Workplace Stress Management Interventions and Health Promotion

Tetrick, Lois E.; Winslow, Carolyn J.

doi:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032414-111341

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“…First, our SMI did not include organizational-level measures. It has been suggested that SMI in the workplace combining both organizational and individual levels might be more effective [1]. Thus, our results may have underestimated the potential benefits.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Consequently, stress management interventions (SMI) in the workplace have received increasing attention from researchers as well as employers and employees [1]. Generally, SMI at the individual level with the largest effects on mental health are based on psychotherapeutic principles, mostly cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The ERI model includes the situation-specific component, which emphasizes the harmful effects of failed reciprocity between efforts spent at work and rewards received in turn (high effort/low reward), and the person-specific component termed ‘overcommitment', which is a distinct pattern of coping with demanding situations characterized by an inability to withdraw from work obligations. However, current knowledge concerning SMI at work is restricted to short- or medium-term evaluations, usually of weeks, but of no more than 3 years [1]. Therefore, there is reason to assume that a theory-driven individual-level SMI in the workplace (as with the ERI model) that draws on psychotherapeutic techniques may have sustained effects on psychosocial work stress and mental health over a prolonged period of time, i.e., several years.…”

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“…Moreover, such research would be highly relevant to clinical practice, highlighting the role of work stress in the accumulation of adversities across the life course and CR. Finally, interventions in the workplace that aim at reducing work stress at each period of the lifespan and disease development are warranted, i.e., focusing not only on primary prevention but also on secondary/tertiary prevention 41) .…”

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Work stress and cardiovascular disease: a life course perspective

Loerbroks

Bosma

et al. 2016

Journal of Occupational Health

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Individuals in employment experience stress at work, and numerous epidemiological studies have documented its negative health effects, particularly on cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although evidence on the various interrelationships between work stress and CVD has been accumulated, those observations have not yet been conceptualized in terms of a life course perspective. Using the chain of risk model, we would like to propose a theoretical model incorporating six steps: (1) work stress increases the risk of incident CVD in healthy workers. (2) Among those whose work ability is not fully and permanently damaged, work stress acts as a determinant of the process of return to work after CVD onset. (3) CVD patients experience higher work stress after return to work. (4) Work stress increases the risk of recurrent CVD in workers with prior CVD. (5) CVD patients who fully lose their work ability transit to disability retirement. (6) Disability retirees due to CVD have an elevated risk of CVD mortality. The life course perspective might facilitate an in-depth understanding of the diverse interrelationships between work stress and CVD, thereby leading to work stress management interventions at each period of the lifespan and three-level prevention of CVD.

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“…Programs that focus on proactively addressing PPWB factors rather than addressing them reactively can have a significant impact on the critical elements of a successful high performing organization (including engagement, productivity and safety). Further, there is growing evidence that organizational interventions, especially when combined with individuallevel interventions, can be quite effective in promoting a positive, healthy work environment (Tetrick and Winslow, 2015). The case studies described here demonstrate the inter-relatedness of stress, health and safety.…”

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Stress - Impacts on Health and Human Performance

Davis-Street

Kendrick

Castillejo

et al. 2016

SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility

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Objectives/Scope:: Psychological health and well-being are recognized as essential features of global wellness programs. Psychological health includes emotional and cognitive factors which impact critical thinking and decision making skills Outside of the US, stress ranks #1 or 2 as the top health risk driving wellness strategies. Excessive stress increases risk for cardiovascular disease and other health conditions. Beyond its impact on health, acute or chronic stress can impair cognitive functioning and human performance with consequences for safety, especially in operations characterized as having potentially high risks. Further, excessive stress is often accompanied by lack of sleep and rest, with resulting fatigue and on-the job distractibility. Physical and psychological well-being has been identified as a focus area for understanding human performance. Human performance efforts focus on proactively reducing human failure and its outcomes by improving the interaction between the individuals and critical systems, individual recognition of error-likely situations and applying tools to reduce error. Individual factors like fatigue, stress and distraction -factors that every worker is vulnerable to, given personal circumstances, worries and life events -are known error traps, influencing interactions within work groups and critical systems.Methods, Procedures, Process:: This retrospective study examines cases that demonstrate how work-related and personal stress can impact both health and human performance. We also describe steps that business unit leaders have taken to begin to create an environment where workers feel empowered to admit they need time to address personal health factors.Results, Observations, Conclusions:: Data on well-being and engagement provide aggregate information about enablers of productivity across the enterprise. Aggregate data from employee surveys, employee assistance programs, and health risk appraisals indicate that perceived stress varies across the organization, with opportunities for targeted focus on stress in some groups. Despite the intuitive recognition of the importance of physical and psychological well-being to health and safety, factors like stress are seldom directly accounted for in preparing JSA's and are difficult to identify as contributing factors to a health or safety incident. We recognize in this paper that off-the-job crises are happening to the safety-sensitive and non-safety-sensitive workforce every day, likely resulting in preoccupations and distractibility. On occasion, catastrophic accidents draw attention to specific health areas,(i.e., BP Texas City and fatigue) after which strong measures to identify similar risks to safety are activated, however these measures are reactive and are focused on the specific health behavior and not the more common but harder to perceive stressors that threaten safety and productivity.Novel/Additive Information:: Tools for supporting the workforce around stress are highlighted, including information about confidential reso...

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Workplace Stress Management Interventions and Health Promotion

Cited by 180 publications

References 46 publications

Nine-Year Longitudinal Psychosocial and Mental Outcomes of a Stress Management Intervention at Work Using Psychotherapeutic Principles

Nine-Year Longitudinal Psychosocial and Mental Outcomes of a Stress Management Intervention at Work Using Psychotherapeutic Principles

Work stress and cardiovascular disease: a life course perspective

Stress - Impacts on Health and Human Performance

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