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- Rydström, Ingela, et al.
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Importance of social capital at the workplace for return to work among women with a history of long-term sick leave: a cohort study
- 2017
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Ingår i: Bmc Nursing. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1472-6955. ; 16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The workplace is an essential source of social capital for many people; it provides mutual support and gives meaning to life. However, few prospective studies have thoroughly investigated the importance of aspects of social capital in the workplace. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between aspects of social capital (social support, sense of community, and quality of leadership) at the workplace, and work ability, working degree, and vitality among women with a history of long-term sick leave from human service organizations. Methods: A longitudinal cohort study was performed among women with a history of long-term sick leave. The study started in 2005, and the women were followed up at 6 months, 1 year, and 6 years using self-reported questionnaires (baseline n = 283). Linear mixed models were used for longitudinal analysis of the repeated measurements of prospective degree of work ability, working degree, and vitality. Analyses were performed with different models; the explanatory variables for each model were social support, sense of community, and quality of leadership and time. Results: Social capital in terms of quality of leadership (being good at solving conflicts and giving high priority to job satisfaction), sense of community (co-operation between colleagues) and social support (help and support from immediate superiors and colleagues) increased the women's work ability score (WAS) as well as working degree over time. Additionally, social capital in terms of quality of leadership increased the women's vitality score over time. Conclusions: A sustainable return-to-work process among individuals with a history of long-term sick leave, going in and out of work participation, could be supported with social support, good quality of leadership, and a sense of community at the workplace. The responsibility for the rehabilitation process can not be reduced to an individual problem, but ought to include all stakeholders involved in the process, such as managers, colleagues, health care services, and the social security agency.
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- Morberg, Siv, et al.
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The perceived perceptions of head school nurses in developing school nursing roles within schools
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Nursing Management. - : Hindawi Limited. - 0966-0429 .- 1365-2834. ; 17:7, s. 813-821
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: To gain a deeper understanding of how Swedish head school nurses perceive their leadership in developing school health care. Background: A well-functioning school health care is important for promoting the health of children and young people. Method: Constructivist-grounded theory was used to analyse 11 individual interviews with nine head school nurses. Results Head school nurses strive to find a balance between what they experience as vague formal goals and strong informal goals which leads to creating local goals in order to develop school health care. Conclusion: The head school nurse's job is experienced as a divided and pioneering job in which there is uncertainty about the leadership role. They provide individual support to school nurses, are the link between school nurses and decision makers and highlight the importance of school nurses' work to organizational leaders. Implications for nursing management This study shows that school health care needs to be founded on evidence-based methods. Therefore, a structured plan for education and training in school health care management, based on research and in cooperation with the academic world, would develop the head school nurses' profession, strengthen the position of school health care and advance the school nurses' work.
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- Biswas, Urmi, et al.
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Ageing and values in the developments of home-based eldercare (HBEC): : Perspectives from India and Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Psychology and developing societies. - India : SAGE Publications India. - 0971-3336 .- 0973-0761. ; 32:2, s. 224-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ageing population is becoming a major concern because of its economic, political and social impact. Trusted eldercare service is an important issue for a matured nation. The paper addresses the preconditions of healthy ageing and sustainable value integrated eldercare in a developing and a developed society. In India, professional eldercare is about a decade old and is still emerging to get a foothold in the health care system. The aim is to explore understanding and values of home-based eldercare (HBEC) in India from a multiple stakeholder’s perspective and to understand the value related challenges and issues in developments with HBEC in Sweden which has a century old experience of professional and public organised eldercare. The study included 210 in-depth interviews, 105 each from India and Sweden. The in-depth interviews of various stakeholders including older individuals, their relatives, caregivers, managers and doctors. Interviews and focused group discussions were carried out across six cities in India and 10 municipalities in Sweden. The qualitative data were analysed to conceptualise the stakeholders understanding of HBEC, the values associated with care giving, perceived challenges and issues in the emerging HBEC sector in India. The findings highlight the changing values in the societies with relation to the needs and context of eldercare in both countries. These preconditions for compassion and work engagement in care giving as well as competence development in caregivers need to be strengthened in the contexts of care and in alignment with sociocultural values
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- Dellve, Lotta, 1965, et al.
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Stress and well-being among parents of children with rare diseases: a prospective intervention study
- 2006
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Ingår i: Journal of Advanced Nursing. - Oxford : Wiley. - 0309-2402 .- 1365-2648. ; 53:4, s. 392-402
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIM: This paper reports a study to assess stress, well-being and supportive resources experienced by mothers and fathers of children with rare disabilities, and how these variables were affected by an intensive family competence intervention. BACKGROUND: Despite diagnosis-specific studies, little overall knowledge exists about life-consequences for families of children with rare disorders. METHOD: We used a prospective design with baseline data and two follow-ups (at 6 and 12 months) after an intervention. The intervention aimed at empowering parents in managing their child's disability. Parents from all parts of Sweden visiting a national centre for families of children with rare disabilities were consecutively selected (n = 136 mothers, 108 fathers). Instruments of parental stress, social support, self-rated health, optimism and life satisfaction and perceived physical or psychological strain were used. Stratified analyses were carried out for mothers and fathers, and related to parental demands: single mothers, full-time employment, participation in a parent association, child's age and type of disability. RESULTS: We found high parental stress, physical and emotional strain among mothers, especially among single mothers. Fathers showed high stress related to incompetence, which decreased after the intervention. Decreased strain was found among full-time working mothers and fathers after the intervention. Parents' perceived knowledge and active coping and mothers' perceived social support were increased at follow-up. Factors related to parents' overall life satisfaction (57-70% explained variance) changed after the intervention, from being more related to internal demands (perceived strain, incompetence and social isolation) to other conditions, such as problems related to spouse, paid work and social network. CONCLUSION: Parents, especially fathers and full-time working parents, may benefit from an intensive family competence programme.
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- Persson Waye, Kerstin, 1959, et al.
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Methods for assessing preschool children's perception and experience of their soundscape. (Invited paper)
- 2006
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Ingår i: Congress and exposition of noise control engineering Inter-Noise;Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 3-6 December. - : Congress and exposition of noise control engineering Inter-Noise.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous investigations indicate that noise may be a serious health problem in preparatory schools. The high sound pressure levels originate mainly from the children’s own activities indoors. Little is known of how preschool children (1-6 years) are affected. To gain a deeper understanding of how preschool-aged children recognize, communicate, perceive and are affected by the soundscape at their preparatory school. This, in order to develop a questionnaire assessing possible adverse effects on children. 36 children (4-6 years old) were interviewed in 18 focus-groups. The interviews were analysed with grounded theory. The children described their experience of sounds related to which consequences the sound had for themselves, the type of sound, their understanding of its source and the communicability of the “sound”. Children described physical symptoms, i.e. pain in ears, stomach, head and also feeling sick. Sounds described as “screaming, crying and angering noise” was experienced as disturbing and threatening. They handled this by avoiding strategies, e.g. withdrawal and “holding their ears”. Squeaking, creaking and scratching noise was described as unexpected and as a physical experience. Background sounds were often non-reflected, unknown sounds, not easy to communicate. Based on the findings a questionnaire was developed.
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- Dellve, Lotta, et al.
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Chefsspecifika stressorer och stödresurser : betydelse för hållbart ledarskap bland chefer i vård och omsorg I
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim to assess the importance of managerial support from superior, colleagues, external, employees and private life and its importance for managers’ health- related sustainability Background. Managers and leadership can have a great importance for employees’ health related sustainability. Few published studies, have investigate what kind of support managers need to sustain in their position with preserved health. Design. A prospective cohort study with data collection 2009 and 2011. Methods. All first and second line managers for public health care in seven Swedish municipalities were included (n=344). Managers’ health related sustainability and support resources were measured with Gothenburg Manager Stress Inventory. Analysis with structured equation modeling with a crossed-lagged panel design. Results. All of the studied sources of support were cross-sectional associated with sustainable health, but only support from private life predicted health related sustainability across time. Stratified analyses revealed further prospective associations. First, among less experienced managers, all of the studied sources of support predicted at least some aspect of health-related sustainability. Second, among managers with a large span of control (>30 subordinates), external support and support through good cooperation with subordinates predicted health-related sustainability. Conclusion. It is important to provide health care mangers with adequate support, but only support through private life predicted health-related sustainability. Socializing as well as organisational support was strongly predicting sustainable health among managers new in their role and managers with a large span of control.
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- Dellve, Lotta, et al.
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Lean implementation approaches at different levels in Swedish hospitals : the impor¬tance for working conditions, worker engagement, health and performance.
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports result from one-year follow up in a research program with the overall aim to investigate how implementations of lean in health care affect working conditions, health, and performance of employees at five Swedish hospitals. This paper summarizes the implementation approaches, and their importance at short-term follow up for performance (with regard to active work with improvements), perceived working conditions and stress-related health among the healthcare workers. The implementation strategies and pace varied between the hospitals and between the strategic and operative levels. This short-term follow up showed that physical stress-related symptoms had increased overall but the cognitive stress had increased only in hospitals implementing lean. In hospitals with high implementation pace, there were more improvement work among the employees, but higher quantitative demands and lower job satisfaction.
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- Dellve, Lotta, 1965, et al.
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“Making it work in the frontline” explains female home care workers´ defining, recognising, communicating and reporting of occupational disorders.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Qualitative Studies On Health And Wellbeing. - Abingdon : Informa UK Limited. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 3:3, s. 176-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Epidemiological research has so far failed to explain the high incidence of occupational disorders among home care workers (HCWs) and the great differences in organizational incidence rate. A qualitative approach may contribute to a deeper understanding of work group reasoning and handling in a more contextual manner. The aim of this grounded theory study was to gain a deeper understanding of the main concern in the processes of recognizing, communicating and reporting occupational disorders among HCWs. Focus group interviews were conducted with 40 HCWs in 9 focus groups. The selected municipalities represented variations in municipality type and incidence rate of occupational disorders. Making it work in the frontline was identified as the core category explaining that the perceived work situation in home care work was the main concern but interacted with work-group socialising processes as well as with the communicability and derivability of the occupational disorder when defining and reporting occupational disorders. Complex problems could be reformulated and agreed within the workgroup to increase communicability. Described significances for reporting/non-reporting were related to financial compensation, to a part of organizational political game or to an existential uncertainty, i.e. questioning if it belonged to their chosen work and life. Our conclusion is that working situation and work group attitudes have importance for reporting of occupational disorders. To support work-related health for HCWs, integrating communication should be developed about work-related challenges in work situation, as well as about attitudes, culture and efficiency within work-group.
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