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Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol

INTRODUCTION: Like most industrialised countries, Switzerland has introduced legislation to protect the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children from workplace exposure. This legislation provides for a risk assessment, adaptations to workplaces and, if the danger is not eliminated, preve...

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Autores principales: Krief, Peggy, Zellweger, Alessia, Politis Mercier, Maria-Pia, Danuser, Brigitta, Wild, Pascal, Zenoni, Michela, Probst, Isabelle
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29903801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023532
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author Krief, Peggy
Zellweger, Alessia
Politis Mercier, Maria-Pia
Danuser, Brigitta
Wild, Pascal
Zenoni, Michela
Probst, Isabelle
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description INTRODUCTION: Like most industrialised countries, Switzerland has introduced legislation to protect the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children from workplace exposure. This legislation provides for a risk assessment, adaptations to workplaces and, if the danger is not eliminated, preventive leave (prescribed by a gynaecologist). This study’s first objective is to analyse the degree to which companies, gynaecologists and midwives implement the law. Its second objective is to understand the obstacles and resources of this implementation, with a focus on how relevant stakeholders perceive protective measures and their involvement with them. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Data will be collected using mixed methods: (1) online questionnaires for gynaecologists and midwives; telephone questionnaires with company human resources (HR) managers in the healthcare and food production sectors; (2a) case studies of 6–8 companies in each sector, including interviews with stakeholders such as women workers, HR managers and occupational health physicians; (2b) two focus groups, one involving occupational physicians and hygienists, one involving labour inspectors. Quantitative data will be analysed statistically using STATA software V.15. Qualitative data will be transcribed and thematically analysed using MaxQDA software. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The Human Research Ethics Committee of the Canton Vaud (CER-VD) has certified that this research study protocol falls outside of the field of application of the Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Humans. The publications and recommendations resulting from this study will form the starting point for future improvements to the protection of pregnant women at work and their unborn children. This study started in February 2017 and will continue until January 2020.
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spelling pubmed-60095672018-06-25 Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol Krief, Peggy Zellweger, Alessia Politis Mercier, Maria-Pia Danuser, Brigitta Wild, Pascal Zenoni, Michela Probst, Isabelle BMJ Open Occupational and Environmental Medicine INTRODUCTION: Like most industrialised countries, Switzerland has introduced legislation to protect the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children from workplace exposure. This legislation provides for a risk assessment, adaptations to workplaces and, if the danger is not eliminated, preventive leave (prescribed by a gynaecologist). This study’s first objective is to analyse the degree to which companies, gynaecologists and midwives implement the law. Its second objective is to understand the obstacles and resources of this implementation, with a focus on how relevant stakeholders perceive protective measures and their involvement with them. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Data will be collected using mixed methods: (1) online questionnaires for gynaecologists and midwives; telephone questionnaires with company human resources (HR) managers in the healthcare and food production sectors; (2a) case studies of 6–8 companies in each sector, including interviews with stakeholders such as women workers, HR managers and occupational health physicians; (2b) two focus groups, one involving occupational physicians and hygienists, one involving labour inspectors. Quantitative data will be analysed statistically using STATA software V.15. Qualitative data will be transcribed and thematically analysed using MaxQDA software. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The Human Research Ethics Committee of the Canton Vaud (CER-VD) has certified that this research study protocol falls outside of the field of application of the Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Humans. The publications and recommendations resulting from this study will form the starting point for future improvements to the protection of pregnant women at work and their unborn children. This study started in February 2017 and will continue until January 2020. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6009567/ /pubmed/29903801 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023532 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Politis Mercier, Maria-Pia
Danuser, Brigitta
Wild, Pascal
Zenoni, Michela
Probst, Isabelle
Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title_full Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title_fullStr Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title_full_unstemmed Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title_short Protection of pregnant women at work in Switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. A mixed-methods study protocol
title_sort protection of pregnant women at work in switzerland: practices, obstacles and resources. a mixed-methods study protocol
topic Occupational and Environmental Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6009567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29903801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023532
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