Worker assessments of organizational practices and psychosocial work environment are associated with musculoskeletal injuries in hospital patient care workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 810-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silje Endresen Reme ◽  
William S. Shaw ◽  
Leslie I. Boden ◽  
Torill H. Tveito ◽  
Elizabeth Tucker O'Day ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Work Environment ◽  
Musculoskeletal Injuries ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Hospital Patient ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Care Workers

Job satisfaction and the psychosocial work environment: Does the relationship vary by hospital patient care workers’ age?

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 221-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Miller ◽  
Karen Hopcia ◽  
Gregory R. Wagner ◽  
Leslie I. Boden ◽  
Dean Hashimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Work Environment ◽  
Hospital Patient ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Absenteeism and Presenteeism among Care Workers in Swiss Nursing Homes and Their Association with Psychosocial Work Environment: A Multi-Site Cross-Sectional Study

Gerontology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Dhaini ◽  
Franziska Zúñiga ◽  
Dietmar Ausserhofer ◽  
Michael Simon ◽  
Regina Kunz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Psychosocial Work Environment ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Environment Factors ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Work Environment Factors

Background: Worker productivity is central to the success of organizations such as healthcare institutions. However, both absenteeism and presenteeism impair that productivity. While various hospital studies have examined the prevalence of presenteeism and absenteeism and its associated factors among care workers, evidence from nursing home settings is scarce. Objective: To explore care workers' self-reported absenteeism and presenteeism in relation to nursing homes' psychosocial work environment factors. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study utilizing survey data of 3,176 professional care workers in 162 Swiss nursing homes collected between May 2012 and April 2013. A generalized estimating equation ordinal logistic regression model was used to explore associations between psychosocial work environment factors (leadership, staffing resources, work stressors, affective organizational commitment, collaboration with colleagues and supervisors, support from other personnel, job satisfaction, job autonomy) and self-reported absenteeism and presenteeism. Results: Absenteeism and presenteeism were observed in 15.6 and 32.9% of care workers, respectively. While absenteeism showed no relationship with the work environment, low presenteeism correlated with high leadership ratings (odds ratio [OR] 1.22, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01-1.48) and adequate staffing resources (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.02-1.38). Conclusion: Self-reported presenteeism is more common than absenteeism in Swiss nursing homes, and leadership and staffing resource adequacy are significantly associated with presenteeism, but not with absenteeism.

scholarly journals The Psychosocial Work Environment and Perceived Stress among Seniors with Physically Demanding Jobs: The SeniorWorkingLife Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7437
Author(s):  
Jonas Vinstrup ◽  
Annette Meng ◽  
Emil Sundstrup ◽  
Lars L. Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Psychosocial Work Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Decision Latitude ◽  
Collegial Support ◽  
Increased Risk

Background: Poor psychosocial work conditions are known to foster negative health consequences. While the existing literature on this topic focus mainly on white-collar workers, the influence of different aspects of the psychosocial work environment in physically demanding jobs remain understudied. Likewise, senior workers represent a population of the workforce at increased risk of adverse health outcomes and premature exit from the labour market. This study investigates the association between psychosocial work factors and perceived stress among the senior work force. Methods: Utilizing cross-sectional findings, this study reports associations between psychosocial factors (organizational justice, cooperation and collegial support, decision latitude, clarity of tasks, and quality of leadership) and the outcome of perceived stress quantified by Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS). Currently employed senior workers with physically demanding jobs were included in the analyses (n = 3386). Associations were modeled using general linear models with weights to make the estimates representative. Results: For all individually adjusted psychosocial variables, the category of “good” was consistently associated with lower stress scores compared to the categories of both “moderate” and “poor” (all p < 0.0001). Likewise, in the mutually adjusted analysis, the category of “good” was statistically different from “poor” for all included variables, while the category of “moderate” remained different from “poor” for “clarity of tasks”, “cooperation and collegial support”, and “decision latitude”. Conclusions: Among senior workers with physically demanding jobs, poor ratings of organizational factors related to the psychosocial work environment are consistently associated with high stress scores. Blue-collar occupations focusing primarily on physical risk factors are recommended to increase awareness on psychosocial aspects that may be relevant to the local work environment.

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