Department of Anatomy, Italian Red Cross, Milan, Italy
Research Article
Work-Related Stress in Three Groups with Specific Homogeneous Tasks
Author(s): Gianfranco Tomei, Carlo Monti, Luciana Fidanza, Roberto Massimi, Flavio Ciccolini, Aanstasia Suppi, Alessandra Di Marzio, Donato Pompeo De Cesare, Grazia Giammichele, Federica De Marco, Stefania Marchione, Roberto Giubilati, Francesco Tomei* and Pasquale Ricci
In relation to the medico-social and medico-legal aspects of stress we have studied the effects of stress on
different working populations.
Background: Stress is the second most common work-related health problem, affecting about 22% of workers
in the EU. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (2000) defines work-related stress as a condition
that "occurs when the demands of the work environment exceed the ability of workers to cope with it".
In the evaluation of this work-related stress it is of fundamental importance to identify the factors capable of
generating and increasing it in order to identify categories of subjects particularly at risk and plan interventions
for the prevention, elimination or reduction of risk.
Material and methods: The aim of the research is to identify critical is.. View more»