Housework and recovery from work among nursing teams: a gender perspective

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• Personal Author:
  de Jesus Mendes Fonseca M ; Gomes L ; Griep RH ; Pessanha J ; Portela LF ; Rotenberg L
• Description:
  The impact on health of work carried out within the household is recognized by several authors in the occupational health field. The purpose of this article is to verify whether and to what extent the need for recovery is related to professional work hours and to housework duties in female nursing workers. Workers (N = 1122) completed a questionnaire with data on household chores and professional work, as well as the Need for Recovery from Work scale. Regression analysis showed that the odds for reporting poor recovery were significantly higher for workers showing long domestic work hours, high total work load (professional plus domestic work hours), and housework overload. No association was found for professional work hours per se. Findings highlight the potential detrimental effects of housework, either by itself or in combination with professional work for the group studied, and can generate discussion on gender equality in both the public and private domains. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Emotional-stress Household-workers Humans Nurses Nursing Physical-capacity Physical-stress Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  497-510
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041797
• Citation:
  New Solut 2010 Oct; 20(4):497-510
• Contact Point Address:
  Lúcia Rotenberg, Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, CEP: 21.045-900
• Email:
  rotenber@ioc.fiocruz.br
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080801
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20100731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:79b696c312497dec04f3a576a022216be2ca075ad2c632919e1c1e37b9fa7adeaafd9f0b57ffd4c6981643e4f9fcdca569a75afc0e299d099845aca181ae67c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194255/cdc_194255_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 99.29 KB ]