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Impact of a manager-oriented intervention on occupational exposures and well-being among pregnant hospital and day-care employees: A cluster randomised trial.
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health; Mar2023, Vol. 51 Issue 2, p188-196, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Background: Pregnancy can make it difficult to cope with demands at work and may affect women's well-being. We investigated if a manager-targeted educational intervention reduced demanding occupational exposures and improved the psychosocial work environment and well-being among pregnant employees. Methods: Data came from a cluster randomised trial in Danish hospitals and day-care institutions. Work units were assigned randomly and were non-blinded to the intervention, where managers were either invited to participate in a three-hour seminar addressing job adjustment in pregnancy or assigned to a control group undertaking their usual practice. Self-reported outcomes by pregnant employees at the work units were the proportion of pregnant employees with demanding occupational exposures, good psychosocial work environment and good well-being. Mixed logistic regression was applied in the population of responders and in intention-to-treat analyses using multiple imputations. Results: We included 915 pregnant employees: 451 in the intervention group and 464 in the control group. Of 216 invited managers, 103 (48%) participated in the seminar. A total of 339 (37%) pregnant employees answered the questionnaire. The proportion of pregnant employees who had demanding occupational exposures, good psychosocial work environment and good well-being in the intervention versus the control group were 36% versus 39% (odds ratio (OR)=0.90, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.57–1.44), 56% versus 59% (OR=1.01, 95% CI 0.60–1.71) and 77% versus 73% (OR=1.13, 95% CI 0.68–1.87), respectively. Conclusions: This manager-targeted educational intervention did not reduce demanding occupational exposures and did not improve the psychosocial work environment or the well-being among pregnant employees in hospital and day-care settings. Comprehensive and participatory interventions may be considered in future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WELL-being
WORK environment
CONFIDENCE intervals
NURSE administrators
PREGNANT women
OCCUPATIONAL exposure
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
RESEARCH funding
OCCUPATIONAL health services
STATISTICAL sampling
LOGISTIC regression analysis
ODDS ratio
WOMEN employees
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14034948
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162089672
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948211018387