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The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals

Participatory shift scheduling for irregular working hours can influence shift schedules and sickness absence. We investigated the effects of using participatory shift scheduling and shift schedule evaluation tools on working hour characteristics and sickness absence. We utilized a panel data for 20...

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Autores principales: Turunen, Jarno, Karhula, Kati, Ropponen, Annina, Koskinen, Aki, Shiri, Rahman, Sallinen, Mikael, Ervasti, Jenni, Pehkonen, Jaakko, Härmä, Mikko
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9690287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36429372
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214654
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author Turunen, Jarno
Karhula, Kati
Ropponen, Annina
Koskinen, Aki
Shiri, Rahman
Sallinen, Mikael
Ervasti, Jenni
Pehkonen, Jaakko
Härmä, Mikko
author_facet Turunen, Jarno
Karhula, Kati
Ropponen, Annina
Koskinen, Aki
Shiri, Rahman
Sallinen, Mikael
Ervasti, Jenni
Pehkonen, Jaakko
Härmä, Mikko
author_sort Turunen, Jarno
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description Participatory shift scheduling for irregular working hours can influence shift schedules and sickness absence. We investigated the effects of using participatory shift scheduling and shift schedule evaluation tools on working hour characteristics and sickness absence. We utilized a panel data for 2015−2019 with 16,557 hospital employees (6143 in the intervention and 10,345 in the control group). Difference-in-differences regression with ward-level clustered standard errors was used to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated coefficients relative to timing of the intervention with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Using participatory scheduling tool increased long working hours and weekend work and had delayed effects on the short (1–3 days) sickness absences. Increased effects were observed: 0.2 [95% CI 0.0−0.4] days for the second, and 0.8 [95% CI 0.5−1.0] for the third year after the onset of intervention. An average increase of 0.5 [95% CI 0.1−0.9] episodes on all sickness absence episodes was observed for the third year. Using the shift schedule evaluation tool with the participatory shift scheduling tool attenuated the adverse effects. To conclude, participatory shift scheduling increased some potentially harmful working hour characteristics but its effects on sickness absence were negligible, and further attenuated by using the shift schedule evaluation tool.
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spelling pubmed-96902872022-11-25 The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals Turunen, Jarno Karhula, Kati Ropponen, Annina Koskinen, Aki Shiri, Rahman Sallinen, Mikael Ervasti, Jenni Pehkonen, Jaakko Härmä, Mikko Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Participatory shift scheduling for irregular working hours can influence shift schedules and sickness absence. We investigated the effects of using participatory shift scheduling and shift schedule evaluation tools on working hour characteristics and sickness absence. We utilized a panel data for 2015−2019 with 16,557 hospital employees (6143 in the intervention and 10,345 in the control group). Difference-in-differences regression with ward-level clustered standard errors was used to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated coefficients relative to timing of the intervention with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Using participatory scheduling tool increased long working hours and weekend work and had delayed effects on the short (1–3 days) sickness absences. Increased effects were observed: 0.2 [95% CI 0.0−0.4] days for the second, and 0.8 [95% CI 0.5−1.0] for the third year after the onset of intervention. An average increase of 0.5 [95% CI 0.1−0.9] episodes on all sickness absence episodes was observed for the third year. Using the shift schedule evaluation tool with the participatory shift scheduling tool attenuated the adverse effects. To conclude, participatory shift scheduling increased some potentially harmful working hour characteristics but its effects on sickness absence were negligible, and further attenuated by using the shift schedule evaluation tool. MDPI 2022-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9690287/ /pubmed/36429372 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214654 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Turunen, Jarno
Karhula, Kati
Ropponen, Annina
Koskinen, Aki
Shiri, Rahman
Sallinen, Mikael
Ervasti, Jenni
Pehkonen, Jaakko
Härmä, Mikko
The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title_full The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title_fullStr The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title_full_unstemmed The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title_short The Time-Varying Effect of Participatory Shift Scheduling on Working Hour Characteristics and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Hospitals
title_sort time-varying effect of participatory shift scheduling on working hour characteristics and sickness absence: evidence from a quasi-experiment in hospitals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9690287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36429372
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214654
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