Associations Among Patient Care Workers’ Schedule Control, Sleep, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intentions

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• Personal Author:
  Bodner TE ; Brossoit RM ; Buxton OM ; Crain TL ; Hammer LB ; Lee, Stephen A.
• Description:
  Healthcare is the fastest growing occupational sector in America, yet patient care workers experience low job satisfaction, high turnover, and susceptibility to poor sleep compared to workers in other jobs and industries. Increasing schedule control may be one way to help mitigate these issues. Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we evaluate associations among schedule control (i.e. a contextual resource), employee sleep duration and quality (i.e. personal resources), job satisfaction, and turnover intentions. Patient care workers who reported having more schedule control at baseline reported greater sleep duration and sleep quality 6 months later, as well as higher job satisfaction and lower turnover intentions 12 months later. Workers who experienced greater sleep sufficiency (i.e. feeling well-rested) reported higher job satisfaction 6 months later, and workers who experienced fewer insomnia symptoms (i.e. trouble falling and staying asleep) reported lower turnover intentions 6 months later. The association between schedule control and job satisfaction was partially mediated by greater sleep sufficiency, though this effect was small. Providing patient care workers with greater control over their work schedules and opportunities for improved sleep may improve their job attitudes. Results were not replicated when different analytical approaches were performed, so findings should be interpreted provisionally. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fatigue Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Sleep Sleep Initiation And Maintenance Disorders
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Job Satisfaction Health Care Personnel Health Care Workers Patient Care Schedule Control Sleep Deprivation Sleep Duration Sleep Quality Turnover Intentions Work Intervals Work Schedules

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• ISSN:
  1532-3005
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Florida ; Massachusetts ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  442-456
• Volume:
  36
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059873
• Citation:
  Stress Health 2020 Oct; 36(4):442-456
• Contact Point Address:
  Rebecca M. Brossoit, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University 1876 Campus Delivery. Fort Collins, CO 80523-1876, USA
• Email:
  rebecca.brossoit@colostate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Colorado, Denver
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070701
• Source Full Name:
  Stress and Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b427331efa16f57a79d142db82baf9be638b6ff20e5cd330314adffd187078b730bd4ca060aa39256aa088dde3644ccc9df1546926ccbff0e3229a3a08671e56
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223930/cdc_223930_DS1.pdf
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