Impact of a manager-oriented intervention on occupational exposures and well-being among pregnant hospital and day-care employees: A cluster randomised trial
| Autor: | Paula Edeusa Cristina Hammer, Charlotte Brauer, Luise Mølenberg Begtrup, Sandra Søgaard Tøttenborg, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Jens Peter Bonde, Johan Høy Jensen, Per Malmros |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Pregnancy
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Day care medicine.disease Affect (psychology) Disease cluster 030210 environmental & occupational health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Work (electrical) Intervention (counseling) Family medicine Well-being Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of public health. |
| ISSN: | 1651-1905 |
| Popis: | 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. |
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