Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women.

Objectives: Due to the association between COVID-19 and adverse pregnancy outcomes, pregnant women are considered to be a vulnerable patient group. Studies have shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) is a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection. COVID-19 and low SES are likely to have a synergistic adverse effect.

Prepared for Home-Based Telework? The Relation between Telework Experience and Successful Workplace Arrangements for Home-Based Telework During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: This article focuses on the perceived effects of home-based telework during the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to five outcomes (job satisfaction, burnout, work-family conflicts, technostress, and social isolation) and how these are affected by workplace arrangements and telework experience.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey data from employees in the IT, finance, and insurance sector collected during the COVID-19 crisis ( N = 808) were used for the study.

Results: Outcomes are most negatively affected by feelings of surveillance and most positively affected by suitably equipped offices.

Escape or activate? Pathways of work stress on substance use.

Background: Research on the spillover effects of work stress on substance use have mainly focused on the concept of escapist substance.

Objective: Building on the concept of self-endangering work behavior, we expand this stress-theoretic view with a presenteeism path of work-induced substance use. Contrary to emotion-based disengaging coping strategies associated with escapist use, we argue that high job demands may also promote problem-focused engagement coping, where substances are used for activation.

Home-Based Telework and Presenteeism: New Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Objective: Previous research found increased sickness presenteeism (working despite sickness) associated with home-based telework. The Covid-19 pandemic offers new insights into mechanisms, as a large proportion of the workforce was forced to work from home, irrespective of organizational and individual predispositions.

Methods: A path analysis based on survey data from a sample of teleworkers collected during the Covid-crisis was performed.

Is it feasible to assess self-reported quality of life in individuals who are deaf and have intellectual disabilities?

Purpose: There is consensus that Quality of Life (QOL) should be obtained through self-reports from people with intellectual Disability (ID). Thus far, there have been no attempts to collect self-reported QOL from people who are deaf and have ID.

Methods: Based on an established short measure for QOL (EUROHIS-QOL), an adapted easy-to-understand sign language interview was developed and applied in a population (n = 61) with severe-to-profound hearing loss and mild-to-profound ID.