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A Team-level Participatory Approach Aimed at Improving Sustainable Employability of Long-term Elderly Care Workers

A Team-level Participatory Approach Aimed at Improving Sustainable Employability of Long-term Elderly Care Workers: A Study Protocol of a Randomised Controlled Trial

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
NL-OMON
Registry ID
NL-OMON29638
Enrollment
202
Registered
2021-07-29
Start date
2021-05-11
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2024-02-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

n.a.

Interventions

Intervention: The Healthy Working Approach The intervention consists of three meetings of one hour each per team led by a facilitator, who is a trained employee from within the elderly care organisati

Sponsors

n.a.
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - The elderly care worker is able to read and understand the Dutch language - The elderly care worker is minimally 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: - The elderly care worker is on sick leave for 1 month or more before completing the baseline questionnaire - The employment contract of the elderly care worker ends within six months after completing the baseline questionnaire

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Need for Recovery (NFR) will be measured with the 11 dichotomous items (0 no or 1 yes) of the Questionnaire on Psychosocial Job Demands and Job Stress (van Veldhoven et al., 1994).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Satisfaction of the needs for Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness (Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction Scale: Broeck et al., 2010). Work engagement (UWES-9: Schaufeli et al., 2006). Physical demands & Quantitative job demands (Netherlands Working Conditions Survey: Hooftman et al., 2021). Self-reported health, influence at work, job satisfaction, possibilities for development, and social support from colleagues from the Dutch translation (in press by Näring and van Scheppingen, 2021) from the third version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (Burr et al., 2019).

Contacts

Public ContactCeciel Heijkants

Radboud University Behavioural Science Institute

ceciel.heijkants@ru.nl0622582156

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)