The specificity of the vitality of health care workers with professional deformations

Introduction. The influence of stress factors in the social and occupational spheres of life leads to deformations of the professional plan and a decline in the vitality in health workers (indicators of beliefs about oneself as a specialist and occupational environment, resistance to stressful professional situations, endurance, satisfaction from work and its results, involvement, self-confidence, control, professional self-development).

The purpose of the study is to determine the specificity of the vitality of health care workers with occupational deformities.

Material and methods. The survey of 6830 healthcare workers was executed, including 816 cases with pronounced deformations of a professional plan. We used a burnout questionnaire and its modification, a mental burnout questionnaire, three modifications of the vitality test (in order to obtain objective information when the subjects perceive the content of the statements of the questionnaires in various contexts, taking into account the performance of diagnostic procedures by the self-assessment method) and a test for resistance to life difficulties. Mathematical and statistical data processing included descriptive statistics, K. Pearson’s correlation test and the Chaddock table.

Results. In health care workers, the dominance of depletion of the psychoemotional type is determined, determined by the above-average: deformation of the professional aspect, depletion of the psychoemotional nature, reduction components of the achievements of the personal and professional type and motivation of professional activity, as well as average: the distance of the personal and professional aspect and depersonalization criteria, affecting a tendency towards a lower average risk acceptance, reduced indicator of involvement, a decrease in the average value of resilience and resistance to life difficulties, a tendency towards an average indicator of control.

Discussion. The results of studies by foreign and domestic doctors and psychologists confirm the need for diagnostics, prevention and correction of professional deformations and increasing the resilience of healthcare workers.

Conclusion. The need for systematic diagnosis, prevention and correction of the components of deformations of the occupational plan of health workers is explained by the lowered indicators of involvement, resilience, control, risk acceptance and resilience to life’s difficulties.