Developing and evaluating Compassionate Workplace Programs to promote health and wellbeing around serious illness, dying and loss in the workplace (EU-CoWork): a transdisciplinary, cross-national research project.

Autor: Vanderstichelen S; End-of-life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, Building K, Brussels 1090, Belgium.; Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise (COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium., De Moortel D; Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise (COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.; Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (BRISPO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium., Nielsen K; Sheffield University Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK., Wegleitner K; Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.; Sorgenetz - Association for the Promotion of Societal Care Culture. Life/Ageing/Dementia/Dying, Vienna, Austria., Eneslätt M; Department of Health, Education and Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden.; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden., Sardiello T; Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden., Martos D; Sorgenetz - Association for the Promotion of Societal Care Culture. Life/Ageing/Dementia/Dying, Vienna, Austria., Webster J; Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Science Division, Buxton, UK., Nikandrou I; Department of Marketing and Communication, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece., Delvaux E; IDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, Leuven, Belgium., Tishelman C; End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.; Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden., Cohen J; Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise (COCO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.; End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Palliative care and social practice [Palliat Care Soc Pract] 2024 Sep 25; Vol. 18, pp. 26323524241281070. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 25 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1177/26323524241281070
Abstrakt: Background: Most employees will experience serious illness, caregiving, dying and loss (End-of-Life (EoL) experiences) at multiple points throughout their working lives. These experiences impact affected employees but also their colleagues in terms of health and wellbeing, and the workplace as a whole in terms of workplace safety, productivity and labour relations. The impact of EoL experiences on employees means that workplaces are called to play a more active role in providing support for EoL experiences.
Aim: To describe how the EU-CoWork (2024-2028) project addresses its main aims to (1) create Compassionate Workplace cultures, practices and policies and improve health and wellbeing for employees dealing with EoL experiences in different national work contexts in Europe; (2) describe and evaluate the process of co-creation and implementation of Compassionate Workplace Programs (CWPs) and how these influence the programs' outcomes.
Design: EU-CoWork employs a facilitated and co-creative Developmental Evaluation approach to the development of 12 tailored CWPs across four European countries (Belgium, Austria, Sweden and Greece).
Methods: To evaluate the outcomes and processes leading to these outcomes, a mixed-methods Realist Evaluation methodology is applied, formulating and testing Context-Mechanism-Outcomes configurations and combining longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data collections.
Results: EU-CoWork will generate evidence to support an expanded model of occupational health and safety risk factors sensitive to the specific challenges related to employees' EoL experiences. In doing so, several challenges will have to be navigated: involving employees with EoL experiences while avoiding overburdening them, avoiding tokenistic engagement, managing power differentials, balancing the need for scientific rigour with the flexibility required in co-creation, reconciling different epistemologies and disciplinary traditions and organisational resistance to change.
Conclusion: There are potential long-lasting broader societal impacts through the stimulation of open discourse on EoL topics, the reconciliation of work and care, and changes in gendered work and care patterns.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
(© The Author(s), 2024.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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