Barriers to workplace stress interventions in employee assistance practice: EAP perspectives

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• Personal Author:
  Azaroff LS ; Champagne NJ ; Nobrega S ; Punnett, Laura ; Shetty K
• Description:
  Occupational health literature links stressful working conditions with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, injuries, and psychological distress. We conducted individual interviews with employee assistance professionals (EAPs) to understand opportunities and barriers for EAPs to address job stress through organization level interventions. EAPs described their primary role as assisting individual employees versus designing company wide interventions. The most salient barriers to organization level interventions cited were lack of access to company management and (for contracted EAPs) perceptions of contract vulnerability. Education about workplace stress interventions may be most effectively directed at EAPs who are already integrated with company level work groups. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Employee Assistance Practice Job Stress Mental Health Stress Interventions Stress Reduction Total Worker Health Work Environment Work Organization Workplace Interventions Workplace Stress
• ISSN:
  1555-5240
• 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:
  282-295
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041228
• Citation:
  J Workplace Behav Health 2010 Nov; 25(4):282-295
• Contact Point Address:
  Suzanne Nobrega, MS, Department of Work Environment, One University Avenue, 200 Kitson Hall, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854
• Email:
  suzanne_nobrega@uml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health
• End Date:
  20210831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d3797c61fd1a45b351489a783b201a90722d8a2a04590146fa364b5799d0561bda14779b953a7bab21c9a505c27be9205ee3761df8da7b1d143a9a3e5168d130
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193836/cdc_193836_DS1.pdf
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