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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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Sep 2012
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Source: J Occup Environ Med. 54(9):1142-1149.
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Alternative Title:J Occup Environ Med
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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.
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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 employee-reported.
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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.
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Pubmed ID:22892547
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Pubmed Central ID:PMC3439598
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