Job Strain Predicts Survey Response in Healthcare Industry Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Boyer J ; Cifuentes M ; d'Errico A ; Gore R ; Kriebel D ; Lerner- ; Punnett, Laura ; Scollin P ; Slatin C ; Tessler J
• Description:
  OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of job strain on survey response. METHODS: 1,613 health care workers received a self-administered questionnaire. Thirty percent of them completed the survey on personal time without any personal monetary compensation. Working conditions were extracted by job title from the national database O*NET 6.0. Job strain was defined as the ratio of job demands to job control. Two complementary models (multi-level logistic and binomial pseudo Poisson regressions) were used to model individual survey response as a function of individual level demographic variables (age and gender), job-level socioeconomic status (SES) and job strain, and facility type (third level). RESULTS: Survey response was associated with higher SES and with less job strain. The association of SES and survey response was mediated by job strain. CONCLUSION: Employees' exposure to job strain may be an important influence on survey response, at least for workers who are not compensated for their time in completing a survey. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Analytical-methods Analytical-processes Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-services Job-stress Physicians Psychological-adaptation Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Psychological-reactions Psychological-responses Quantitative-analysis Questionnaires Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Stress Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• 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:
  281-289
• Volume:
  51
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034057
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2008 Apr; 51(4):281-289
• Contact Point Address:
  Manuel Cifuentes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Work Environment, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854
• Email:
  Manuel_Cifuentes@nml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts - Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20000930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  urn:sha-512:0d85c2cd253f3a52e5660573a42c666d13160bad9561cc2bd086c0fa12608453e1885161152f6e47a399a048532ab57a6250bf821ae647efa0ba8876742fabd9
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189434/cdc_189434_DS1.pdf
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