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What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries

Chronic health conditions represent the major share of the disease burden in Europe and have a significant impact on work. This study aims to: (1) identify factors that have a negative or positive impact on the work lives of persons with chronic health conditions; (2) explore the needs of these pers...

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Autores principales: Foitzek, Nicole, Ávila, Carolina C., Ivandic, Ivana, Bitenc, Črtomir, Cabello, Maria, Gruber, Sonja, Leonardi, Matilde, Muñoz-Murillo, Amalia, Scaratti, Chiara, Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata, Vlachou, Anastasia, Esteban, Eva, Sabariego, Carla, Coenen, Michaela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29587433
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040595
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author Foitzek, Nicole
Ávila, Carolina C.
Ivandic, Ivana
Bitenc, Črtomir
Cabello, Maria
Gruber, Sonja
Leonardi, Matilde
Muñoz-Murillo, Amalia
Scaratti, Chiara
Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata
Vlachou, Anastasia
Esteban, Eva
Sabariego, Carla
Coenen, Michaela
author_facet Foitzek, Nicole
Ávila, Carolina C.
Ivandic, Ivana
Bitenc, Črtomir
Cabello, Maria
Gruber, Sonja
Leonardi, Matilde
Muñoz-Murillo, Amalia
Scaratti, Chiara
Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata
Vlachou, Anastasia
Esteban, Eva
Sabariego, Carla
Coenen, Michaela
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description Chronic health conditions represent the major share of the disease burden in Europe and have a significant impact on work. This study aims to: (1) identify factors that have a negative or positive impact on the work lives of persons with chronic health conditions; (2) explore the needs of these persons to maintain a job or return to work and (3) compare these results with respect to these persons’ occupational status. An online survey was performed in seven European countries. Open-ended survey questions were analyzed using qualitative methods. In total, 487 participants with six chronic health conditions participated. The majority of participants named work-related aspects (such as career development, stress at the workplace, work structure and schedule as well as workload), support of others and attitudes of others as being the factors positively and negatively impact their work lives the most. Our study shed light on the importance of changing the attitudes of supervisors and co-workers to counteract stigmatization of persons with chronic health conditions in the workplace. In conclusion, this study provides a basis for developing new strategies of integration and reintegration at work for persons with chronic health conditions in European countries.
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spelling pubmed-59236372018-05-03 What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries Foitzek, Nicole Ávila, Carolina C. Ivandic, Ivana Bitenc, Črtomir Cabello, Maria Gruber, Sonja Leonardi, Matilde Muñoz-Murillo, Amalia Scaratti, Chiara Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata Vlachou, Anastasia Esteban, Eva Sabariego, Carla Coenen, Michaela Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Chronic health conditions represent the major share of the disease burden in Europe and have a significant impact on work. This study aims to: (1) identify factors that have a negative or positive impact on the work lives of persons with chronic health conditions; (2) explore the needs of these persons to maintain a job or return to work and (3) compare these results with respect to these persons’ occupational status. An online survey was performed in seven European countries. Open-ended survey questions were analyzed using qualitative methods. In total, 487 participants with six chronic health conditions participated. The majority of participants named work-related aspects (such as career development, stress at the workplace, work structure and schedule as well as workload), support of others and attitudes of others as being the factors positively and negatively impact their work lives the most. Our study shed light on the importance of changing the attitudes of supervisors and co-workers to counteract stigmatization of persons with chronic health conditions in the workplace. In conclusion, this study provides a basis for developing new strategies of integration and reintegration at work for persons with chronic health conditions in European countries. MDPI 2018-03-26 2018-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5923637/ /pubmed/29587433 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040595 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Foitzek, Nicole
Ávila, Carolina C.
Ivandic, Ivana
Bitenc, Črtomir
Cabello, Maria
Gruber, Sonja
Leonardi, Matilde
Muñoz-Murillo, Amalia
Scaratti, Chiara
Tobiasz-Adamczyk, Beata
Vlachou, Anastasia
Esteban, Eva
Sabariego, Carla
Coenen, Michaela
What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title_full What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title_fullStr What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title_full_unstemmed What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title_short What Persons with Chronic Health Conditions Need to Maintain or Return to Work—Results of an Online-Survey in Seven European Countries
title_sort what persons with chronic health conditions need to maintain or return to work—results of an online-survey in seven european countries
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29587433
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040595
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