Macroergonomic factors in the patient work system: examining the context of patients with chronic illness.

ABSTRACT: Human factors/ergonomics recognises work as embedded in and shaped by levels of social, physical and organisational context. This study investigates the contextual or macroergonomic factors present in the health-related work performed by patients. We performed a secondary content analysis of findings from three studies of the work of chronically ill patients and their informal caregivers. Our resulting consolidated macroergonomic patient work system model identified 17 factors across physical, social and organisational domains and household and community levels. These factors are illustrated with examples from the three studies and discussed as having positive, negative or varying effects on health and health behaviour. We present three brief case studies to illustrate how macroergonomic f

SUBMITTER: Holden RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5639913 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature