Title
Work Stress Interventions in Hospital Care: Effectiveness of the DISCovery Method
Author
Niks, I.M.W.
Gevers, J.M.P.
de Jonge, J.
Houtman, I.L.D.
Publication year
2018
Abstract
Effective interventions to prevent work stress and to improve health, well-being, and performance of employees are of the utmost importance. This quasi-experimental intervention study presents a specific method for diagnosis of psychosocial risk factors at work and subsequent development and implementation of tailored work stress interventions, the so-called DISCovery method. This method aims at improving employee health, well-being, and performance by optimizing the balance between job demands, job resources, and recovery from work. The aim of the study is to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the DISCovery method in hospital care. Specifically, we used a three-wave longitudinal, quasi-experimental multiple-case study approach with intervention and comparison groups in health care work. Positive changes were found for members of the intervention groups, relative to members of the corresponding comparison groups, with respect to targeted work-related characteristics and targeted health, well-being, and performance outcomes. Overall, results lend support for the effectiveness of the DISCovery method in hospital care.
Subject
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Life
Healthy Living
Work and Employment
Work stress
Job demands
Job resources
Off-job recovery
Interventions
DISC-R Model
DISCovery method
Multiple-case study
Health care workers
Health care
Health worker
Hospital sector
Modeling
Occupational exposure
Stress
Working conditions
Comparative effectiveness
Controlled study
Health care personnel
Hospital care
Human
Job stress
Outcome assessment
Wellbeing
WHC - Work, Health and Care
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15020332
TNO identifier
785279
Source
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15 (15), 332
Document type
article