Family Responsive Workplaces & Low-Wage Employee Health

家庭响应式工作场所

• 批准号: 7126888
• 负责人: LISA F BERKMAN
• 金额: $ 45.75万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7126888
• 关键词: actigraphy; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; biomarker; blood pressure; caregivers; child care; children; clinical research; cooperative study; cortisol; employee; family; human old age (65+); human subject; industrial medicine; job performance; low socioeconomic status; occupational psychology; occupational stressor; outcomes research; parents; psychological stressor; sleep; social service

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of our interdisciplinary research network is to identify workplace practices and policies that impact the health of low-wage employees and their families and dependents so that we can design effective work-based interventions to improve health outcomes. Our specific aims are to: 1. Contribute to the research agenda of the national network through individual and collaborative projects aimed at understanding the dual work and family demands of low-wage workers and the policies and practices of workplaces that employ them, including: a. an individual research project to investigate the associations among a range of workplace policies and informal practices in 5 small manufacturing and service businesses on the health of their ethnically and racially diverse low-income employees (n=500) and children. We additionally aim to do a small substudy of 80 employees with at least one school age child to assess biological markers of stress including dysregulation of patterns of cortisol, ambulatory blood pressure and sleep (using actigraphy). b. a collaborative project aimed at refining our measures of elder care stress and parental after school stress (PASS) developed by Barnett and Gareis across a number of different industries varying in size and type of industry. Building on the work in the individual project, we aim to develop reliable and valid measures of PASS and elder care as they are related to job disruption, (lead center collaborative project) c. a collaborative project that will pilot a worksite intervention using a RCT design with the work unit as the unit of randomization to improve worksite practices related to parental and elder care stress. We are particularly interested in modifying practices that have an impact on a large number or men and women in the workforce (e.g. flexibility in daily work schedule to deal with family matters, ability to make phone calls from work, access to or referrals to care programs). Outcomes include job disruption and biological indicators of stress related to neuroendocrine function, sleep disturbance, blood pressure regulation, (collaborative center)

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的跨学科研究网络的目标是确定影响低薪员工及其家人和家属健康的工作场所实践和政策，以便我们能够设计有效的基于工作的干预措施来改善健康结果。我们的具体目标是： 1. 通过旨在了解低工资工人的双重工作和家庭需求以及雇用他们的工作场所的政策和做法的个人和协作项目，为国家网络的研究议程做出贡献，包括： 一个。一项单独的研究项目，旨在调查 5 个小型制造和服务企业的一系列工作场所政策和非正式做法与其民族和种族多样化的低收入员工 (n=500) 和儿童健康之间的关联。我们还计划对 80 名员工和至少一名学龄儿童进行一项小型子研究，以评估压力的生物标志物，包括皮质醇模式失调、动态血压和睡眠（使用体动记录仪）。 b. Barnett 和 Gareis 在多个规模和类型各异的不同行业开发了一个合作项目，旨在完善老年人护理压力和家长放学后压力 (PASS) 的衡量标准。在单个项目工作的基础上，我们的目标是制定可靠且有效的 PASS 和老年人护理措施，因为它们与工作中断有关（牵头中心合作项目） c.这是一个合作项目，将使用随机对照试验设计来试点工作场所干预，以工作单位作为随机化单位，以改善与父母和老年人护理压力相关的工作场所实践。我们特别有兴趣改变对大量劳动力产生影响的做法（例如，处理家庭事务的日常工作安排的灵活性、在工作中打电话的能力、获得或转介护理计划的机会） ）。结果包括工作中断和与神经内分泌功能、睡眠障碍、血压调节相关的压力生物指标（合作中心）