Abstract
Background. The aim of the study was to establish relations between work experience and health, evaluated by salutogenic health indicators, among school workers.
Materials and methods. Teachers (n = 180) and other school workers (n = 154) from randomly selected Panevėžys district schools were questioned using instruments developed by scientists of the Kristianstad University: the Work Experience Measurement Scale (WEMS) and Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS). The questionnaire of personal data contained questions about sociodemographic and work-related characteristics. The differences among the mean values were tested by the independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to check the internal consistency. The significance level was accepted at p = 0.05.
Results. In the teachers’ group, 86.7% were females (75.3% among others), 20.4% were older than 55 years (30.7% in other goups), 18.9% held an executive position (8.5% among others). Teachers, as compared with other school workers, scored higher the domain of internal work experience, (76.9 vs. 62.8, respectively), while other school workers gave higher standardized scores for the time experience domain (71.9 vs. 63.7, p < 0.001 respectively). The SHIS scores among teachers varied from 54.7 (worst experience) to 78.0 (best experience), p < 0.001. In the group of other school workers, the SHIS mean scores varied from 51.9 to 80.0, p < 0.001.
Conclusions. Teachers more positively evaluated the domain of internal working experience, while other school workers were more satisfied with time experience at the workplace. The established strong correlation between work experience and health, measured by salutogenic health indicators, encouraged the idea to implement workrelated health promotion at school.
Keywords: work experience, health, school, salutogenic health indicators
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Most read articles by the same author(s)
-
Audrius Untanas,
Indrė Grigaitė,
Rūta Briedienė,
Imaging in pregnancy-associated breast cancer: a case report
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 26 No. 2 (2019): Acta Medica Lituanica
-
Nadežda Lachej,
Daiva Dabkevičienė,
Aušra Sasnauskienė,
Rūta Marija Trimonytė,
Daiva Kanopienė,
Birutė Kazbarienė,
Janina Didžiapetrienė,
NOTCH signalinio kelio ir ginekologinių piktybinių navikų sąsaja
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 24 No. 1 (2017)
-
Sonal Sogani,
Vandana Varma,
Purnima Dey Sarkar,
Significance of urine albumin / creatinine ratio (UACR) and uric acid in women with preeclampsia and its comparison with healthy normotensive pregnant women in their third trimester
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 21 No. 1 (2014)
-
Elvyra GRINIENĖ,
Antanas BAGDONAS,
Vida BLIUMBERGIENĖ,
Integration and health care of pupils with special needs in Kaunas schools
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 18 No. 1 (2011)
-
Jonas Drąsutis,
Arūnas Barkus,
Elena Kairienė,
Gražina Drąsutienė,
Kristina Norvilaitė,
Janina Tutkuvienė,
Nėščiųjų ir jaunų negimdžiusių moterų krūtų tūrio, kūno dydžio ir pasyviosios masės lyginamasis tyrimas
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 23 No. 4 (2016)
-
Denis Ganenko,
Audrius Dulskas,
Žygimantas Kuliešius,
Edita Baltruškevičienė,
Vincas Urbonas,
Eugenijus Stratilatovas,
Survival and time interval from surgery to the start of chemotherapy for patients with stage II and III colon cancer
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 25 No. 3 (2018)
-
Kasparas Rubliauskas,
Aistė Šalkauskaitė,
Andrius Macas,
Patient feedback on medical students in tertiary health care: are medical students accepted in clinical practice?
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 26 No. 1 (2019): Acta Medica Lituanica
-
Svetlana V. MANKOVSKAYA,
Yuri E. DEMIDCHIK,
Shunichi YAMASHITA,
Prospective efficacy of molecular preoperative diagnostics of papillary thyroid carcinoma
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 17 No. 1-2 (2010)
-
Minija Čerškutė,
Marius Kinčius,
Tomas Januškevičius,
Saulius Cicėnas,
Albertas Ulys,
Sternal resection of a solitary renal cell carcinoma metastasis: a case report and a literature review
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 25 No. 4 (2018)
-
Laurynas Rimševičius,
Domantas Galkauskas,
Julius Lavinskas,
Evelina Šestelinska,
Ernesta Mačionienė,
Agnė Laučytė-Cibulskienė,
Skirmantė Rėkutė,
Marius Miglinas,
Gastric antral vascular ectasia should not be overlooked in erythropoietin resistance: a series of case reports
,
Acta medica Lituanica: Vol. 25 No. 4 (2018)