Home health aides' experiences of their occupational health: a qualitative meta-synthesis
Home health aides' experiences of their occupational health: a qualitative meta-synthesis
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DOI：
10.1080/01621424.2021.1921650
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发表时间：
2021-05-06
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Redzovic, Skender Elez
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作者：
Gronoset Grasmo, Sunniva;Frostad Liaset, Ingeborg;Redzovic, Skender Elez
家庭保健助理 (HHA) 因病缺勤率很高，而对家庭护理服务的需求却在迅速增长。本研究的目的是通过识别、描述和解释关于 HHA 如何体验与其工作条件相关的职业健康的定性研究中的关键概念，获得新的概念理解。使用定性人种学荟萃合成方法来分析来自 CINAHL、MEDLINE 和 PsycINFO 系统检索的 27 篇文章。尽管报告了许多具有相反效果的积极存在因素，但 HHA 在不受控制且不断变化的社会心理和身体工作环境中经历了体力繁重的工作任务要求以及不幸的组织条件，这是其职业健康的主要障碍。需要更多的研究来调查体力要求较高的工作任务是否可以通过重新安排工作，同时保留患者在家中的权力，对 HHA 的职业健康产生积极影响。
Home health aides (HHA) have high sickness absence while the need for home care services is rapidly growing. The aim of this study was to derive new conceptual understandings by identifying, describing and interpreting key concepts across qualitative studies on how HHA experience their occupational health related to their working conditions. A qualitative ethnographic meta-synthesis was used as a method to analyze 27 articles included from systematic searches in CINAHL, MEDLINE and PsycINFO. HHA experience physical strenuous work task demands in combination with unfortunate organizational conditions in an uncontrolled and ever-changing psychosocial and physical working environment as the main obstacle to their occupational health, although many positive presence factors with opposite effects were reported. More research is needed to investigate whether physical demanding work tasks can have positive effects on HHA's occupational health by reorganizing their work while preserving patients' empowerment at their home.