this work aims to recognise and legitimise the potential stressors of those who work in the health sector, with a focus on the most critical departments in terms of patient type and intervention, aware of the need to explore emotional experiences and professional needs from a prevention and protection perspective, in order to design effective interventions that promote the protection of operators' psychological well-being and strengthen their resilience factors. Drug-free, device-free, single-center, prospective longitudinal observational study with a total duration of 18 months.
Primary Objective: To record and describe over time some psychological dimensions related to the work activity of FPG workers, with a focus on contexts and departments considered more critical (for the type of activity or type of patients, such as the emergency area or oncology wards), in order to highlight possible areas of improvement and with respect to psychological well-being and Quality of Life (QoL) in the professional setting.
Secondary Objectives:
* Improving coping strategies, enhancing resilience, assessing aspects related to self-perception and self-efficacy in the work environment.
* Assess any correlations between what emerged from the psychological profile and: socio-demographic data, type of context in which one works, previous exposure to traumatic events, any psychological treatment.
* To assess how the motivation and/or over-involvement of operators in the relevant work contexts may be related to the development of work stress, which in turn could be a predictor with respect to issues inherent in the phenomena of absenteeism, work distress, job abandonment, transfer requests.
Sample size: 500 operators. Since this is an observational study whose analysis approach will be predominantly descriptive, no formal calculation of sample size based on hypothesis testing is planned. Based on the number of health care workers at the Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria, we estimate that we can enroll approximately 500 subjects. As a general indication, this numerosity will allow us to estimate proportions with a maximum standard error of 0.022.
Methodology: Questionnaire administration at 2 times (T0 baseline, T1 after 4 months), with the possibility of questionnaire completion through the Microsoft Forms online platform.
All variables under study will be assessed in the first instance by descriptive statistical techniques. In detail, qualitative variables will be summarized through absolute frequencies and percentages. As for the quantitative variables, their distribution will first be assessed using the Shapiro Wilk test, then where normally distributed they will be expressed as mean and standard deviation (SD), otherwise as median and interquartile range (IQR).
The primary endpoint related to the domain of psychological and occupational well-being, which is purely exploratory, will therefore be analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics, as reported above. The same approach will be followed for the assessment of the domains of relational and occupational well-being, coping strategies, and behavioral All questionnaires will be analyzed with reference to each individual scale, both in terms of overall score and with respect to individual items and through correlation with other tests. Changes between T0 and T1 will be investigated using paired data tests with parametric or nonparametric approach depending on the distribution of the variables themselves. Graphical representations will also be used to better interpret and communicate the results. Data analysis will be conducted using IBM-SPSS v.28.0 software.
