Perceived professional quality of life and mental well-being among animal facility personnel in Spain.

IF 1.3 4区 农林科学 Q2 VETERINARY SCIENCES
Laboratory Animals Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-09-08 DOI:10.1177/00236772231187177
Olatz Goñi-Balentziaga, Garikoitz Azkona
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Animal facility personnel provide the husbandry and care of laboratory animals. We aimed to investigate their work-related quality of life, empathy and mental well-being. Participants living in Spain were contacted by email and asked to complete an anonymous online questionnaire, in which they answered the Professional Quality of Life scale, the Cognitive and affective empathy test, the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale, and their perceived human-animal interaction. Participants were asked whether they were receiving psychological therapy or were taking anxiolytics, hypnotics or antidepressant medication. The study comprised 80 participants. No differences were observed related to personal or professional variables. Participants working with small carnivores reported higher total empathy, and those working with non-human primates reported higher emotional comprehension. Higher human-animal interaction was reported by participants working with small carnivores, farm animals and non-human primates. More than half of the participants reported high levels of mental well-being, positively correlated with emotional comprehension, emphatic joy and compassion satisfaction. Participants working with farm animals reported higher levels of secondary traumatic stress that was positively correlated with human-animal interaction and negatively with mental well-being. Most participants reported low-average levels of burnout, which was negatively correlated with mental well-being. The percentage of animal facility personnel in psychotherapy was higher than in the general population, and the consumption of anxiolytics was a little lower and antidepressants higher. Overall, our results indicate that animal-facility personnel who felt stress or worse mental well-being were in therapy and took medication to improve their condition.

西班牙动物设施工作人员对职业生活质量和心理健康的看法。
动物设施工作人员负责饲养和护理实验动物。我们的目的是调查他们与工作相关的生活质量、同理心和精神健康状况。我们通过电子邮件联系了居住在西班牙的参与者,并要求他们填写一份匿名在线问卷,其中包括职业生活质量量表、认知和情感移情测试、沃里克-爱丁堡心理健康量表以及他们对人与动物互动的看法。研究人员还询问了参与者是否正在接受心理治疗或服用抗焦虑药、催眠药或抗抑郁药。这项研究共有 80 名参与者。没有观察到与个人或职业变量有关的差异。与小型食肉动物打交道的参与者报告了更高的移情能力,与非人灵长类动物打交道的参与者报告了更高的情绪理解能力。与小型食肉动物、农场动物和非人灵长类动物打交道的参与者报告了较高的人与动物互动水平。半数以上的参与者表示心理健康水平较高,这与情绪理解能力、情感愉悦和同情满意度呈正相关。与农场动物打交道的参与者报告了较高程度的二次创伤压力,这种压力与人与动物的互动呈正相关,与心理健康呈负相关。大多数参与者的职业倦怠平均水平较低,与心理健康呈负相关。接受心理治疗的动物园工作人员比例高于普通人群,抗焦虑药的用量略低,抗抑郁药的用量较高。总体而言,我们的研究结果表明,感到压力或心理健康状况较差的动物医院工作人员会接受治疗并服用药物来改善他们的状况。
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Laboratory Animals
Laboratory Animals 生物-动物学
CiteScore
4.90
自引率
8.30%
发文量
64
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: The international journal of laboratory animal science and welfare, Laboratory Animals publishes peer-reviewed original papers and reviews on all aspects of the use of animals in biomedical research. The journal promotes improvements in the welfare or well-being of the animals used, it particularly focuses on research that reduces the number of animals used or which replaces animal models with in vitro alternatives.
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