Investigating facilitators and barriers to the implementation of policies, programs, and practices supportive of positive working conditions for patient care workers in hospital settings

October 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019

The goal of this study was to identify facilitators and barriers to the implementation of hospital policies related to organizational and psychosocial working conditions of Patient Care Workers (PCWs) in acute-care settings.

In collaboration with the Center’s Boston Hospital Workers Health Study and Mass General Brigham, this study provided information about the determinants of the implementation of policies that are supportive of positive organizational and psychosocial working conditions.

Funding for this research was provided by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Education and Research Center.

For more information:
Gómez MAL, Sabbath E, Boden L, Williams JAR, Hopcia K, Hashimoto D, Sorensen G. Organizational and Psychosocial Working Conditions and Their Relationship With Mental Health Outcomes In Patient-Care Workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2019) Dec 61:12.