Exploring Risk Factors Affecting Social Worker Well-Being in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Social workers in Saudi Arabia are essential to delivering essential services across diverse communities.Nonetheless, their occupation comes with various inherent risks, including emotional distress, ethical dilemmas, and physical hazards.This study's objective was to establish the extent to which social workers face risks when undertaking social work in Saudi Arabia, focusing on four dimensions of risks; administrative and organizational, ethical and professional, psychological and social, and physical.The study adopts a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional design, and used a structured questionnaire distributed to a sample of social workers across various institutions in Saudi Arabia to collect data.The findings indicated that social workers in Saudi experienced all the dimensions of risk considered at a relatively moderate frequency (M ranges 2.01 -2.12 on a 3-point scale).There were significant variations in the frequency in which the different risks were experienced, which made for some valuable insights into the nature of social work risks in Saudi Arabia.