Informal caregiving, work-privacy conflict and burnout among health professionals in Switzerland  - a cross-sectional study

Häusler, Nadine; Bopp, Matthias; Hämmig, Oliver

doi:10.4414/smw.2017.14552

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“…Results from this study show most participants (65.5%) provided either double-duty or tripleduty care which is similar to other studies that found 64% of a female nursing staff [16] and 50% male nursing staff [20] at nursing homes held double-and triple-duty care responsibilities. In a study of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, 39% of the women (N = 1232) and 41% of the men (N = 174) held double or triple-duty care responsibilities which is notably lower than in this study [40]. Beyond healthcare, in a sample of information technology (IT) professionals (N = 823), 61% reported child and/or elder care responsibilities [41] which is very similar to RDNs in this study.…”

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How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey

2021

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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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How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey

2021

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“…Recent studies have shown such patterns in professional burnout. Double-duty caregivers – being a formal and informal caregiver at the same time – are at higher risk of professional burnout than work-only caregivers (Häusler et al, 2017; DePasquale et al, 2018). In the same way, being an informal caregiver has been shown to increase the chances of parental burnout (Lindström et al, 2011; Gérain and Zech, 2018; Séjourné et al, 2018).…”

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Informal Caregiver Burnout? Development of a Theoretical Framework to Understand the Impact of Caregiving

2019

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Informal caregiving is a rewarding but demanding role. The present theoretical framework proposes to adapt the tridimensional concept of burnout to informal caregiving as a way to address the potential consequences of caregiving. This adaptation reflects caregivers’ reported difficulties, as well as empirical findings on emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment as caregiving outcomes. But to understand burnout in informal caregiving contexts, it is also necessary to find ways to model it. The Informal Caregiving Integrative Model (ICIM) is thus proposed. This model is based on the integration of elements from literature on both informal caregiving stress and professional burnout. The goal of the ICIM is to emphasize the importance of every category of determinants of informal caregiver burnout (i.e., relating to the caregiver, the caregiving setting, and the sociocultural context), with a key mediating role for the caregivers’ appraisal of their situation and their relationship with the care-recipient. This article is a first integrative step in the consideration of a form of burnout specific to informal caregivers and supports the design of empirical and interventional studies based on the theoretical foundation that the ICIM proposes.

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“…The improvement of working conditions or rather the reduction of certain workloads should be systematically researched [1,31,32], especially regarding health professionals' satisfaction with life and individual health beyond work. Working conditions relevant for the health and wellbeing of hospital employees have been investigated in the Swiss survey "Work and Health in Hospital"; burnout [33], informal caregiving and other work-privacy conflicts were examined in preceding studies of that survey [34,35].…”

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Temporal work stressors and satisfaction with work, life and health among health professionals in Switzerland

2020

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BACKGROUND: Working in a hospital can be both rewarding and stressful. Whether one or the other is dominant depends on a number of factors ranging from shift work, physical demands, responsibilities and time pressure to job autonomy, work climate and leisure time.AIM: This study aimed to examine associations between temporal work stressors and satisfaction with work, life and health among health professionals in general, and nurses and physicians in particular. Associations were further investigated for possible mediating and intervening factors.METHODS: Cross-sectional survey data on 1232 health professionals at three public hospitals and two rehabilitation clinics were collected in 2015/2016. Stepwise multiple linear regression analyses were used to estimate the standardised effects (beta coefficients) of temporal work stressors (overtime and time pressure), and organisational and personal resources (job autonomy, work climate, internal control belief) on general stress as the assumed mediator and finally on satisfaction with work, life and health. RESULTS: Temporal work stressors were found to strongly predict general stress symptoms among health professionals (β = 0.25) and particularly physicians (β = 0.30), independently of the observed stress-buffering effects of organisational resources such as job autonomy (β = −0.09) or work climate (β = −0.22). Associations between temporal work stressors (as predictors) and satisfaction with work, life and health (as outcomes) turned out to be mostly indirect, mediated by general stress. General stress in turn was observed to be the strongest predictor of domain-specific satisfaction (β = −0.17 to −0.34), sometimes only surpassed by resources such as work climate or internal control belief. Explained variance of the three satisfaction outcomes in the fully specified regression or explanatory models ranged between 14% and 45% depending on the (sub-)sample (nurses, physicians, all health professionals) or the outcome. Control belief was revealed to be a strong and independent personal re-source, particularly regarding satisfaction with life and health in general (β = 0.25/0.21).CONCLUSION: Satisfaction and well-being of health professionals are strongly affected by job stressors such as frequent or excessive overtime work or permanent time pressure at work. Negative consequences of temporal work stressors are attenuated by organisational and personal resources such as a high level of job autonomy, a good work climate or a strong internal control belief.

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Informal caregiving, work-privacy conflict and burnout among health professionals in Switzerland - a cross-sectional study

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey

How work and family caregiving responsibilities interplay and affect registered dietitian nutritionists and their work: A national survey

Informal Caregiver Burnout? Development of a Theoretical Framework to Understand the Impact of Caregiving

Temporal work stressors and satisfaction with work, life and health among health professionals in Switzerland

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