Job design impact on plasma lipid level, depression, job burnout, employee fatigue and workload in workers from Isfahan province Gas Distribution Company

Background: how to do the job and its design is a variable thatinfluences the job related stress. fatigue and job burnout are the mostcommon side effects due to the stress at workplace. in addition, recentevidences are linked the relationship between psychological stressand exhaustion with a variety of physical symptoms and diseases likehigh blood pressure, elevated blood cholesterol and cardiovasculardiseases. the aim of the current research was to investigate therelation between compose of job-burnout, fatigue, depressionand job overload as psychological variables with cholesteroland triglyceride increments and investigate moderator role ofdemand-control imbalance.material and methods: statistical populations for this study werepersonal of isfahan gas distributor company in 2011. theinstruments were burnout questionnaire of maslach, fatiguequestionnaire of shirom, overload questionnaire of shirom,the epidemiologic studies depression scale (ces-d) anddemand control questionnaire of karasek. plasma lipid wasmeasured as dependent variable.results: findings indicated that there were significantdifferences among all psychological variables (except fordepersonalization) between the two appropriate andinappropriate job design groups and medical variables. it wasalso observed a higher level of serum lipid in the inappropriatejob design group.conclusion: the high demand developed personal emotionalexhaustion which in turn caused increased the blood serumlipid. however, the control on the job acted as a supportiveshield preventing the individual against the developing of jobburnout.