Impacts of Mobbing on the Health of a Group of Nurses, Translation and Validation of the General Health Questionnaire-28 – Intermediate Results

Czech version

Authors: Klára Václavíková ¹; Radka Kozáková ¹
Authors‘ workplace: Lékařská fakulta, Univerzita Ostrava ¹
Published in: Prakt. Lék. 2021; 101(Suplementum 1, díl 2.): 32-37
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Overview

Introduction: Mobbing is a negative phenomenon described as being exposed to negative behaviour at least once a week for six months. The occurrence of mobbing in the workplace negatively influences mental and physical health. Nurses are more likely to experience mobbing than other healthcare professionals.GHQ-28 is a screening tool enabling the evaluation of current physical and mental health and the exposure of shorttime health disorders at adults.

Aim: Determine the measure of the occurrence of mobbing and its impact on health at selected sample of nurses. Implement the linguistic validation of the screening tool GHQ-28.

Method: The group consisted of 176 nurses working in the acute care department. NAQ-R (Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised) and GHQ-28 (General Health Questionnaire-28) tools were used. The linguistic validation of the GHQ-28 from English to Czech was performed using the back-translation method.

Results: In total 28,74 % of selected nurses experienced mobbing. Nurses who are being mobbed are exposed to high headache, anxiety and irritation. Statistically, a negative influence of mobbing on the health of the selected nurses was proved on low significance level. The Czech version of GHQ-28 to revealed high content validity and internal consistency.

Conclusion: Nurses who participated in the study stated to have experienced the occurrence of mobbing in the workplace in the last 6 months and they declared to have health disorders which might be related to mobbing. The revelation of the occurrence of mobbing and related impacts could positively influence suggested solution strategies and prevention

Keywords:

mobbing – Nurses – impact on health – NAQ-R – GHQ-28

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