How Client Death Impacts Home Care Aides’ Workforce Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis of Return to Work and Job Retention

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Beato L ; Tsui EK ; Verkuilen J ; Wyka K
• Description:
  Home health aides face a range of stressors that may result in departing the workforce. One stressor that has emerged in multiple qualitative studies as potentially influencing retention is client death. Using 2019 data from a single agency in New York City employing approximately 1700 aides, we used logistic and linear regression to explore case and aide factors associated with workforce outcomes after client death. We found that longer case length (Beta = 0.01, p < .001) was associated with longer return to work for aides experiencing client death and longer job tenure (Beta = -0.002, p = .002) was associated with shorter return to work (n = 67). We found no difference in retention between aides who experienced client death and those who did not (n 216). This analysis suggests the importance of research on the period of time following client death and of offering support to aides after clients die, particularly after longer cases. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Home Care Services Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Caregiving Community And Home Care Health Care Workers Home Health Care Job Stress Long-term Care Mental Health Psychological Effects Return To Work Staffing Pattern Staff Roles Turnover Work Intervals Work Issues

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• ISSN:
  0162-1424
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  230-242
• Volume:
  42
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069014
• Citation:
  Home Health Care Serv Q 2023 Jul-Sep; 42(3):230-242
• Contact Point Address:
  Emma K. Tsui, Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, USA
• Email:
  emma.tsui@sph.cuny.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20190901
• Source Full Name:
  Home Health Care Services Quarterly
• End Date:
  20220831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:537b413c8f12842c96464948f181d11ca9d85ca1e6922ee15788aba1c385d70323f70ab1745b2598f83e040cb6cf59e5e949beda8a58933eca84f7e177bd022b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207570/cdc_207570_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.21 MB ]