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      Interruptions, Unreasonable Tasks, and Quality-Threatening Time Pressure in Home Care: Linked to Attention Deficits and Slips, Trips, and Falls

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          Abstract

          Background

          In industrial countries, home care of community dwelling elderly people is rapidly growing. Frequent injuries in home caregivers result from slips, trips, and falls (STFs). The current study tests attentional cognitive failure to mediate the association between work stressors and STFs.

          Methods

          A sample of 125 home caregivers participated in a questionnaire study and reported work interruptions, unreasonable tasks, quality-threatening time pressure, conscientiousness, attentional cognitive failures, and STFs.

          Results

          In structural equation modeling, the mediation model was shown to fit empirical data. Indirect paths with attentional cognitive failures as the link between work stressors and STF were all significant in bootstrapping tests. An alternative accident-prone person model, that suggests individual differences in conscientiousness to predict attentional cognitive failures that predict more frequent work stressors and STFs, showed no significant paths between work conditions and STFs.

          Conclusion

          To prevent occupational injury, work should be redesigned to reduce work interruptions, unreasonable tasks, and quality-threatening time pressure in home care.

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          The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates.

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          This paper describes a questionnaire measure of self-reported failures in perception, memory, and motor function. Responses to all questions tend to be positively correlated, and the whole questionnaire correlates with other recent measures of self-reported deficit in memory, absent-mindedness, or slips of action. The questionnaire is however only weakly correlated with indices of social desirability set or of neuroticism. It is significantly correlated with ratings of the respondent by his or her spouse, and accordingly does have some external significance rather than purely private opinion of the self. The score is reasonably stable over long periods, to about the same extent as traditional measures of trait rather than state. Furthermore, it has not thus far been found to change in persons exposed to life-stresses. However, it does frequently correlate with the number of current psychiatric symptoms reported by the same person on the MHQ; and in one study it has been found that CFQ predicts subsequent MHQ in persons who work at a stressful job in the interval. It does not do so in those who work in a less stressful environment. The most plausible view is that cognitive failure makes a person vulnerable to showing bad effects of stress, rather than itself resulting from stress.
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            Illegitimate tasks as a source of work stress

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            Illegitimate tasks represent a task-level stressor derived from role and justice theories within the framework of “Stress-as–Offense-to-Self” (SOS; Semmer, Jacobshagen, Meier, & Elfering, 2007). Tasks are illegitimate if they violate norms about what an employee can properly be expected to do, because they are perceived as unnecessary or unreasonable; they imply a threat to one's professional identity. We report three studies testing associations between illegitimate tasks and well-being/strain. In two cross-sectional studies, illegitimate tasks predicted low self-esteem, feelings of resentment towards one's organization and burnout, controlling for role conflict, distributive injustice and social stressors in Study 1, and for distributive and procedural/interactional justice in Study 2. In Study 3, illegitimate tasks predicted two strain variables (feelings of resentment towards one's organization and irritability) over a period of two months, controlling for initial values of strain. Results confirm the unique contribution of illegitimate tasks to well-being and strain, beyond the effects of other predictors. Moreover, Study 3 demonstrated that illegitimate tasks predicted strain, rather than being predicted by it. We therefore conclude that illegitimate tasks represent an aspect of job design that deserves more attention, both in research and in decisions about task assignments.
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              Is two-tailed testing for directional research hypotheses tests legitimate?

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                Achim Elfering
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Saf Health Work
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Saf Health Work
                Title: Safety and Health at Work
                Publisher: Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute
                ISSN (Print): 2093-7911
                ISSN (Electronic): 2093-7997
                Publication date PMC-release: 11 February 2018
                Publication date (Print): December 2018
                Publication date (Electronic): 11 February 2018
                Volume: 9
                Issue: 4
                Pages: 434-440
                Affiliations
                [1 ]University of Bern, Switzerland
                [2 ]National Center of Competence in Research, Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, CISA, Geneva, Switzerland
                [3 ]Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
                Author notes
                [∗ ]Corresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. achim.elfering@ 123456psy.unibe.ch
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                Publisher ID: S2093-7911(17)30322-0
                DOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2018.02.001
                PMC ID: 6284161
                SO-VID: a0eca93b-be50-4ff5-8b27-3f5b5377d6d2
                Copyright © © 2018 The Authors
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                This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

                History
                Date received : 30 June 2017
                Date revision received : 16 January 2018
                Date accepted : 3 February 2018
                Categories
                Subject: Original Article

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Occupational & Environmental medicine
                Keywords: fall prevention,home care,occupational health
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Occupational & Environmental medicine
                Keywords: fall prevention, home care, occupational health

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