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Worker perspectives on the impact of non-standard workdays on worker and family well-being: A qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Non-standard work schedules (NSWSs), occurring outside of regular and predictable daytime hours, may negatively affect worker and family health. This qualitative study sought to understand worker perspectives on the health and well-being impacts of NSWSs among full-time, transportation m...

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Autores principales: Suleiman, Adekemi O., Decker, Ragan E., Garza, Jennifer L., Laguerre, Rick A., Dugan, Alicia G., Cavallari, Jennifer M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34879831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12265-8
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author Suleiman, Adekemi O.
Decker, Ragan E.
Garza, Jennifer L.
Laguerre, Rick A.
Dugan, Alicia G.
Cavallari, Jennifer M.
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Garza, Jennifer L.
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Dugan, Alicia G.
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description BACKGROUND: Non-standard work schedules (NSWSs), occurring outside of regular and predictable daytime hours, may negatively affect worker and family health. This qualitative study sought to understand worker perspectives on the health and well-being impacts of NSWSs among full-time, transportation maintainers, correctional, and manufacturing workers. METHODS: Forty-nine workers participated in 8 focus groups. Data were transcribed and analyzed with ATLAS.ti, using the constant comparative method to identify themes and sub-themes. RESULTS: Workers reported that long work hours and irregular and unpredictable schedules posed the biggest obstacles to their well-being. Workers reported that NSWSs were associated with behavior impacts (poor family and social connections, poor eating, poor sleep, lack of exercise recovery), physical health impacts (exhaustion, weight gain) and extended work exposures (increased stress, increased accidents). CONCLUSIONS: This highlights the importance of developing and implementing effective workplace interventions to address these barriers to health and health behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-86520922021-12-08 Worker perspectives on the impact of non-standard workdays on worker and family well-being: A qualitative study Suleiman, Adekemi O. Decker, Ragan E. Garza, Jennifer L. Laguerre, Rick A. Dugan, Alicia G. Cavallari, Jennifer M. BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Non-standard work schedules (NSWSs), occurring outside of regular and predictable daytime hours, may negatively affect worker and family health. This qualitative study sought to understand worker perspectives on the health and well-being impacts of NSWSs among full-time, transportation maintainers, correctional, and manufacturing workers. METHODS: Forty-nine workers participated in 8 focus groups. Data were transcribed and analyzed with ATLAS.ti, using the constant comparative method to identify themes and sub-themes. RESULTS: Workers reported that long work hours and irregular and unpredictable schedules posed the biggest obstacles to their well-being. Workers reported that NSWSs were associated with behavior impacts (poor family and social connections, poor eating, poor sleep, lack of exercise recovery), physical health impacts (exhaustion, weight gain) and extended work exposures (increased stress, increased accidents). CONCLUSIONS: This highlights the importance of developing and implementing effective workplace interventions to address these barriers to health and health behaviors. BioMed Central 2021-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8652092/ /pubmed/34879831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12265-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Dugan, Alicia G.
Cavallari, Jennifer M.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8652092/
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