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Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study
BACKGROUND: Mental health complaints are quite common in health care employees and can have adverse effects on work functioning. The aim of this study was to evaluate an e-mental health (EMH) approach to workers' health surveillance (WHS) for nurses and allied health professionals. Using the wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266797/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25516815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.08.002 |
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author | Ketelaar, Sarah M. Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen Bolier, Linda Smeets, Odile Sluiter, Judith K. |
author_facet | Ketelaar, Sarah M. Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen Bolier, Linda Smeets, Odile Sluiter, Judith K. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Mental health complaints are quite common in health care employees and can have adverse effects on work functioning. The aim of this study was to evaluate an e-mental health (EMH) approach to workers' health surveillance (WHS) for nurses and allied health professionals. Using the waiting-list group of a previous randomized controlled trial with high dropout and low compliance to the intervention, we studied the pre- and posteffects of the EMH approach in a larger group of participants. METHODS: We applied a pretest–posttest study design. The WHS consisted of online screening on impaired work functioning and mental health followed by online automatically generated personalized feedback, online tailored advice, and access to self-help EMH interventions. The effects on work functioning, stress, and work-related fatigue after 3 months were analyzed using paired t tests and effect sizes. RESULTS: One hundred and twenty-eight nurses and allied health professionals participated at pretest as well as posttest. Significant improvements were found on work functioning (p = 0.01) and work-related fatigue (p < 0.01). Work functioning had relevantly improved in 30% of participants. A small meaningful effect on stress was found (Cohen d = .23) in the participants who had logged onto an EMH intervention (20%, n = 26). CONCLUSION: The EMH approach to WHS improves the work functioning and mental health of nurses and allied health professionals. However, because we found small effects and participation in the offered EMH interventions was low, there is ample room for improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-42667972014-12-16 Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study Ketelaar, Sarah M. Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen Bolier, Linda Smeets, Odile Sluiter, Judith K. Saf Health Work Original Article BACKGROUND: Mental health complaints are quite common in health care employees and can have adverse effects on work functioning. The aim of this study was to evaluate an e-mental health (EMH) approach to workers' health surveillance (WHS) for nurses and allied health professionals. Using the waiting-list group of a previous randomized controlled trial with high dropout and low compliance to the intervention, we studied the pre- and posteffects of the EMH approach in a larger group of participants. METHODS: We applied a pretest–posttest study design. The WHS consisted of online screening on impaired work functioning and mental health followed by online automatically generated personalized feedback, online tailored advice, and access to self-help EMH interventions. The effects on work functioning, stress, and work-related fatigue after 3 months were analyzed using paired t tests and effect sizes. RESULTS: One hundred and twenty-eight nurses and allied health professionals participated at pretest as well as posttest. Significant improvements were found on work functioning (p = 0.01) and work-related fatigue (p < 0.01). Work functioning had relevantly improved in 30% of participants. A small meaningful effect on stress was found (Cohen d = .23) in the participants who had logged onto an EMH intervention (20%, n = 26). CONCLUSION: The EMH approach to WHS improves the work functioning and mental health of nurses and allied health professionals. However, because we found small effects and participation in the offered EMH interventions was low, there is ample room for improvement. 2014-09-16 2014-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4266797/ /pubmed/25516815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.08.002 Text en © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ketelaar, Sarah M. Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen Bolier, Linda Smeets, Odile Sluiter, Judith K. Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title | Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title_full | Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title_fullStr | Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title_short | Improving Work Functioning and Mental Health of Health Care Employees Using an E-Mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance: Pretest–Posttest Study |
title_sort | improving work functioning and mental health of health care employees using an e-mental health approach to workers' health surveillance: pretest–posttest study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266797/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25516815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.08.002 |
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