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How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey
Healthcare professionals provide paid care at work and potentially have caregiving responsibilities outside of work; work responsibilities in addition to child and/or elder care is considered double- or triple-duty care. Employees may experience conflict and/or enrichment as their work and family re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33690670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248109 |
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author | Williams, Karla Eggett, Dennis Patten, Emily Vaterlaus |
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description | Healthcare professionals provide paid care at work and potentially have caregiving responsibilities outside of work; work responsibilities in addition to child and/or elder care is considered double- or triple-duty care. Employees may experience conflict and/or enrichment as their work and family responsibilities interface. This study’s purpose is to explore the work and family interface of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs), determine the prevalence of work-family conflict and enrichment, and identify characteristics associated with higher work-family conflict and enrichment scores. A survey instrument assessing caregiving responsibilities and work-family conflict and enrichment was distributed electronically to 4,900 RDNs throughout the United States. Frequencies, means, correlative relationships, and ANCOVA were calculated using SAS software 9.04. Of 1,233 usable responses, nearly two-thirds of RDNs (65.5%) reported providing either double-duty or triple-duty care. About half of RDNs (47.2%) reported work-family conflict and fewer (14.8%) reported family-work conflict. Additionally, most RDNs (79.4%) reported work-family enrichment and even more (85.2%) reported family-work enrichment. Higher work-family conflict scores had correlative relationships with higher levels of burnout, lower life satisfaction, and higher intent to quit. Higher work-family enrichment scores had correlative relationships with lower burnout, higher job satisfaction, higher career satisfaction, higher life satisfaction, and lower intent to quit. Understanding the unpaid caregiving responsibilities of RDNs and the interface of work/family responsibilities may provide insight into career planning for RDNs and guide managers of RDNs in efforts to amplify the contribution of RDNs. |
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spelling | pubmed-79462902021-03-19 How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey Williams, Karla Eggett, Dennis Patten, Emily Vaterlaus PLoS One Research Article Healthcare professionals provide paid care at work and potentially have caregiving responsibilities outside of work; work responsibilities in addition to child and/or elder care is considered double- or triple-duty care. Employees may experience conflict and/or enrichment as their work and family responsibilities interface. This study’s purpose is to explore the work and family interface of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs), determine the prevalence of work-family conflict and enrichment, and identify characteristics associated with higher work-family conflict and enrichment scores. A survey instrument assessing caregiving responsibilities and work-family conflict and enrichment was distributed electronically to 4,900 RDNs throughout the United States. Frequencies, means, correlative relationships, and ANCOVA were calculated using SAS software 9.04. Of 1,233 usable responses, nearly two-thirds of RDNs (65.5%) reported providing either double-duty or triple-duty care. About half of RDNs (47.2%) reported work-family conflict and fewer (14.8%) reported family-work conflict. Additionally, most RDNs (79.4%) reported work-family enrichment and even more (85.2%) reported family-work enrichment. Higher work-family conflict scores had correlative relationships with higher levels of burnout, lower life satisfaction, and higher intent to quit. Higher work-family enrichment scores had correlative relationships with lower burnout, higher job satisfaction, higher career satisfaction, higher life satisfaction, and lower intent to quit. Understanding the unpaid caregiving responsibilities of RDNs and the interface of work/family responsibilities may provide insight into career planning for RDNs and guide managers of RDNs in efforts to amplify the contribution of RDNs. Public Library of Science 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7946290/ /pubmed/33690670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248109 Text en © 2021 Williams et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Williams, Karla Eggett, Dennis Patten, Emily Vaterlaus How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title | How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title_full | How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title_fullStr | How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title_short | How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey |
title_sort | how work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: a national survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7946290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33690670 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248109 |
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