Supervisors' support for nurses' meal breaks and mental health

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• Personal Author:
  Hashimoto D ; Hurtado DA ; Nelson CC ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  Meal breaks promote occupational health and safety; however, less is known about supervisors' support for nurses' meal breaks. In this study, the researchers tested whether the frequency of meal breaks was positively related to supervisors' support of nurses' meal breaks, and whether more frequent meal breaks were associated with less psychological distress. This study is based on a cross-sectional survey of 1,595 hospital nurses working on 85 units supervised by nursing directors. Specific mealbreak support was measured at the nursing director level; frequency of meal breaks and psychological distress were measured at the individual nurse level. Multilevel adjusted models showed a positive association between supervisors' support for meal breaks and the frequency of nurses' meal breaks (beta = .16, p < .001). Moreover, nurses who took meal breaks more frequently reported lower psychological distress (beta = -.09, p < .05). Meal breaks might be daily opportunities to promote mental health and fatigue recovery and provide downtime. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Health Promotion Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Analytical-models Author Keywords: Supervisor Support Food Foodstuff Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Health-programs Health-surveys Hospital Nurses Humans Meal Breaks Mental-fatigue Mental-health Mental-stress Mental Health Nurses Occupational-health Psychological-fatigue Psychological-stress Questionnaires Rest-periods Sociological-factors Supervisory-personnel Total-Worker-Health Work-intervals Work-operations Work-organization Work-practices Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  2165-0799
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  107-115
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046743
• Citation:
  Workplace Health Saf 2015 Mar; 63(3):107-115
• Contact Point Address:
  David A. Hurtado, ScD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Building 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, USA
• Email:
  dhurtado@mail.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Workplace Health & Safety
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1dc0703e0779fdc2237e9df606252d9148094ca8292d6b21fd936985763d97ae129ad090e3078f4d7e9f74e79311ab3a51c3c20d581b6d7df4ccd0ab0e509a2e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202075/cdc_202075_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 473.65 KB ]