Work , Stress, Health and Parenting Among Hotel Employees

酒店员工的工作、压力、健康和育儿

• 批准号: 7280286
• 负责人: ANN Caverly CROUTER
• 金额: $ 41.09万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-27 至 2008-12-19
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7280286
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Biological Assay; Collection; Consultations; Couples; Daily; Development; Employee; Family; Family member; Focus Groups; Foundations; Funding; Health; Health Benefit; Hydrocortisone; Individual; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Investigation; Lead; Life; Literature; Measurable; Measures; Methods; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Physiological; Policies; Policy Maker; Process; Productivity; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Readiness; Research; Research Project Grants; Site; Spouses; Stress; Surveys; Testing; Work; Workplace; day; diaries; stress management; stressor; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application outlines plans for a developmental center that would conduct collaborative pilot research on work stress, health, and parenting for hotel employees as part of a research network focused on developing intervention protocols to study the health benefits of workplace policies and practices (RFA-HD-04-017). The proposed research involves three products, each of which involves collaborative research with a hotel company partner. The first product is an individual research project that uses daily diary methods to examine associations of daily work stressors with daily self reports and physiological measures (i.e., cortisol) of physical health, well-being, and productivity, within and across days. Specifically, we would add the collection and assaying of cortisol to an ongoing, Sloan Foundation-funded daily diary study of hotel managers and their spouses/partners (n = 120 couples), and we would develop a new daily diary investigation of the connections between work stressors and the same outcomes for hotel hourly workers (n = 120). The project would contribute to the network a sophisticated method by which it can examine, in subsequent large-scale intervention research, the day-to-day processes that occur when employees have access to new policies and practices and their implications for the health, well-being, and productivity of employees and their family members. We also propose to lead a collaborative project to identify appropriate measures of parenting for the network, via consultation with each network partner, reviewing the relevant literatures, and conducting focus groups at partners' work sites (including our own hotel company sites). The third product is a collaborative project to develop and pilot test a stress management intervention targeted at first-line supervisors (in our case, in hotels), and creates a survey tool that taps organizational readiness for interventions. Together, the activities of the network address an important public health issue: the implications of ongoing stressors in the workplace for the health and well-being of employed adults and their families. Pilot research of this kind is needed to plan large-scale interventions that would evaluate the extent to which "family-friendly policies and practices" at work make a measurable and significant difference in the lives of employees and their families. The results of such large-scale interventions will inform policy makers and employers and perhaps stimulate workplaces to provide more support for working families.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请概述了一个发展中心的计划，该中心将对酒店员工的工作压力、健康和养育子女进行合作试点研究，作为研究网络的一部分，该研究网络专注于制定干预方案，以研究工作场所政策和实践的健康益处（RFA-HD-04-017）。拟议的研究涉及三个产品，每个产品都涉及与酒店公司合作伙伴的合作研究。第一个产品是一个个人研究项目，使用每日日记方法来检查日常工作压力源与日常自我报告和生理测量（即，皮质醇）的身体健康，幸福，和生产力，在一天之内和跨天。具体来说，我们将增加皮质醇的收集和测定到一个正在进行的，斯隆基金会资助的酒店经理和他们的配偶/合作伙伴（n = 120对夫妇）的日常日记研究，我们将开发一个新的日常日记调查的工作压力和酒店小时工（n = 120）相同的结果之间的联系。该项目将为该网络提供一种先进的方法，使其能够在随后的大规模干预研究中审查雇员获得新政策和做法时发生的日常过程及其对雇员及其家庭成员的健康、福祉和生产力的影响。我们还建议领导一个合作项目，通过与每个网络合作伙伴协商，审查相关文献，并在合作伙伴的工作地点（包括我们自己的酒店公司地点）进行焦点小组讨论，为网络确定适当的育儿措施。第三个产品是一个合作项目，以开发和试点测试针对一线主管（在我们的情况下，在酒店）的压力管理干预措施，并创建一个调查工具，挖掘组织的干预准备。该网络的活动共同解决一个重要的公共卫生问题：工作场所持续的压力对就业成年人及其家庭的健康和福祉的影响。需要进行这类试点研究，以规划大规模干预措施，评估工作中的“关爱家庭政策和做法”在多大程度上对雇员及其家庭的生活产生了可衡量的重大影响。这种大规模干预的结果将使决策者和雇主了解情况，并可能刺激工作场所为工作家庭提供更多的支持。