Understanding Worker Well-Being Relative to High-Workload and Recovery Activities across a Whole Day: Pilot Testing an Ecological Momentary Assessment Technique

Occupational health and safety is experiencing a paradigm shift from focusing only on health at the workplace toward a holistic approach and worker well-being framework that considers both work and non-work factors. Aligned with this shift, the purpose of this pilot study was to examine how, within...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-10, Vol.18 (19), p.10354
Main Authors: Hernandez, Raymond, Pyatak, Elizabeth A, Vigen, Cheryl L P, Jin, Haomiao, Schneider, Stefan, Spruijt-Metz, Donna, Roll, Shawn C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COVID-19
Data collection
Diabetes mellitus (insulin dependent)
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Humans
Investigations
Occupational Health
Occupational safety
Pandemics
Pilot Projects
Psychobiology
Well being
Workers
Workload
Workloads
Workplace
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Summary:Occupational health and safety is experiencing a paradigm shift from focusing only on health at the workplace toward a holistic approach and worker well-being framework that considers both work and non-work factors. Aligned with this shift, the purpose of this pilot study was to examine how, within a person, frequencies of high-workload and recovery activities from both work and non-work periods were associated with same day well-being measures. We analyzed data on 45 workers with type 1 diabetes from whom we collected activity data 5-6 times daily over 14 days. More frequent engagement in high-workload activities was associated with lower well-being on multiple measures including higher stress. Conversely, greater recovery activity frequency was mostly associated with higher well-being indicated by lower stress and higher positive affect. Overall, our results provide preliminary validity evidence for measures of high-workload and recovery activity exposure covering both work and non-work periods that can inform and support evaluations of worker well-being.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph181910354