Associations among patient care workers’ schedule control, sleep, job satisfaction and turnover intentions

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• Alternative Title:
  Stress Health
• Personal Author:
  Brossoit, Rebecca M. ; Crain, Tori L. ; Hammer, Leslie B. ; Lee, Soomi ; Bodner, Todd E. ; Buxton, Orfeu M.
• Description:
  Healthcare is the fastest growing occupational sector in America, yet patient care workers experience low job satisfaction, high turnover, and susceptibility to poor sleep compared to workers in other jobs and industries. Increasing schedule control may be one way to help mitigate these issues. Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we evaluate associations among schedule control (i.e. a contextual resource), employee sleep duration and quality (i.e. personal resources), job satisfaction, and turnover intentions. Patient care workers who reported having more schedule control at baseline reported greater sleep duration and sleep quality 6 months later, as well as higher job satisfaction and lower turnover intentions 12 months later. Workers who experienced greater sleep sufficiency (i.e. feeling well-rested) reported higher job satisfaction 6 months later, and workers who experienced fewer insomnia symptoms (i.e. trouble falling and staying asleep) reported lower turnover intentions 6 months later. The association between schedule control and job satisfaction was partially mediated by greater sleep sufficiency, though this effect was small. Providing patient care workers with greater control over their work schedules and opportunities for improved sleep may improve their job attitudes. Results were not replicated when different analytical approaches were performed, so findings should be interpreted provisionally.
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Humans Intention Job Satisfaction Personnel Staffing And Scheduling Personnel Turnover Sleep
• Keywords:
  Job Satisfaction Patient Care Schedule Control Sleep Duration Sleep Quality Turnover Intentions
• Source:
  Stress Health. 36(4):442-456
• Pubmed ID:
  32181575
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8919502
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U01HD051218/National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01HD051256/National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; T42OH009229/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; AF/ACF HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051256/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01HL107240/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/ ; Alfred P Sloan Foundation/ ; U01HD059773/Office of Behavioral and Science Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/ ; U01 AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; NIH/NIA SBIR R43AG056250/Mobile Sleep Technologies/ ; T42 OH009229/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; William T. Grant Foundation/ ; U01AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R43 AG056250/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051217/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; NSF/STTR #1622766/Mobile Sleep Technologies/ ; U01HD051217/National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01HD051276/National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/ ; U01OH008788/Office of Behavioral and Science Sciences Research, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/ ; U01 OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HL107240/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD059773/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051276/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051218/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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  urn:sha-512:8c02750982680e3a851f9febe0e4c45267527c1f1c22e78fd1e7be9e5062a144dbfe8ba3f4e27551e364d62c1565233a7dd652fddd2068c7057b1412555233e9
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