Year: 1998
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) are designed to address several physical and mental health issues of employees.Employers who implement such a program have a responsibility to inform employees of the program and make them familiar with procedures to contact the EAP.Confidentiality of the program should also be assured.An EAP that addresses these issues should have successful utilization rates.A questionnaire designed to assess factors hypothesized to predict propensity to use an Employee Assistance Program was administered to university faculty and staff (N=2,230) at a medium-sized western university.Based on a structural equations modeling analysis, a model of factors hypothesized to predict propensity to use an EAP was determined to be unidentified.However, a similar revised model adequately fit the data.Specifically, results revealed associations between (a) degree of familiarity with an EAP, (b) degree of confidence in an EAP, (c) perceived accessibility of an EAP, (d) perceived effectiveness of an EAP, (e) perceived purpose of an EAP, and (f) propensity to use an EAP.Results are discussed from an employee well-being perspective.
Author: Laura Ashlee Schneider
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W8378589