فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Introduction: Work-related stress is one of the basic problems in industrial also top10 work-related health problems and it is increasingly implicated in the development a numberof problems such as cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal diseases, early retirement toemployees. On the other hand, early retirement to employees from the workplace has increasedon the problems of today’s industries. Hereof, improving work ability is one of the most effectiveways to enhance the ability and preventing disability and early retirement. The aim of Thisstudy is determine the relationship between job stress score and work ability index (WAI)at the refinery workers. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in which171 workers from a refinery in isfahan in 2012 who were working in different occupational groupsparticipated. Based on appropriate assignment sampling, 33 office workers, 69 operationalworkers, and 69 maintenance workers, respectively, were invited to participate in this study. Twoquestionnaires including work related-stress and WAI were filled in. Finally, the information wasanalyzed using the SPSS-20 and statistic tests namely, analysis of covariance Kruskal-Wallistest. Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA and t-test. Results: Data analysis revealed that 86%and 14% of participants had moderate and severe stress respectively. Average score of stressand standard deviation was 158.7 ± 17.3 that was in extreme stress range. Average scoreand standard deviation of WAI questionnaire were 37.18 and 3.86 respectively. That placed ina good range. Pearson correlation coefficient showed that WAI score had significant reversedrelationship with a score of stress. Conclusion: According to the results, mean stress scoreamong refinery worker was high and one fator that affect work abiity was high stress, hencetraining on communication skills and safe working environment in order to decreses stress,enhance the work ability of workers.