[Psycho-physical fatigue in hospital personnel and intervention of the occupational physician].

: Fatigue is a topical subject that slips an univocal classification. That is because it involves the whole organism with its physiological components (Autonomous Nervous System, biochemical parameters...), as well as the affective, cognitive, and behaviour components. The Authors investigate fatigue as an emotion. Emotion is a research object that unifies all these different aspects. Throughout a qualitative research, over a sample of female hospital workers, they try to explain the complexity of this emotion. Trigger factors and, at the same time, inhibition factors are, on the one hand, the traditional ones such as shiftwork or number of years in office. On the other hand, important factors emerged: the satisfaction at work; the lack of control over some aspects of work (management and organization); the health work itself( experience of illness and death, relationship with patients and their relatives); the fatigue of "keeping in mind" the worker's own family and sons. The elaboration of these topics, done by the same workers as well as managers and occupational health and safety services, could allow to treat in a more efficient way "fatigue at work" and its effects in individuals, groups and organizations.