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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Workplace-Based Organizational Interventions Promoting Mental Health and Happiness among Healthcare Workers: A Realist Review.

Patricia Gray, Sipho Senabe, Nisha Naicker, Spo Kgalamono, Annalee Yassi, Jerry M Spiegel

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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124citing papers in PubMed, 14 pooled it
37.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

124 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 287 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Patricia GraySchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Sipho SenabeGauteng Department of Health, Gauteng Provincial Government, 45 Commissioner Street, Marshall Town (Johannesburg) 2147, South Africa.
Nisha NaickerNational Institute of Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7223-7881
Spo KgalamonoNational Institute of Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Braamfontein, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa.
Annalee YassiSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
Jerry M SpiegelSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4699-3082
University of British Columbia · CANational Health Laboratory Service · ZAGovernment of South Africa · ZA

Funding

CIHR ROH-115212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental illness, deemed globally to account for 32% of years lived with a disability, generates significant impacts on workplaces. In particular, healthcare workers experience high rates of mental ill health such as burnout, stress, and depression due to workplace conditions including excessive workloads, workplace violence and bullying, which also produces negative effects on patients as well as on the happiness and wellbeing of those who remain at work. This review was undertaken to synthesize the evidence on workplace-based interventions at the organizational level promoting mental health and wellbeing among healthcare workers, to identify what has been receiving attention in this area and why, especially considering how such positive effects are produced. A search of three premier health-related databases identified 1290 articles that discussed healthcare workers, workplace interventions, and mental health. Following further examination, 46 articles were ultimately selected as meeting the criteria specifying interventions at the organizational level and combined with similar studies included in a relevant Cochrane review. The 60 chosen articles were then analyzed following a realist framework analyzing context, mechanism, and outcome. Most of the studies included in the realist review were conducted in high-income countries, and the types of organizational-level interventions studied included skills and knowledge development, leadership development, communication and team building, stress management as well as workload and time management. Common themes from the realist review highlight the importance of employee engagement in the intervention development and implementation process. The literature review also supports the recognized need for more research on mental health and happiness in low- and middle-income countries, and for studies evaluating the longer-term effects of workplace mental health promotion.

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HappinessMental HealthBullyingBurnout, ProfessionalHealth PersonnelHealth PromotionHumansLeadershipWorkloadWorkplaceWorkplace Violencehealthcare workersmental healthmental health promotionoccupational mental health

Identifiers

PMID31717906
PMCPMC6888154
OpenAlexW2985491257

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