Do job demands and resources differ between permanent and temporary eldercare workers in Sweden?

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Annals Of Work Exposures and Health Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI:10.1093/annweh/wxae077

Nestor Lögdal, Sven Svensson, Jennie Jackson, Svend Erik Mathiassen, Gunnar Bergström, David M Hallman

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Abstract

Introduction: Eldercare organizations face high sickness absence rates and staff turnover and rely heavily on temporary workers to fill staffing gaps. Temporary workers may experience differences in job demands and resources compared with permanent workers, but this has been largely understudied.

Objective: To compare perceived job demands and resources between permanent and temporary Swedish eldercare workers.

Methods: Permanent and temporary eldercare workers in a Swedish municipality were invited to answer a digital survey on work environment conditions. Differences between permanent and temporary workers in job demands and resources were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance adjusted for age, sex, place of birth, and percent of full-time work and univariate analyses were conducted to consider differences in specific factors.

Results: A total of 1076 permanent and 675 temporary workers received the survey, and the final study sample included 451 permanent and 151 temporary workers. Multivariate analyses revealed that temporary workers reported statistically significant lower job demands compared to permanent workers, but no statistically significant differences in resources were found between the groups. Univariate analyses showed that temporary workers reported lower quantitative demands, perceived exertion, and time spent bending forward, than permanent workers. These data suggest comparable support across groups, but a higher workload among permanent workers.

Conclusion: Our findings indicate that temporary workers experienced lower job demands than permanent workers, but that no notable difference was found in resources. Interventions aimed at distributing job demands more evenly among eldercare workers with different employment forms may be necessary.

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瑞典长期和临时养老护理员的工作需求和资源是否不同？

导言：养老机构面临着高病假率和员工流失率的问题，在很大程度上依赖临时工来填补人员空缺。与长期工相比，临时工在工作要求和资源方面可能存在差异，但这方面的研究大多不足：方法：比较瑞典老年护理长期工和临时工对工作要求和资源的感知：方法：邀请瑞典某市的长期和临时养老护理员回答有关工作环境条件的数字调查。采用多变量方差分析法分析了长期工和临时工在工作要求和资源方面的差异，并对年龄、性别、出生地和全职工作百分比进行了调整，还进行了单变量分析以考虑特定因素的差异：共有 1076 名长期工和 675 名临时工接受了调查，最终研究样本包括 451 名长期工和 151 名临时工。多变量分析表明，与长期工相比，临时工的工作要求在统计意义上明显较低，但两组之间在资源方面没有发现明显差异。单变量分析表明，临时工的数量要求、感觉到的体力消耗和弯腰时间均低于长期工。这些数据表明，各组之间的支持程度相当，但长期工人的工作量更大：我们的研究结果表明，临时工的工作要求低于正式工，但在资源方面没有发现明显差异。可能有必要采取干预措施，以便在不同就业形式的护老工作者之间更均匀地分配工作需求。

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Annals Of Work Exposures and Health Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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期刊介绍： About the Journal Annals of Work Exposures and Health is dedicated to presenting advances in exposure science supporting the recognition, quantification, and control of exposures at work, and epidemiological studies on their effects on human health and well-being. A key question we apply to submission is, "Is this paper going to help readers better understand, quantify, and control conditions at work that adversely or positively affect health and well-being?" We are interested in high quality scientific research addressing: the quantification of work exposures, including chemical, biological, physical, biomechanical, and psychosocial, and the elements of work organization giving rise to such exposures; the relationship between these exposures and the acute and chronic health consequences for those exposed and their families and communities; populations at special risk of work-related exposures including women, under-represented minorities, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups such as temporary, contingent and informal sector workers; the effectiveness of interventions addressing exposure and risk including production technologies, work process engineering, and personal protective systems; policies and management approaches to reduce risk and improve health and well-being among workers, their families or communities; methodologies and mechanisms that underlie the quantification and/or control of exposure and risk. There is heavy pressure on space in the journal, and the above interests mean that we do not usually publish papers that simply report local conditions without generalizable results. We are also unlikely to publish reports on human health and well-being without information on the work exposure characteristics giving rise to the effects. We particularly welcome contributions from scientists based in, or addressing conditions in, developing economies that fall within the above scope.