• Refine Query
  • Source
  • Publication year
  • to
  • Language
  • 1
  • 1
  • Tagged with
  • 2
  • 2
  • 2
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • 1
  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
1

Sickness presenteeism among nurses

Linnerud, Siv January 2013 (has links)
This thesis is the main product of a Masters degree in Health Science, written by a student at the Department of Social Work and Health Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The thesis discusses sickness presenteeism in general and sickness presenteeism among nurses in particular. Nursing is one of the occupations that are more exposed to sickness presenteeism. Despite this, very little research has yet been done on this correlation – in Norway, almost none. The thesis consists of two articles. The first article presents the concept of sickness presenteeism along with existing theories and research in general and concerning nurses. This is a theoretical article, in which the purpose is to identify why sickness presenteeism is not an ideal situation for nurses and which work-related factors that influence sickness presenteeism among nurses. The research question for this article is “What work-environmental factors have an influence on nurses sickness presenteeisem?” The second article is an empirical article and is done in connection with a survey of nurses’ sickness presenteeism within a Norwegian hospital. The survey examines the connection between sickness presenteeism and the use of substitutes, different working time arrangements and the influence of teamwork. The purpose of this article is to assess how the three work-environmental factors influences nurses’ sickness presenteeism, conducted with the help of three hypotheses. These are: H1: Working-time arrangements have an influence on sickness presenteeism H2: Low extent of using substitutes is related to higher level of sickness presenteeism H3: Good working relationship between co-workers is related to higher level of sickness presenteeism The empirical work for this master’s thesis has been conducted using a quantitative method. This method was chosen based on a desire to investigate the extent, distribution and differences within sickness presenteeism among nurses. A quantitative method gives an opportunity to investigate a larger group of nurses, and obtain results that can also be valid for other nurses. If a qualitative method were to be used, it would not have been possible to collect information from the same number of nurses and the results would most likely not represent nurses in general because of assumed differences between nurses. By using a qualitative method I was also able to compare the results with results from similar studies done in other countries. Still, the quantitative method has little room for a flexible approach to theory, and does not provide information about what might cause the sickness presenteeism. I still found this method to be the most suitable for what I wanted to achieve in this master’s thesis. A survey based on questions used by other researchers with an interest in the same field, was used to collect data. Using questions that others had already used made the results easier to compare, and also acted as some kind of quality control to the questions I first developed. The choices made concerning the survey, items and analysis is further described in chapter 2.0 Method of my empirical article. The strength and limitations of the method is discussed in chapter 4.1 Strengths and limitations of that same article.
2

Upplevelsen av arbetsmiljöns påverkan på välbefinnande hos personer med psykisk funktionsnedsättning : En empirisk studie / The Experience of the Work Environment and the Impact on Well-Being in People with Mental Disabilities : An empirical study

Fredman, Ellinor, Lind, Josephine January 2017 (has links)
Personer med psykiska funktionsnedsättningar har svårare att erhålla och behålla ett arbete på den reguljära arbetsmarknaden. Målgruppen löper större risk att drabbas av ohälsa då de ofta exkluderas från arbetsmarknaden på grund av deras svårigheter och behov av anpassningar i arbetsmiljön. Syftet är att beskriva hur personer med psykiska funktionsnedsättningar som erhållit insatser via metoden Supported Employment upplever att arbetsmiljön påverkar deras välbefinnande. Det var 17 personer med olika psykiska funktionsnedsättningar som hade erfarenhet av en arbetsmiljö som deltog i studien. Bedömningsinstrumentet Work Environment Impact Scale (WEIS) användes till datainsamlingen tillsammans med tillhörande intervjuguide för att samla information kring hur deltagarna upplevde välbefinnande i sin arbetsmiljö. I resultatet framkom det att faktorer som samarbete med arbetskamrater, utformning av arbetsuppgifter, arbetets stimulans, arbetstider och arbetets värde och betydelse var de faktorer som upplevdes mest stödjande för välbefinnande i arbetsmiljön. De faktorer som upplevdes mest hindrande för välbefinnande i arbetsmiljön var arbetsuppgiftens krav, förmåner, sensoriska egenskaper, förväntningar på prestation i arbetet och arbetsredskap. Flera studier visar på att en fungerande arbetsmiljö är viktigt för att kunna utföra sitt arbete. Förslagsvis behövs fler studier som fokuserar på att utveckla arbetsmiljöinterventioner som stödjer personer med psykiska funktionsnedsättningar att trivas och behålla sitt arbete. / People with mental disabilities have difficulty obtaining and keeping a job in the regular labor market. The target group is at greater risk of developing illness, as they are often excluded from the labor market due to their difficulties and their needs for adaptations in the work environment. The purpose of this study is to describe how people with mental disabilities who have received interventions through the ‘Supported Employment’ method experience their work environment and how it affects their well-being. Seventeen people with different mental disabilities and with experience of a specific work environment participated in the study. The ‘Work Environment Impact Scale’ (WEIS) assessment was used for data collection along with the associated interview guide to gather information about how the participants perceived their work environment. In the results it emerged that factors such as cooperation with coworkers, job design, the stimulus of work, working hours, and the value and importance of work were the factors that were most supportive for well-being in the work environment. The most obstructive factors for well-being in the work environment were the work demands, benefits, sensory characteristics, expectations of performance at work, and work tools. Several studies show that a soundly functioning work environment is important in order to perform at work. More studies are needed that focus on developing work environment interventions that help people with mental disabilities to enjoy and keep their jobs.

Page generated in 0.1827 seconds