Sustainable employability of Dutch medical doctors: a test of the role of psychosocial safety climate in the Job Demands-Resources model.

Compromised Sustainable Employability (SE) of medical doctors poses a risk to the viability of health care, and consequently, to society's welfare. In order to address medical doctors' compromised SE a better understanding of its underlying determinants is needed. Therefore, drawing on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model, extended with Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), we tested PSC as a 'cause of causes', examining direct and indirect relationships between PSC, job characteristics (job demands and job resources), and SE outcomes (burnout, work engagement, and job satisfaction).

An Organizational-Level Workplace Intervention to Improve Medical Doctors' Sustainable Employability: Study Protocol for a Participatory Action Research Study.

Compromised Sustainable Employability (SE) of medical doctors is a concern for the viability of healthcare and, thus, for society as a whole. This study (preregistration: ISRCTN15232070) will assess the effect of a two-year organizational-level workplace intervention using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach on the primary outcome SE (i.e.

Reducing Psychosocial Risk Factors and Improving Employee Well-Being in Emergency Departments: A Realist Evaluation.

This study reports the findings of a 2.5 year intervention project to reduce psychosocial risks and increase employee well-being in 15 emergency departments in the Netherlands. The project uses the psychosocial risk management approach "PRIMA" which includes cycles of risk assessment, designing and implementing changes, evaluating changes and adapting the approach if necessary.

The prevalence of stress-related outcomes and occupational well-being among emergency nurses in the Netherlands and the role of job factors: A regression tree analysis.

Aims: This study aims to assess the prevalence of stress-related outcomes (burnout, sleep problems and post-traumatic stress) and occupational well-being (work engagement, job satisfaction and turnover intention) of Dutch emergency room nurses and to identify job factors related to key outcomes.

Background: While emergency nurses are prone to stress-related outcomes, no large-scale studies have been conducted in the Netherlands. Furthermore, few studies considered combined effects of job factors on emergency nurses' well-being.

Relations Between Psychosocial Job Characteristics and Work Ability in Employees with Chronic Headaches.

Purpose The aim of the study was to determine (a) to which extent job demands and job resources predict work ability in employees with chronic headaches, and (b) whether work ability in these employees is more hampered by high demands and more enhanced by resources than in employees without chronic disease. Methods All employees with chronic headaches (n = 593) and without chronic disease (n = 13,742) were selected from The Netherlands Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2013. This survey assessed amongst others job characteristics and various indicators of work ability, i.

Applying the Common Sense Model to predicting quality of life in alopecia areata: The role of illness perceptions and coping strategies.

Applying the Common Sense Model, this cross-sectional study examines associations between illness perceptions and quality of life and the mediating role of coping in 243 adults with alopecia areata, a chronic dermatological condition. At least some QoL impairment was reported by 84 percent of participants, with 31 percent reporting very to extremely large impairment. Stronger perceptions of consequences, emotional representations, identity, and lower attribution to chance were related to more impairment, with avoidant coping acting as (partial) mediator.

Health-related behaviours mediate the relation between ethnicity and (mental) health in the Netherlands.

Objective: Ethnic minorities in the Netherlands experience worse (mental) health than Dutch natives. So far, socioeconomic factors, discrimination, and the migration process have been identified as underlying factors, neglecting the potential role of health-related behaviours. This study investigates the mediating effect of lack of physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption on ethnic inequalities in (mental) health in the Netherlands.

Psychosocial job characteristics and psychological distress / well-being: the mediating role of personal goal facilitation.

Objective: This study examined the mediating role of personal goal facilitation through work (PGFW), defined as perceptions of the extent to which one's job facilitates the attainment of one's personal goals, in the association between psychosocial job characteristics and psychological distress and job-related well-being.

Material And Methods: Questionnaire data from 217 nurses (84% female, with a mean age of 42.7 years, SD=7.

Occupational coping self-efficacy explains distress and well-being in nurses beyond psychosocial job characteristics.

Aim: The main purpose of the present study was to extend the Job Demand Control Support (JDCS) model analyzing the direct and interactive role of occupational coping self-efficacy (OCSE) beliefs.

Background: OCSE refers to an individual's beliefs about their ability to cope with occupational stressors. The interplay between occupational stressors, job resources, and self-efficacy beliefs is poorly investigated.

Preferences for condom placement in stores among young Dutch men and women: relationships with embarrassment and motives for having sex.

Background: Condom purchasing is an important preparation for condom use. The present study examined if products surrounding condoms in the store play a role in preferences for where to buy condoms among young people.

Methods: Sixty-nine men and 111 women (<30 years) completed an online questionnaire on their preferences for condom placement, associated embarrassment with these placements, and motives for having sex.

Job conditions, job satisfaction, somatic complaints and burnout among East African nurses.

Aims: To describe job conditions, job satisfaction, somatic complaints and burnout of female East African nurses working in public and private hospitals and to determine how these well-being outcomes are associated with job conditions.

Background: Insight into job conditions, health and well-being status and their interrelation is virtually lacking for East African nurses.

Design: Cross-sectional survey of 309 female nurses in private and public hospitals in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Exploring the burden of emergency care: predictors of stress-health outcomes in emergency nurses.

Aims: This paper is a report of a study that examines (1) whether emergency nurses differ from a general hospital nursing comparison group in terms of job and organizational characteristics and (2) to what extent these characteristics predict job satisfaction, turnover intention, work engagement, fatigue and psychosomatic distress in emergency nurses.

Background: The work environment and job characteristics of nurses are important predictors of stress-health outcomes. Emergency nurses are particularly exposed to stressful events and unpredictable work conditions.

Job characteristics, organizational conditions, and distress/well-being among Italian and Dutch nurses: a cross-national comparison.

Background: Among health care workers, nursing has been identified as particularly stressful. Several studies have shown cross-national differences in nurses' levels of occupational stress and burnout.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to compare job characteristics, organizational conditions, and strain reactions in Italian (N = 609) and Dutch (N = 873) nurses.

A longitudinal study of job stress in the nursing profession: causes and consequences.

Aim And Background: This study examines the influence of changes in work conditions on stress outcomes as well as influence of changes in stress outcomes on work conditions. As such, it answers questions still open in the literature regarding causality of work environmental characteristics and the health of nurses.

Method: A complete, two wave panel design was used with a time interval of 3 years.