Behind the times? Associations of working-time autonomy with health-related and occupational outcomes in health care personnel- a latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the light of personnel shortage, the health care sector is facing the challenge to combine increasing employees' as well as patients' needs. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between working-time autonomy and health-related (fatigue, psychosomatic complaints and work ability), as well as occupational outcomes (job satisfaction and turnover intention) in a large sample of health care employees.

Method

Based on data of the BauA-Working Time survey, a sample of n = 1,093 employees working in the health care sector was analysed. Outcomes were assessed by the German Fatigue Scale, the Work Ability-Index and single-item measurements. Besides descriptive analyses, latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to determine clusters of employees based on

SUBMITTER: Jung FU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10943857 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature