pain psychological factors and job stress in rehabilitation workers with or without chronic pain
What is it about?
Pain is affected by pain psychological factors (e.g., pain catastrophizing, depression, and anxiety). Also mental illness is affected by anxiety or depression, although it is unclear whether a relationship exists between PPFs and job stress in workers. The authors accordingly investigated the relationship between PPFs and job stress in rehabilitation workers. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between pain psychological factors and job stress in rehabilitation workers by comparing a chronic pain group (CPG) with a nonpain group (NPG).whereas relationship between PPFs and job stress are unclear.
Why is it important?
Pain psychological factors is examined detail in the medical field. In workers' health, there are many cases to pay attention to pain, but the psychological characteristics of pain is hardly picked up.This was due to the divergence between the medical field and the job health field, We thought that it is necessary to clarify the psychological concept of pain in the health of workers. This paper reports a difference between the chronic pain and non pain in workers . and it may be important for managing workers with job stress or pain. This finding is important to consider mental health measures of workers from now on.