The Relationship Of Occupational Stress And The Level Of Partial Hormone Metabolites In Urine

ObjectiveOccupational stress had got more and more attentions from people,and the main way of evaluating occupational stress at home and abroad was using psychology scales and questionaires.The objective indexes of occupational stress was less.Due to the result was influenced by subjective factors,so it was necessary to investigate some objective indexes for evaluating occupational stress.Currently, the investigation for some objective indexes had carried out at home and abroad,but the majority research was laboratory study and got uncertainty conclusions and the medium of research was more saliva and blood,and the field study which had the medium with urine had not been extensively.Therefore,we carried out this research which increasing sample size and using random urine for medium to investigate the relationship of occupational stress and the level of17-OHCS,17-KS, VMA and HVA in urine under the real workplace condition,then discoveried the possibility for them as indexes of occupational stress,and provided new scientific evidences for identification and evaluation of occupational stress.MethodsBy cluster sampling method,225serving polices from a local police station of the Zhengzhou Public Security Bureau was sampled as the objective. Occupational stressors, occupatioanal strain,personalities and buffering factors were measured by Occupational Stress Measure Instrument.The concentration of17-OHCS,17-KS, VMA and HVA in urine were tested by the enzyme league immune measurement (ELISA) and high performance liquid chromatography method.Depending the SPSS12.0,the difference of the level of hormone metabolites in different demographic characteristics groups and occupational stressors groups were tested by t-test or one-way ANOVA. Demographic characteristics and occupational stressors as the independent variable, the level of urine hormone metabolites as the dependent variable,Logistic regression analysis was tested. a=0.05(two-tailed). ResultsT-test showed that the difference of17-OHCS,17-KS, VMA and HVA between male and female was significant(P<0.05).The difference of17-OHCS and17-KS for different groups of drinking was significant(P<0.05),and the difference of the level of17-KS between traffic police and community police or criminal police was significant(P<0.05)The difference of17-OHCS for different groups of coworker support and negative affectivity was significant(P<0.05). The difference of17-KS for different groups of job stability was significant(P<0.05). The difference of VMA for different groups of coworker support and non-work pressure was significant(P<0.05). The difference of HVA for different groups of coping strategy was significant(P<0.05).Multivariate logistic regression showed that drinkingjob control and esteem were negative related with the level of17-OHCS (OR=0.385, P=0.045; OR=0.353, P=0.017; OR=0.352, P=0.045). Community police,criminal police, overcommitment, self-respect and daily hassles were positive related with the level of17-OHCS (OR=3.409, P=0.018; OR=3.600, P=0.020; OR=3.391, P=0.013; OR=2.439, P=0.041; OR=2.584, P=0.048). Criminal police was positive related with the level of17-KS (OR=2.949, P=0.037) Job control and job stability were negative related with the level of17-KS (OR=0.387, P=0.026;OR=0.356, P=0.014). Negative affectivity was positive related with the level of VMA (OR=2.643, P=0.022).All factors did not enter into the equation of the level of HVA as the dependent variable.ConclusionThe low level of job control, esteem and the high level of overcommitment, self-respect and daily hassles could cause the level of17-OHCS in urine increased.The low level of job control and job stability could cause the level of17-KS in urine increased.The high level of negative affectivity could cause the level of VMA in urine increased.The level of17-OHCS,17-KS and VMA in urine might be some indexes for evaluating occupational stress,but which need further research.