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Objective:To understand the current status of nurses' awareness and needs for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as to provide basis for the hospital to formulate EAP.Methods:Using the purpose sampling method, 352 ICU nurses from the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated of Nanjing University Medical School were selected as the research subjects from December 2019 to January 2020. Finally, 350 valid questionnaires were obtained. Use the EAP demand questionnaire to investigate the ICU nurses' awareness and demand for EAP.Results:Among the 350 nurses in the intensive unit, 214 cases (61.14%) had never understood EAP, only 8 (2.29%) had understood and experienced the EAP, and 332 cases (94.86%) believed that the hospital′s implementation of EAP was a benefit provided to nurses. The top two service requirements were: "Relief of work pressure" and "mental health consultation", and hope to receive mixed-mode EAP services; in ICU and CCU, nurses hope EAP can help resolve work-family conflicts; in EICU, they need to provide Specific job skills training services.Conclusions:ICU nurses have insufficient cognition of EAP and urgently need to obtain EAP implementation knowledge; at the same time, it is necessary to formulate an implementation plan that meets ICU nurses′ needs for EAP, that is, to relieve work pressure and carry out psychological counseling to ensure that EAP is launch successfully in ICU nurses.
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Objective To explore the effect of employee assistance program service on clinical nurses' occupational delay satisfaction and professional identity. Methods A total of 106 clinical nurses were divided into observation group and control group by random number table with 53 cases each. The control group gave general support psychological care through the manner in which the head nurse talked, and the observation group provided employee assistance program services on this basis through group counseling and individual psychological counseling. Before and after the intervention, the occupational delay satisfaction scale and nurse occupational identity scale were used to assess them. Results There were 53 valid samples in the final observation group and 47 effective samples in the control group. There was no significant difference in the occupational delay satisfaction scale and nurse occupational identity scale before intervention between two groups. After the intervention, the occupational delay of the observation group nurse met the total score (24.01±4.57) points, which was higher than that of the control group (16.09 ± 3.65) points. The difference was statistically significant (t=8.543, P <0.05). After the intervention, the occupational identity of nurses in the observation group was (96.46±7.88) points, which was higher than that of the control group (81.05±6.79) points. The difference was statistically significant (t=9.347, P<0.05). Conclusions The employee assistance program service has effectively increased nurses' occupational delay satisfaction and professional identity.
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Objective To explore the effect of employee assistance program on male nurses' professional values and professional identity.Methods Fifty male nurses participated in the program by group counseling and individual counseling.The professional values scale (NPVS-R) and the occupational identity scale were used to investigate the changes in their professional values and occupational identity before and after the intervention.Result After intervention,the occupational values and occupational identity of male nurses were significantly better than before intervention (P＜0.01).Conclusion The employee assistance program for male nurses can promote the formation of positive professional values and professional identity sense.
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Objective To investigate present situation of mental health of university teachers and the application effect of EAP modes. Methods 500 university teachers were selected as the research object and were managed with EAP modes.Before and after the use of EAP modes,mental health was investigated and analyzed. Results The score of SCL-90 factors after application of EAP modes was significantly better than prior to implementation. Conclusions The situation of mental health of university teachers is relatively poor,the implementation of the EAP modes can help to improve their mental health.
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OBJECTIVES: Organizations have recently introduced Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) to promote work performance by helping employees to solve their current problems and reduce stress levels. This cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted to measure features of work performance among EAP users in Korea. METHODS: Measurements were taken by employee surveys and employee records. Lost productivity time, job/organizational involvement, and job satisfaction were measured among 332 EAP users in ten organizations in Korea, which had introduced EAPs as of 2009. EAP users responded to measurements after one to three months after enrollment in EAP counseling service. A convenience sample of 297 workers, who had not used an EAP counseling service during the study period, was used as a comparison group. RESULTS: Compared with non-users, the EAP users showed more presenteeism (53.22 vs. 47.63 hours per four weeks, p=0.025) and more total lost productivity time (p=0.020). Job satisfaction was correlated with presenteeism. CONCLUSION: EAP users showed decreased productivity. It would appear that EAP counseling is a useful program for those who are present at workplace but suffering from decreased performance due to personal stress. This study indicates the need for a prospective outcome study to assess the economic and clinical value of EAPs.
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Humans , Absenteeism , Counseling , Efficiency , Employment , Job Satisfaction , Korea , Outcome Assessment, Health Care , Retrospective Studies , Stress, PsychologicalABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the effects of workers' current problems to the perceived stress and work performance among manufacturing industry workers in Korea. METHODS: Responses to structured survey questionnaires were received from 556 workers at 7 medium-sized manufacturing factories in Gyeongsang Province. RESULTS: Among the 556 responders, health problems, job stress, and life stress showed significant effect on their perceived stress. Job stress showed significant effect on workers' lateness and early leaving, and culture & leisure problems on absenteeism. Health problems and job stress took negative effects on their job concentration difficulty. The severity of these problems were related with the desired length of retention. CONCLUSION: We proved the effect of workers' current problems to their performance. The study results will be helpful to clarify what EAP services should be considered to solve these problems at a certain organization.
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Absenteeism , Leisure Activities , Surveys and Questionnaires , Stress, PsychologicalABSTRACT
With reformation and innovation in hospital management,hospital culture is playing a more important role than before in the development of hospitals.HEPA(Hospital Employee Assistance Program) is considered as the efficient means of enhancing hospital culture construction with "put the human fundamental" as its principal.This present article is going to introduce the origin,development and function of HEAP as well as the concept of hospital culture,indicating that HEAP may contribute to increment of employees' achievement,improvement of hospital management and enhancement of hospital culture construction.