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26 February 2025
Vol. 39 No. 2 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.608

[Work-related stress risk assessment. A pilot study on perceived stress, health quality and work-related problems in a sample of workers of the Uffici Giudiziari di Roma]

Valutazione del rischio da stress lavoro-correlato. Studio pilota su stress percepito, qualità della salute e problematiche di lavoro in un campione di lavoratori degli Uffici Giudiziari di Roma

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Sandra Berivi
U.O.C. Servizio per le Dipendenze ASL RM 3; Laboratorio Italiano di ricerche in Psicologia Analitica/Associazione internazionale di Psicologia Analitica - Roma; Scuola Medica Ospedaliera; Università La Sapienza, Italy.
Antonio Grassi
U.O.C. Servizio per le Dipendenze ASL RM 3; Laboratorio Italiano di ricerche in Psicologia Analitica/Associazione internazionale di Psicologia Analitica - Roma; Scuola Medica Ospedaliera, Università La Sapienza; Università Urbaniana, Rome, Italy.
Carla Russello
U.O.C. Servizio per le Dipendenze ASL RM 3; Rome, Italy.
Antonio Palummieri
apalummieri@gmail.com
Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome, Italy.

In 2008, it was introduced by the Legislature legislation which provided the inclusion of Article 28, paragraph 1 of Legislative Decree. N. 81/2008, which stipulates for businesses and public authorities a duty to assess, among a variety of risks that could threaten the safety and health of workers (chemical, biological risk, etc) and also the work-related stress. The implementation of this decree is, therefore, specified as work-related stress as one of the subjects of mandatory assessment risks. The decree, then entrusted to the Permanent Consultative Commission for health and safety at work the task to prepare the necessary information for the risk assessment of work-related stress, subsequently issued on 17/11/2010 in the form of a "methodological path which represents the minimum level of implementation of the obligation". In light of this regulatory framework, we established our pilot study, with the objective of analyzing a growing occupational discomfort. This objective has been diffused and palpable, but very difficult to define, in a sample of employees of the Judiciary Lazio Offices. The study was commissioned by Law Committee of Guarantee of Equal Opportunity Enhancement of Welfare Work and those against Discrimination (CUG) of the Judicial Offices Romans of the Court of Appeal of Rome also contributed to its realization. The data collected from the administration of two standardized questionnaires was analyzed (Questionnaire-gauge instrument INAIL and the SF-12 vl).
More evidently in this pilot study, there was a serious problem in the organizational dimension, in specific, in managerial support. Just as it appears, the study sample is perceived less healthy, both physically and mentally, than the Italian normative sample. Although the sample is only a part of the study population, 26% of workers of the Judicial Offices Romans, the data obtained shows however, from both a quantitative and qualitative view point, a significant occupational stress and suggests the need to broaden our search in order to find different possible solutions to improve the condition of workers and, consequently, the degree of citizens' satisfaction that caters to this delicate area of expertise.​

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[Work-related stress risk assessment. A pilot study on perceived stress, health quality and work-related problems in a sample of workers of the Uffici Giudiziari di Roma]: Valutazione del rischio da stress lavoro-correlato. Studio pilota su stress percepito, qualità della salute e problematiche di lavoro in un campione di lavoratori degli Uffici Giudiziari di Roma. (2025). Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia, 39(2), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.608
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