Introduction:

currently, the study of the relationships between people and their work conditions are of great interest.

Objective:

to analyze the influence of risk psychosocial factors in the labor climate and stress of the workers of a basic hospital in the city of Ambato, Ecuador.

Materials and methods:

non-experimental, cross-sectional and prospective study. Three surveys were applied to 50 workers: the CoPsoQ-ista21 (version 2), the FOCUS-93 labor climate questionnaire, and the stress evaluation inventory of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (version 3). Pearson's Chi-square test, with a significance level of 0.05, was used to discard the null hypothesis, and curvilinear linear regression was used to determine the influence of the factors on the two dependent variables.

Results:

esteem (100 % unfavorableness), psychological demands (94 %) and double presence (90 %) were the psychosocial factors the informers rated worst. Only 40.5 % of the participants considered their work climate as satisfactory; and the presence of physiological and psycho-emotional symptoms caused by stress was recorded in 80 % of the population.

Conclusions:

psychosocial risk factors influenced the negative perception of the labor environment and the increase of stress symptoms.

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