How do working conditions affect the turnover intention of medical social workers in China?

Background The development of medical social work is an indispensable part of the Healthy China Strategy. However, the medical service field has the fewest social workers in all service fields in China. Creating favorable working conditions can reduce the turnover intention of social workers in the medical service field. So it is necessary to integrate the existing theoretical models to deeply analyze the multiple influencing paths of working conditions on the medical social workers’ turnover intention in the context of China. Methods The data we used came from the China Social Work Longitudinal Survey (CSWLS) conducted in 56 cities across the country in 2019. It adopted a multi-stage random sampling method and the sample of medical social workers was selected according to their current service field and the sample size finally entering the model was 382. We tested the relationships with the Structural Equation Model (SEM) by STATA 16.0. Results Job-related stress play the most significant role in explaining the formation mechanism of medical social workers’ turnover intention. On the one hand, job-related stress can reduce the job satisfaction of medical social workers, further increasing their turnover intention; on the other hand, job-related stress can increase job burnout of medical social workers, further reducing their job satisfaction and ultimately increasing the turnover intention. Job satisfaction plays a full mediating effect between the job burnout of medical social workers and their turnover intention. The social support and job autonomy provided by social work agencies have limited effects on decreasing the turnover intention of medical social workers. Conclusions The two paths of job-related stress affecting turnover intention successfully integrate the Job Demands-Resources Model and the Price-Mueller Turnover Model into the same theoretical framework providing a theoretical basis for reducing the turnover intention and behavior of social workers in the medical service field, improving the management level in the medical service system and promoting the overall healthy and sustainable development of medical social work in China.

Nature and scope of medical social work in healthcare setting in Pakistan

A sick person’s needs are hardly ever simple rather these are complicated and multifold which require several kinds of assistance, simultaneously. Medicine is the one while the Medical Social Work (MSW) is another way. Social Work discipline emerged in earlier 20th century but in Pakistan, it has been started in 1953. The role of Social Work in healthcare setting is exclusively unique. Social Workers as a part of multidisciplinary teams are dealing with the multidimensional issues of the patients. In Pakistan, the MSW seems failed to achieve a mature professional status and it is still blurred in terms of skills and services. The significance of Social Work services is vague to healthcare administrators and even healthcare professionals. The role of social workers in healthcare setting is limited. Continuous...

Paradigm Shifting From Bio-Medical to Bio-Psycho-Social and Role of Medical Social Work

The health miseries emerged after the horrific incident of Second World War challenged the bio-medical model dominating the healthcare perceptions during the 19th century. The healthcare interventions in post war years have had to change toward a new idea, the social perspective of health. In 1977, Engel introduced a new approach “bio-psycho-social” (BPS) which emphasized that merely bio-medical intervention by ignoring the psycho-social determinants cannot be helpful in achieving absolute recovery. Although this paradigm shift in healthcare was widely acknowledged but the application of the approach is limited. In the context, the role of Medical Social Work, a profession focused on the reduction of the psycho-social and environmental determinants of health for absolute recovery, is considerable. This review study concludes that the interventions of Social work profession with its unique attributes such as breadth, holistic care and believe in absolute rehabilitation, can make the health system more responsive. Keywords: Healthcare, determinants, Medical Social Work, Social, Psychological

USPOREDBA STIGME PREMA DEPRESIVNIM OSOBAMA I VLASTITOJ DEPRESIJI KOD STUDENATA POMAGAČKIH I NEPOMAGAČKIH STRUKA

COMPARISON OF STIGMA TOWARDS DEPRESSIVE PERSONS AND SELF-STIGMA IN STUDENTS OF HELPING AND NONHELPING PROFESSIONS The aim of the research was to examine the differences in the attitudes towards depressive persons and the levels of self-stigma in the students of medical (nursing and medicine; N=101) and non-medical (social work and psychology; N=98) helping professions and the students of non-helping professions (education, speech pathology and social pedagogy; N=109). The covariance analysis determined that, in spite of rarer actual contact with depressive persons and a smaller number of courses teaching them about depression during the course of study, the students of social work and psychology had more positive attitudes towards depressive persons than the students of medicine and nursing. Apart from that, they were better in recognizing the symptoms of depression. Contrary to that, three groups did not differ with regard to perceived stigma, which was more expressed in comparison with the self-stigma. Additionally, the students of non-medical helping professions showed a more pronounced self-stigma than the students of medical helping professions. The students of psychology and social work, in comparison with the students of medicine and nursing, expressed a higher level of shame at the thought of suffering from depression, as well as the more expressed belief that they could not make a positive contribution to society if they suffered from depression.

The Role of Medical Social Work to Raise awareness of Prevention of The Epidemic Diseases

Social work seen as important for preventing epidemic diseases, especially in times of crisis, however, evidence of this importance is still scarce, especially in the developing world. We addressed this by studying the role of medical social work in raising awareness of preventing epidemic diseases, and an analytical and descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among Saudi social workers and consumers (102). It aims at the extent to which the social worker knows the nature of epidemic diseases. And defining the preventive role of social workers in raising awareness of preventive diseases. The premise is that there is a significant reciprocal relationship between them. Non-probability fit sampling has been implemented; A self-administered questionnaire was developed during the COVID20 virus for the year 2020, it was tested and filled out by 102 male and female social workers, and the results showed that the total weights and percentage of the social worker’s knowledge of the dimensions of epidemic diseases are (3022), (89.70%) respectively and the role of the specialist Social awareness in raising awareness of the preventive disease dimension (3309), (83.2%), respectively, was associated with a strong positive correlation with compliance among respondents, in addition to the study's observation of the relationship between socio-demographic background and study dimensions T. Not significant at the 0.05 level (2 tailed) ( Age, experience, gender, marital status, and residence).