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Volume 5, Issue 3 (Suppl)

Occup Med Health Aff, an open access journal

ISSN:2329-6879

Occupational Health-2017

September 13-14, 2017

September 13-14, 2017 | Dallas, USA

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Zohreh Tavakoli et al., Occup Med Health Aff 2017, 5:3 (Suppl)

DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879-C1-035

Sources of stress and coping strategies among Iranian physicians

Zohreh Tavakoli

, Ali Montazeri

, Ali Asghar Farshad

, Zahra Lotfi

and

Ismail Noor Hassim

National University of Malaysia, Malaysia

Academic Center for Education Culture and Research, Iran

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Background:

Physicians are at risk of having high levels of stress which affect their performance. Finding the stressors and the coping

skills to manage stress could be used to develop program to decrease stressful situation. No study has been done on Physician’s stress

and coping in Iran. The main objective of this study is to find out the main stressors and coping strategies among Iranian Physicians

working in hospital in Tehran-Iran.

Methods:

A cross-sectional study was performed on 780 Physicians, using a questionnaire consisted of two sections; The first section

were the stressors which included 67 questions and the second section were The Brief COPE with 28-items for assessing a broad range

of coping behaviors among respondents.

Results:

A total of 1100 questionnaires were distributed to all the available Physicians in the hospitals selected. 780 Physicians returned

complete questionnaires with observed response rate of 75%. Most respondents (56.9%) were women. The first 3 sources of stress

in workplace (Job stressors) are physical environment problem (75%), too much volume of work and poorly paid. The main sources

of stress outside the work place (non-job stressors) ranked by Physicians were; financial problem (9.09), not enough time to spend

with family (8.87), conflicts with household tasks (7.36). The top five coping strategies used by Iranian Physicians were Behavioral

Disengagement, Planning, Instrumental support, Acceptance, and turning to religion.

Conclusions:

This study revealed that both workplace and non-job sources of stress can affect the Physicians performance and there

is an association between gender and coping skills.

Biography

Zohreh Tavakoli, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia, Medical Center, Malaysia.