Benchmarking working conditions for health and safety in the frontline healthcare industry: Perspectives from Australia and Malaysia

McLinton, Sarven S.; Loh, May Young; Dollard, Maureen F.; Tuckey, Michelle R.; Idris, Mohd Awang B; Morton, S

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“…28 However, the PSC construct has been used widely across a range of different samples demonstrating similar relationships. [55][56][57][58] In this study, PSC was also used as a continuous measure and showed similar results.…”

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Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study

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ObjectivesThis study sought to assess the association between long working hours, psychosocial safety climate (PSC), work engagement (WE) and new major depression symptoms emerging over the next 12 months. PSC is the work climate supporting workplace psychological health.SettingAustralian prospective cohort population data from the states of New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.ParticipantsAt Time 1, there were 3921 respondents in the sample. Self-employed, casual temporary, unclassified, those with working hours <35 (37% of 2850) and participants with major depression symptoms at Time 1 (6.7% of 1782) were removed. The final sample was a population-based cohort of 1084 full-time Australian employees.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe planned and measured outcomes were new cases of major depression symptoms.ResultsLong working hours were not significantly related to new cases of major depression symptoms; however, when mild cases were removed, the 41–48 and ≥55 long working hour categories were positively related to major depression symptoms. Low PSC was associated with a threefold increase in risk for new major depression symptoms. PSC was not related to long working hours, and long working hours did not mediate the relationship between PSC and new cases of major depression symptoms. The inverse relationship between PSC and major depression symptoms was stronger for males than females. Additional analyses identified that WE was positively related to long working hours. Long working hours (41–48 and ≥55 hours) mediated a positive relationship between WE and major depression symptoms when mild cases of major depression were removed.ConclusionThe results suggest that low workplace PSC and potentially long working hours (41–48; ≥55 hours/week) increase the risk of new major depression symptoms. Furthermore, high WE may increase long working hours and subsequent major depression symptoms.

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Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study

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“…Because nurses generally tend to be exposed to higher levels of job demands than many other workers (Hu et al, 2016), nurses can be expected to present higher levels of global and specific (cognitive weariness, physical fatigue, and emotional exhaustion) burnout and/or be overrepresented into profiles characterized by the highest levels of burnout across dimensions (e.g., a High Burnout profile), when compared to mixed employees. For instance, McLinton et al (2018) showed that Australian health care workers (including registered nurses) displayed significantly higher levels of burnout (M = 4.27 on a seven-point scale ranging from 1 to 7) than a general community sample of employed Australians (M = 3.17). Similarly, Malaysian health care workers were characterized by higher levels of burnout (M = 4.07) than a general community sample of private sector Malaysian workers (M = 2.64).…”

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Burnout profiles: dimensionality, replicability, and associations with predictors and outcomes

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“…This result is consistent with previous studies that suggest healthcare accreditation standards are generally considered an important benchmark for the attributes of healthcare professionals to improve clinical safety practice. 43 However, the evidence about whether accreditation standards significantly change healthcare professional’s safety behaviors with the effect of safety climate and safety attitudes is equivocal and determined by circumstances such as psychosocial working conditions, 44 national culture, 45 and government health and safety policies. 46…”

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Integrating Safety Attitudes and Safety Stressors into Safety Climate and Safety Behavior Relations: The Case of Healthcare Professionals in Abu Dhabi

2019

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ObjectivesHow safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors are related remains unexplored in the literature, with no study so far investigating the moderating path of safety stressors between these variables. We sought to understand the path through which safety climates may affect safety-behavior-related outcomes, such as safety compliance and participation, through the integration of safety attitudes. Since this study is related to the safety-related perception-intention-behavior relationship, safety stressors are proposed as a moderator of this relationship.MethodsA total of 770 healthcare professionals working in public hospitals across Abu Dhabi were randomly selected for this study. We used questionnaires covering demographic details, safety behaviors, safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety stressors to obtain the data.ResultsThe results revealed the partial mediating role of safety attitudes in the relationship between safety climate and safety behavior. Additionally, safety stressors did not moderate the relationship between safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors, which has some interesting implications for healthcare professionals.ConclusionsThe study suggests that safety attitudes may also regulate the impact of perceptions of management values regarding safety, policies, and procedures. It is highly likely that healthcare professionals who experience a positive workplace safety climate will form positive safety attitudes that encourage safety behavior. In addition, the homogeneous characteristics of healthcare professionals’ in the UAE may also offer the positive coping strategy that caused the insignificant moderating effect of safety stressors on the relationship between safety climates, safety attitudes, and safety behaviors.

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Benchmarking working conditions for health and safety in the frontline healthcare industry: Perspectives from Australia and Malaysia

Abstract: We move toward a better understanding of the precursors of psychosocial safety climate in a broader context, including similarities and differences between Australia and Malaysia in national culture, government occupational health and safety policies and top-level management practices.

Cited by 18 publications

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Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study

Predicting new major depression symptoms from long working hours, psychosocial safety climate and work engagement: a population-based cohort study

Burnout profiles: dimensionality, replicability, and associations with predictors and outcomes

Integrating Safety Attitudes and Safety Stressors into Safety Climate and Safety Behavior Relations: The Case of Healthcare Professionals in Abu Dhabi

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