Features of psychosomatization of medical professionals with occupational deformations

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Introduction. The stressful conditions of the occupational activity of medical workers lead to the appearance of symptoms of occupational deformations and psychosomatization in them.

Purpose. The purpose of identifying the features of medical workers with occupational deformations was achieved by interviewing 6830 medical workers, including 816 cases with pronounced deformations of a professional plan, and establishing links between the components of occupational deformations and psychosomatization.

Material and methods. There were used Maslach Burnout Inventory and its modification, Mental Burnout Definition Questionnaire, Questionnaire for Identifying Problems and Their Impact on Health, Psychosomatics of Our Lives, Giessen somatic complaint questionnaire. Mathematical and statistical processing included descriptive statistics, C. Pearson’s correlation criterion, and Cheddock’s table.

Results. Medical workers with a high level of exhaustion of emotional and psychoemotional species have a higher average level with a tendency to a high level of deformations of the occupational occupational plan, a higher average level of reduction changes in personal and professional achievements and motivation professional species and an average level of depersonalization processes and estrangement of personal and professional nature dominates exhaustion emotional and psychoemotional species, which determines a high level of complaints about the activity of the cardiovascular system (heart complaints) and intensity of complaints, above average complaints about the activity of the digestive and respiratory systems, gastric complaints, the average level of complaints about the activity of the musculoskeletal system, complaints negative skin reactions, pain in various parts of the body.

Discussion. The results of studies by domestic and foreign doctors and psychologists confirm the need for diagnostics, prevention, and correction of professional deformation and leveling of psychosomatic symptoms of medical workers in the context of health care reform.

Conclusion. Psychosomatization of medical workers with professional deformations develops according to the coronary type, which gives reason to recommend to medical workers systematic diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disorders of the cardiovascular system.

About the authors

Olga B. Polyakova

Russian State Social University

Author for correspondence.
Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2581-5516
Russian Federation

Tatyana I. Bonkalo

Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of Moscow Healthcare Department

Email: bonkalotatyanaivanovna@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0887-4995

Doctor of Psychology, Head of the Department of the Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, 115088, Russia.

e-mail: Bonkalotatyanaivanovna@yandex.ru

Russian Federation

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