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Exploring reasons for sick leave due to common mental disorders from the perspective of employees and managers – what has gender got to do with it?

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the employee and the managerial experience of reasons for sick leave due to CMDs in relation to work and private life, through the lens of a transactional perspective of everyday life occupation and gender norms. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews w...

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Autores principales: Holmlund, Lisa, Tinnerholm Ljungberg, Helena, Bültmann, Ute, Holmgren, Kristina, Björk Brämberg, Elisabeth
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35341475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2022.2054081
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Tinnerholm Ljungberg, Helena
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Holmgren, Kristina
Björk Brämberg, Elisabeth
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description PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the employee and the managerial experience of reasons for sick leave due to CMDs in relation to work and private life, through the lens of a transactional perspective of everyday life occupation and gender norms. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 employees on sick leave due to CMDs and 11 managers. By using transactional and gender perspectives in a reflexive thematic analysis, themes were generated in a constant comparative process. FINDINGS: Four themes were identified: a) struggling to keep up with work pressure and worker norms; b) struggling with insecurity in an unsupportive work environment; c) managing private responsibilities through flexible work schedules, and d) managing emotions alongside unfavourable working conditions. CONCLUSION: Sick leave due to CMDs was understood as related to experiences of accumulated events situated in different social, cultural, and societal contexts of everyday life. Practices and policies should encourage an open dialogue about work and private life and health between employees and managers. To build healthy and sustainable work environments practices should also aim for increased awareness of social norms. A better understanding may facilitate the identification of situations in work and private life that are problematic for the employee.
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spelling pubmed-89595172022-03-29 Exploring reasons for sick leave due to common mental disorders from the perspective of employees and managers – what has gender got to do with it? Holmlund, Lisa Tinnerholm Ljungberg, Helena Bültmann, Ute Holmgren, Kristina Björk Brämberg, Elisabeth Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Studies PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the employee and the managerial experience of reasons for sick leave due to CMDs in relation to work and private life, through the lens of a transactional perspective of everyday life occupation and gender norms. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 employees on sick leave due to CMDs and 11 managers. By using transactional and gender perspectives in a reflexive thematic analysis, themes were generated in a constant comparative process. FINDINGS: Four themes were identified: a) struggling to keep up with work pressure and worker norms; b) struggling with insecurity in an unsupportive work environment; c) managing private responsibilities through flexible work schedules, and d) managing emotions alongside unfavourable working conditions. CONCLUSION: Sick leave due to CMDs was understood as related to experiences of accumulated events situated in different social, cultural, and societal contexts of everyday life. Practices and policies should encourage an open dialogue about work and private life and health between employees and managers. To build healthy and sustainable work environments practices should also aim for increased awareness of social norms. A better understanding may facilitate the identification of situations in work and private life that are problematic for the employee. Taylor & Francis 2022-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8959517/ /pubmed/35341475 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2022.2054081 Text en © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35341475
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2022.2054081
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