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Manager support for work-family issues and its impact on employee-reported pain in the extended care setting



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  • Description:
    OBJECTIVE: Supervisor-level policies and the presence of a manager engaged in an employee's need to achieve work-family balance, or "supervisory support," may benefit employee health, including self-reported pain. METHODS: We conducted a census of employees at four selected extended care facilities in the Boston metropolitan region (n = 368). Supervisory support was assessed through interviews with managers and pain was reported by employees. RESULTS: Our multilevel logistic models indicate that employees with managers who report the lowest levels of support for work-family balance experience twice as much overall pain as employees with managers who report high levels of support. CONCLUSIONS: Low supervisory support for work-family balance is associated with an increased prevalence of employee-reported pain in extended care facilities. We recommend that manager-level policies and practices receive additional attention as a potential risk factor for poor health in this setting. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    1076-2752
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Cooperative Agreement
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Volume:
    54
  • Issue:
    9
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20042130
  • Citation:
    J Occup Environ Med 2012 Sep; 54(9):1142-1149
  • Contact Point Address:
    Emily M. O'Donnell, MS, Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, SPH 3, Floor 7, Boston, MA, 02115
  • Email:
    eodonnel@hsph.harvard.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2012
  • Performing Organization:
    Portland State University
  • Peer Reviewed:
    True
  • Start Date:
    20050901
  • Source Full Name:
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • End Date:
    20081130
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:04499f4fc7f1f59b9b4a1cc57340d180ddd1bfaf263218e86e40b61efa5200b1f6f24db35858b3c4452e2b4f10dcf07e3a219abbae47b592e313b13875c37a24
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