Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Group-Treatment for Dealing with the Work-Family Conflict for Healthcare Professionals
Originally published 2021-11-08 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph182111728 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about a carefully evaluated peer-based workplace support program; the original evidence concerns healthcare professionals with family responsibilities at a community hospital in southern Germany.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
Could working through work-family pressures with peers help?
This reading brings a brief group approach to work-family conflict and self-efficacy into the collaboration pathway. The small controlled group-treatment feasibility study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
Healthcare professionals with family responsibilities at a community hospital in southern Germany
Age / stage: Working adults with family responsibilities
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess the two-day group treatment and feasibility measures?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about self-efficacy changes compared with broader family outcomes?
- What would need to be checked before adopting a carefully evaluated peer-based workplace support program?
Keep the limits in view
The small mostly female sample, short follow-up and feasibility emphasis limit conclusions; self-efficacy gains are not proof of sustained family-health benefit.
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Nicole Rosalinde Hander; Manuela Gulde; Thomas Klein; Nadine Mulfinger; Lucia Jerg-Bretzke; Ute Ziegenhain; Harald Gündel; Eva Rothermund (2021). Group-Treatment for Dealing with the Work-Family Conflict for Healthcare Professionals International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111728
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