Psychosocial working conditions and mental health among medical assistants in Germany: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical assistants (MA) constitute one of the largest professions in outpatient health care in Germany. The psychosocial working conditions of health care staff are generally believed to be challenging and to thereby increase the risk of poor mental health. A review of MA's psychosocial working conditions and mental health is lacking, however. We aimed to systematically identify and summarize existing research on psychosocial working conditions and mental health of MA by addressing (1) Which methods, concepts, and instruments have been used to capture the psychosocial working conditions and mental health among MA in Germany? (2) What findings are available? and (3) What are the research gaps?

Methods

We systematically searched Medline, Scopus, CCMed and Google Sch

SUBMITTER: Schmidt-Stiedenroth K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10916249 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature