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Schneider A, Hering C, Peppler L, Schenk L. Effort-reward imbalance and its association with sociocultural diversity factors at work: findings from a cross-sectional survey among physicians and nurses in Germany. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2023; 96:537-549. [PMID: 36600024 PMCID: PMC9812741 DOI: 10.1007/s00420-022-01947-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Due to staff shortages and reports of high work stress, work conditions of hospital physicians and nurses receive wide attention. Additionally, sociocultural diversity of the workforce and patient population is increasing. Our study aim is to analyze how individual and organizational diversity-related factors are associated with the experience of staff's work stress. METHODS A cross-sectional online survey was conducted with healthcare staff from 22 acute hospitals operated by two healthcare organizations in Germany in 2018. Sociodemographic, occupational and organizational factors were surveyed. Participants further reported work conditions related to the sociocultural diversity of colleagues and patients. Effort-reward imbalance (ERI) was measured with the German short version. Multivariable regression models were calculated with ER ratio as an outcome. RESULTS N = 800 healthcare staff were included. Variables associated with higher ERI were longer work experience (β = 0.092, p < 0.05), not holding a leading position (0.122, < 0.01), being a witness (0.149, < 0.001) or victim (0.099, < 0.05) of discrimination at one's own ward, reporting frequent burden due to language barriers with patients (0.102, < 0.01) and colleagues (0.127, < 0.001), and having restricted access to translators at work (0.175, < 0.001). Factors associated with lower ERI were having a first generation migration background (- 0.095, < 0.05) and being a physician (- 0.112, < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Catering to the needs of healthcare personnel in dealing with the additional effort related to language barriers at work, e.g., readily available translator services, and creating non-discriminatory work environments might be one cornerstone for the prevention of work-related ill health and retention of qualified hospital staff.
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- Anna Schneider
- grid.6363.00000 0001 2218 4662Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- grid.6363.00000 0001 2218 4662Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- grid.6363.00000 0001 2218 4662Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- grid.6363.00000 0001 2218 4662Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Bella VD, Fiorini J, Gioiello G, Zaghini F, Sili A. Towards a New Conceptual Model for Nurses' Organizational Well-being: An Integrative Review. J Nurs Manag 2022; 30:2833-2844. [PMID: 35943839 DOI: 10.1111/jonm.13750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIM To summarize conceptual models of nurses' organizational well-being and identify common variables among them. BACKGROUND To understand how the characteristics of an organizational context affect workers' well-being, numerous conceptual models have been developed. Such models have been conceptualized in various working contexts other than healthcare, and not always considering the particularities of the profession of nursing. Evaluation This integrative review was conducted using the resources of PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus and the Cochrane Library, up until March 2022, and by applying a modified version of Cooper's five-stage methodology, in accordance with the PRISMA guideline. Key issues Six reference models focused on different organizational variables and used to evaluate nurses' organizational well-being were identified: the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model, the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, the Utriainen et al. model, the Demands-Resources and Individual-Effects (DRIVE) model, the Well-Being, Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Work Environment Satisfaction (WHS) model, and the Nursing Worklife Model (NWM). CONCLUSION There is no consensus in the nursing literature on an all-encompassing conceptual model of nurses' organizational well-being, or on working environment characteristics to be studied or monitored for defining nurses' well-being. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT Coming to a consensus on the definition of a nurses' organizational well-being model and its variables would facilitate nursing management in monitoring and intervening on nurses' work-life quality, and in improving nursing performance and caring outcomes.
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- Valerio Della Bella
- MSN, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Research Nurse, Nursing Department, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- MSN, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Research Nurse, Nursing Department, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Director of Nursing Department, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Araújo TM, de Sousa CC, Siegrist J. Stressful work in primary health care and mental health: The role of gender inequities in Brazil. Am J Ind Med 2022; 65:604-612. [PMID: 35524468 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND This study aims to analyze the association between occupational stressors, evaluated by the Effort-Reward Imbalance Model (ERI), and the occurrence of common mental disorders (CMD) among healthcare workers (HCW), additionally considering mediation by over-commitment from work (OW) and mediation of gender effects by work stressors. METHODS Cross-sectional study, including a random sample of 3343 HCWs, from six municipalities of Bahia, Brazil. The ERI scale measured the occupational stressors (main exposure), and the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was used to screen for CMD. Data analysis used Structural Equation Modeling techniques to understand the relationships between gender, occupational stressors, and the occurrence of CMD. RESULTS ERI and OW were associated with CMD. OW mediated the negative effect of ERI on the mental health of HCW. Female workers had higher levels of ERI, OW, and CMD prevalence; the total gender effect on CMD prevalence was mediated by ERI and OW. CONCLUSIONS The findings highlight the association of work psychosocial stressors and CMD among HCW, including partial mediation by OW. Gender inequalities persisted among HCW, with women most exposed to occupational stressors and CMD. ERI and OW partially mediated the effect of gender on CMD.
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- Tânia M. Araújo
- State University of Feira de Santana Feira de Santana Brazil
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Alvarado LE, Bretones FD, Rodríguez JA. The Effort-Reward Model and Its Effect on Burnout Among Nurses in Ecuador. Front Psychol 2021; 12:760570. [PMID: 34887811 PMCID: PMC8648575 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.760570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Burnout has harmful consequences for individuals and organizations. The study of its antecedents can help us to manage and prevent it. This research aims to explore the role of the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) model as well as the mediation of the working experience in the burnout processes. For this purpose, we have conducted a study in 629 employees from two hospitals in the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador). For this study, the Spanish version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory was applied, as well as the ERI Questionnaire, along with other socio-demographical and occupational variables. A statistical analysis was performed with the obtained data, using structural equation models (SEMs). Results showed that employee effort has a stronger and statistically significant direct effect on emotional burnout, whereas the perception of the obtained reward also had this effect but indirectly in a negative sense, with job experience as a mediating variable.
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- Luis E Alvarado
- School of Psychology, University of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.,School of Labor Relations and Human Resources, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- School of Labor Relations and Human Resources, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.,Program Prometeo-Senescyt, Merida, Ecuador
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- Program Prometeo-Senescyt, Merida, Ecuador.,School of Psychology, University of Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela
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Organisational Justice and Political Agency among Nurses in Public Healthcare Organisations: A Qualitative Study Protocol. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2021; 18:ijerph18179110. [PMID: 34501698 PMCID: PMC8430870 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18179110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Nurses are rarely treated as equals in the social, professional, clinical, and administrative life of healthcare organisations. The primary objective of this study is to explore nurses’ perceptions of organisational justice in public healthcare institutions in Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, and to analyse the ways in which they exercise their political agency to challenge the institutional order when it fails to reflect their professional ethos. An ethnomethodological approach using critical discourse analysis will be employed. The main participants will be nurses occupying different roles in healthcare organisations, who will be considered central respondents, and physicians and managers, who will be considered peripheral respondents. Data generation techniques include semi-structured interviews, a sociodemographic questionnaire, and the researcher’s field diary. This is one of the first studies to address organisational justice in healthcare organisations from a macrostructural perspective and to explore nurses’ political agency. The results of this study have the potential to advance knowledge and to ensure that healthcare organisations are fairer for nurses, and, by extension, for the patients in their care.
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Lönnqvist K, Flinkman M, Vehviläinen-Julkunen K, Elovainio M. Organizational justice among registered nurses: A scoping review. Int J Nurs Pract 2021; 28:e12983. [PMID: 34114303 DOI: 10.1111/ijn.12983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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AIMS This study aimed to describe and summarize research concerning organizational justice among registered nurses. BACKGROUND Over the recent decades, a number of studies have explored organizational justice. Perceived high organizational justice among employees has been found to correlate with multiple beneficial outcomes, such as job satisfaction, commitment and improved physical and mental health. By contrast, low organizational justice is related to poor productivity, atmosphere at work, health and well-being. DESIGN This study is a scoping review. DATA Seven databases were used to search for peer-reviewed publications published between January 2015 and August 2019. REVIEW METHOD This scoping review utilized Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework. RESULTS High organizational justice has been found to improve registered nurses' work-related outcomes, health and well-being. Low organizational justice has been linked to undesired work-related outcomes and health problems. CONCLUSION Nurse managers play a key role in promoting organizational justice. Further research is needed to study the relationship between organizational justice and the quality of patient care and safety. There is need for longitudinal studies to understand the effects and nature of organizational justice in the nursing workforce.
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- Katri Lönnqvist
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Social and Health Systems Research, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Kabakleh Y, Zhang JP, Lv M, Li J, Yang S, Swai J, Li HY. Burnout and associated occupational stresses among Chinese nurses: A cross-sectional study in three hospitals. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0238699. [PMID: 32911512 PMCID: PMC7482915 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 08/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND There is literature scarcity relating to burnout and other work stresses in relation to Chinese nursing-workforce performance. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between self-esteem versus burnout; and effort-reward ratio versus favorability to the work environment, among Chinese nurses. METHODS We employed four validated questionnaires in the assessment burnout, self-esteem, effort-reward ratio, and favorability of nursing workplace; Maslach-Burnout Inventory (MBI), Rosenberg's self-esteem (RS), Effort-Reward imbalance (ERI) and Work-Environment Scale questionnaires (WES). Linear and ordinal regression models were utilized to assess the relationships between the variables. Analyses were conducted by using SPSS at a 95% level of significance. RESULTS We assessed 487 (Mean age: 38.8±7.1 years) nurses from three hospitals. Higher self-esteem was associated with a lower level of emotional exhaustion (Unstandardized coefficient: -0.579, p-Value<0.001); and a lower level of depersonalization (Unstandardized coefficient: -0.212, p-Value = 0.001). The relationship between self-esteem and personal achievement did not reach statistical significance. A higher effort-reward ratio was associated with less likelihood that nurses would consider their work environment favorable (Logit estimate of -0.832, p-Value = 0.014). CONCLUSION Lower self-esteem is associated with increased burnout. A higher effort-reward ratio is associated with an enhanced perception work environment as unfavorable. We recommend psychosocial intervention programs and amendments in nursing policies to improve effort-reward imbalance among Chinese nurses.
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- Yasira Kabakleh
- Xiangya school of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Department of Nursing Service Management, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
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- Xiangya school of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Xiangya school of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Xiangya school of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Xiangya school of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Department of Nephrology, Benjamin Mkapa Hospital, Dodoma City, Dodoma Region, The United Republic of Tanzania
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- Nether-sole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
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Topa G, Depolo M, Alcover CM. Early Retirement: A Meta-Analysis of Its Antecedent and Subsequent Correlates. Front Psychol 2018; 8:2157. [PMID: 29354075 PMCID: PMC5759094 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Early or voluntary retirement (ER) can be defined as the full exit from an organizational job or career path of long duration, decided by individuals of a certain age at the mid or late career before mandatory retirement age, with the aim of reducing their attachment to work and closing a process of gradual psychological disengagement from working life. Given the swinging movements that characterize employment policies, the potential effects of ER-both for individuals and society-are still controversial. This meta-analysis examined the relationships between ER and its antecedent and subsequent correlates. Our review of the literature was generated with 151 empirical studies, containing a total number of 706,937 participants, with a wide range of sample sizes (from N = 27 to N = 127,384 participants) and 380 independent effect sizes (ESs), which included 171 independent samples. A negligible ES value for antecedent correlates of early retirement (family pull, job stress, job satisfaction, and income) was obtained (which ranged from r = -0.13 to 0.19), while a fair ES was obtained for workplace timing for retirement, organizational pressures, financial security, and poor physical and mental health, (ranging from r = 0.28 to 0.25). Regarding ER subsequent correlates, poor ESs were obtained, ranging from r = 0.08 to 0.18 for the relationships with subsequent correlates, and fair ESs only for social engagement (r = -0.25). Examination of the potential moderator variables has been conducted. Only a reduced percentage of variability of primary studies has been explained by moderators. Although potential moderator factors were examined, there are several unknown or not measurable factors which contribute to ER and about which there are very little data available. The discussion is aimed to offer theoretical and empirical implications suggestion in order to improve employee's well-being.
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- Gabriela Topa
- Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
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- Psychology, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Medicine and Surgery, Psychology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Immunology and Medical Microbiology, Nursing, and Stomatology, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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