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Burnout & Job Stress Interventions

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 9177

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Inge Houkes

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Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of Social Medicine, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands
Interests: sustainable employability; organizational design; employee participation and engagement; self-direction of employees on sickness absence; mixed methods
Prof. Dr. Angelique de Rijk

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Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of Social Medicine, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands
Interests: return to work; intervention development; burnout prevention; collaborative work and health interventions; individual (psychological) interventions in work and health; tertiary prevention; qualitative and quantitative methods

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a special issue on interventions for job stress and burnout in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

Numerous studies have been published describing the prevalence and aetiology of burnout, resulting in a quite extensive evidence-base in this area. Knowledge with regard to optimal methods for development, implementation processes, and effectiveness of interventions for burnout and stress is much less profound though. Most of these interventions focus on the individual employee with relatively mild complaints. Interventions focusing on team or organizational level seem to be promising, but are more scarce, just as interventions for employees with more severe complaints. The number of high-quality evaluation studies for stress and burnout interventions is very low.

With this Special Issue, we invite you to submit high-quality original research articles, design papers or reviews that provide insight in the development, implementation, evaluation designs and methods, and in the effectiveness of stress and burnout interventions, extending the current state of knowledge in these areas and providing clear and innovative directions for future evaluation research and practice. These interventions may target employees from all sectors. We encourage contributions to reflect the full range from universal prevention to selective, indicated prevention and tertiary prevention. We also encourage contributions that target the work, team or organization. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field, and would be due no later than the end of December 2020.

Dr. Inge Houkes
Prof. Dr. Angelique de Rijk
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Job stress
  • Burnout
  • Employees
  • Interventions
  • Work-related
  • Prevention (universal, indicated, selective, tertiairy)
  • Evaluation studies
  • Pilot RCTs
  • Design papers
  • Reviews

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Can Working Conditions and Employees’ Mental Health Be Improved via Job Stress Interventions Designed and Implemented by Line Managers and Human Resources on an Operational Level?
by Magnus Akerstrom, Linda Corin, Jonathan Severin, Ingibjörg H. Jonsdottir and Lisa Björk
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(4), 1916; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041916 - 16 Feb 2021
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Organisational-level interventions are recommended for decreasing sickness absence, but knowledge of the optimal design and implementation of such interventions is scarce. We collected data on working conditions, motivation, health, employee turnover, and sickness absence among participants in a large-scale organisational-level intervention comprising measures [...] Read more.
Organisational-level interventions are recommended for decreasing sickness absence, but knowledge of the optimal design and implementation of such interventions is scarce. We collected data on working conditions, motivation, health, employee turnover, and sickness absence among participants in a large-scale organisational-level intervention comprising measures designed and implemented by line managers and their human resources partners (i.e., operational-level). Information regarding the process, including the implementation of measures, was retrieved from a separate process evaluation, and the intervention effects were investigated using mixed-effects models. Data from reference groups were used to separate the intervention effect from the effects of other concurrent changes at the workplace. Overall, working conditions and motivation improved during the study for both the intervention and reference groups, but an intervention effect was only seen for two of 13 evaluated survey items: clearness of objectives (p = 0.02) and motivation (p = 0.06). No changes were seen in employees’ perceived health, and there were no overall intervention effects on employee turnover or sickness absence. When using operational-level workplace interventions to improve working conditions and employees’ health, efforts must be made to achieve a high measure-to-challenge correspondence; that is, the implemented measures must be a good match to the problems that they are intended to address. Full article
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Process Evaluation of an Operational-Level Job Stress Intervention Aimed at Decreasing Sickness Absence among Public Sector Employees in Sweden
by Jonathan Severin, Lisa Björk, Linda Corin, Ingibjörg H. Jonsdottir and Magnus Akerstrom
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(4), 1778; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041778 - 12 Feb 2021
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Work-related sickness absence carries large societal costs, and interventions aimed at decreasing sickness absence need to be performed in an effective way. This study evaluated the implementation process of an operational-level job stress intervention, implemented between 2017 and 2018 in the public sector, [...] Read more.
Work-related sickness absence carries large societal costs, and interventions aimed at decreasing sickness absence need to be performed in an effective way. This study evaluated the implementation process of an operational-level job stress intervention, implemented between 2017 and 2018 in the public sector, by assessing the extent to which the allocated resources reached the intended target group, if the planned measures could be expected to address the relevant work environmental challenges, and if the planned measures were implemented. Data were collected from applications for funding in the intervention (n = 154), structured interviews (n = 20), and register data on sickness absence (n = 2912) and working conditions (n = 1477). Thematic analysis was used to classify the level of the work environmental challenges, the level and perspective of the suggested measures, and the “measure-to-challenge correspondence”. Overall, participating workplaces (n = 71) had both higher sickness absence (p = 0.01) and worse reported working conditions compared to their corresponding reference groups. A measure-to-challenge correspondence was seen in 42% of the measures, and individual-level measures were mostly suggested for organisational-level work environment challenges. Almost all planned measures (94%) were ultimately implemented. When performing operational-level interventions, managers and their human resource partners need support in designing measures that address the work environmental challenges at their workplace. Full article
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