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Barriers to Workplace Stress Interventions in Employee Assistance Practice: EAP Perspectives

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Occupational health literature links stressful working conditions with cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, injuries, and psychological distress. We conducted individual interviews with employee assistance professionals (EAPs) to understand opportunities and barriers for EAPs to address job stress through organization level interventions. EAPs described their primary role as assisting individual employees versus designing company wide interventions. The most salient barriers to organization level interventions cited were lack of access to company management and (for contracted EAPs) perceptions of contract vulnerability. Education about workplace stress interventions may be most effectively directed at EAPs who are already integrated with company level work groups.

Source: Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

DOI: 10.1080/15555240.2010.518491

Authors: Suzanne Nobrega, Nicole J. Champagne, Lenore S. Azaroff, Karishma Shetty, Laura Punnett

Institution: University of Massachusetts Lowell

Language: English

Topic: Workplace Health and Well-being

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health