Effects of requested, forced and denied shift schedule change on work ability and health of nurses in Europe -results from the European NEXT-Study

Previous cross-sectional findings from the European Nurses Early Exit Study (NEXT) show that nurses who were dissatisfied with their work schedule tended to consider leaving the nursing profession. Mediating factors in this decision process may be caused by self-perceived poor work ability and/or he...

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Published in:BMC public health 2013-12, Vol.13 (1), p.1137-1137, Article 1137
Main Authors: Galatsch, Michael, Li, Jian, Derycke, Hanne, Müller, Bernd Hans, Hasselhorn, Hans Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Europe - epidemiology
Female
Health Status
Humans
Job Satisfaction
Male
Nurses
Nurses - psychology
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Nursing
Performance standards
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling - statistics & numerical data
Psychological aspects
Surveys and Questionnaires
Work Schedule Tolerance - psychology
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Summary:Previous cross-sectional findings from the European Nurses Early Exit Study (NEXT) show that nurses who were dissatisfied with their work schedule tended to consider leaving the nursing profession. Mediating factors in this decision process may be caused by self-perceived poor work ability and/or health. The aim of this paper is to investigate changes in work ability and general health among nurses in relation to requested, forced and denied change of shift schedule. Longitudinal data from the NEXT Study was used. In total 11,102 nurses from Belgium, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, France and Italy completed both the 'basic questionnaire' (t1) and the '12 month follow-up questionnaire' (t2). To examine the time-effect (repeated measures) and the group-effect of five defined groups of nurses on the Work Ability Index (WAI) and general health (SF36), an adjusted 2-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was performed. The nurses who wanted to, but could not change their shifts during the 12 month follow-up had the lowest initial and follow-up scores for WAI (t1: 37.6, t2: 36.6, p
ISSN:1471-2458
1471-2458
DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-13-1137