee and the amount of control an employee has over meeting these demands. However, if stress is too much and persists for a long time, it could lead to physical and mental illness. This paper was focused on the causes of stress, occupational stress, interventions on occupational stress on health care sector.