维持长期COVID的女性职业工人中的工作能力
J Lunt1, S Hemming1, J Elander1
1School of Psychology, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby DE22 1GB, UK.
Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
|January 10, 2024
概括
长期的COVID严重影响女性工人的工作能力. 灵活的工作安排和量身定制的支持对于维持工作能力和防止失业至关重要.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 康复医学 康复医学 康复医学
背景情况:
- 长期COVID (LC) 对工作能力 (WA) 提出了重大挑战,不成比例地影响女性工人.
- 了解LC的女性工人的生活经验对于开发有效的WA支持策略至关重要.
- 现有研究强调,需要量身定制的干预措施,以减轻与LC相关的失业风险.
研究的目的:
- 探索影响长期COVID的女性工人持续WA的工作条件和情况.
- 为这一群体确定重返工作 (RTW) 的关键推动因素和障碍.
- 为减轻LC的女性工人失业风险的策略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 使用在线半结构面试进行的定性研究,对10名被诊断患有或自我报告LC的女性工人进行了半结构面试.
- 参与者曾试图返回工作 (RTW).
- 使用模板分析来识别与WA启用器和障碍器相关的主题,并将其映射到生物心理社会模型上.
主要成果:
- 提供自主性的专业角色 (在哪里,什么时候,如何工作) 促进了持续的WA.
- 关键的推动因素包括快速获得医疗保健,久坐不动的工作,支持性同事,综合健康和管理支持以及公平的组织政策.
- 灵活,代,共同制作的RTW规划,以适应波动的症状至关重要.
结论:
- 生活经验强调了自主,综合支持和灵活的RTW规划对于LC的女性工人持续的WA的重要性.
- 这些发现增强了当前关于支持LC患者WA的指南.
- 确定的原则适用于解决长期健康状况复杂的成年人失业问题.
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