Planning for Parental Leave: Leveraging Total Worker Health to Support Pregnant Working Women

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• Personal Author:
  Daigle K
• Description:
  This inductive, exploratory study aimed to increase our understanding about the parental leave and return to work process by exploring the pre-leave stage. Pre-leave (i.e., working while pregnant) encompasses the time when the employee discovers she is pregnant and starts to anticipate working while pregnant and her leave experience. Fisher and colleagues (2016) noted that the "pre-leave stage involves the physical changes among mothers, as well as the social and psychological factors that become salient in anticipating and preparing for parenthood which affects both parents" (Fisher et al., 2016). This stage of transitioning into motherhood impacts not only the mother's life, but has the potential to impact the child's well-being, and other stakeholders in the workplace (e.g., coworkers, supervisors, subordinates). This notion is supported by research which suggests that planning for affordable and acceptable childcare contributes to the working mother's and child's well-being during later stages of the process (Fisher et al., 2016). We conducted semi-structured interview questions to address these research questions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Men Occupational Health Pregnancy Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Women
• Keywords:
  Children Families Health Surveys Legislation Policy Questionnaires Return To Work Total Worker Health TWH Work-life Balance Workers Work Intervals Work Operations Work Organization

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• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  32
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058094
• Citation:
  Work, Stress and Health 2019, November 6-9, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2019 Nov; :32
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20070701
• Source Full Name:
  Work, Stress and Health 2019, November 6-9, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9702a0d4e11a6ffc5a62c33ae1bba0a50cacbb48988b29bc7a49928dc5743278674a25a82892d60b228c2ed95a6ed73231382e8d32f295c8219ce64d901cb010
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221248/cdc_221248_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 110.28 KB ]