TY - JOUR
TI - Shift Work and Quality of Personal, Professional, and Family Life among Health Care Workers in a Rehabilitation Center in Greece
AU - Skoufi, G.
AU - Lialios, G.
AU - Papakosta, S.
AU - Constantinidis, T.
AU - Galanis, P.
AU - Nena, E.
JO - Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
PY - 2017
VL - 21
TODO - 3
SP - 115-120
PB - Medknow Publications
SN - 0973-2284
TODO - 10.4103/ijoem.IJOEM_74_17
TODO - adult;  article;  burnout;  compassion fatigue;  cross-sectional study;  employee;  family conflict;  family life;  family size;  female;  Greece;  health care personnel;  human;  nursing;  parenthood;  quality of working life;  questionnaire;  rehabilitation center;  satisfaction;  shift work;  shift worker;  sociology;  statistical analysis;  wellbeing;  workplace;  world health organization
TODO - Context: Adverse work schedules and conditions may affect the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of workers, impairing quality of life and causing conflict between family and work roles. Aims: To compare quality of life, professional quality of life (ProQOL), and work/family conflict (WFC) between shift workers and nonshift workers and explore possible associations with demographic characteristics. Settings and Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a rehabilitation center in Central Greece, recording demographic, occupational, and family characteristics. Materials and Methods: Participants answered the World Health Organization-5 Well-Being Index, the ProQOL questionnaire [compassion satisfaction (CS), and the burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress scales], and the WFC scale. Statistical Analysis Used: IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 19.0 for Windows. Results: Ninety-one employees (68.7% shift workers) participated, with mean age 33.5. Females reported higher compassion/satisfaction level (P = 0.031). Nursing profession was associated with higher levels of BO (P = 0.021), impact of work to family life (P = 0.008), and impact of family to work (FtW), and WFC (P = 0.008). Parenthood increased the impact of FtW (P = 0.008) and predispose to WFC (P = 0.023). In general, wellbeing was significantly correlated with CS (r = 0.368, P < 0.01), BO (r = -0.538, P < 0.01), and levels of WFC (P = 0.003). Work and family roles conflict was statistically significantly correlated with levels of BO (r = 0.497, P < 0.01), and CS (r = -0.288, P < 0.01). Conclusions: The interaction between general, professional, and family quality of life can guide interventions in the workplace in order to improve workers' quality of life and promote workers' health. © 2018 Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow.
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