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FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.683388
Keywords
job satisfaction; job control; mental workload; healthcare worker; hospital
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- Shoushtar Faculty of Medical Sciences
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In this study, job control was found to moderate the relationship between mental workload and job satisfaction among healthcare workers. Nurses and midwives had higher mental workload but also higher job satisfaction and job control compared to administrative workers. The findings suggest that job control plays an important role in improving working conditions and job satisfaction in healthcare workers.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of job control in relation to mental workload and job satisfaction of healthcare workers. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 480 nurses, midwives, and administrative workers in four educational hospitals of Ardabil, Iran. Research tools were included demographic information questionnaire, NASA-TLX questionnaire, job description index (JDI) questionnaire and job control inquiry. Results: Compared with administrative workers, mental workload of nurses and midwives was significantly higher and likewise mental workload of nurses was significantly difference compared to midwives (P < 0.001). Nurses and midwives had substantially higher job satisfaction than administrative workers (P < 0.001). Also, nurses and midwives had higher job control than administrative workers (P < 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively). Based on the designed model, the correlation between mental workload and job satisfaction was negative and significant (r = -0.22); which in the presence of job control, the relationship between the two variables of workload and job satisfaction slightly increased (r = -0.19, P < 0.001). These conditions were the same in the three job groups separately. Conclusion: Mental workload is inversely related to job satisfaction and job control. Job control plays an important role in improving working conditions in healthcare workers.
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