Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Volume 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 699-706

A descriptive study on immigrant workers in the elderly care sector (Article)

Ortega A.* , Carneiro I.G. , Flyvholm M.-A.
  • a National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkalle 105, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
  • b National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkalle 105, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
  • c National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkalle 105, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark

Abstract

The present descriptive study seeks to explore the differences in terms of psychosocial work characteristics and health & well-being indicators among Danes, Western and Non-western immigrants working in the elderly care sector; and to identify differences in the association patterns between these psychosocial work characteristics and health & well-being across these three groups. The study was based on a large-scale survey of the elderly care sector in Denmark with 78% response rate. Results show that Non-western immigrants had more depression symptoms, poorer quality of sleep and more client-related burnout than their Western immigrants and Danish colleagues. All in all, the associations between psychosocial work characteristics and health and wellbeing were much stronger among Danes than among immigrant workers and particularly weak among Nonwestern immigrants. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009.

Author Keywords

Psychosocial work environment immigrants Elderly care Health and well-being

Index Keywords

depression human middle aged statistics Denmark health status Aged ethnology quality of life Young Adult United States Humans Burnout, Professional sleep disorder Adolescent male Emigrants and Immigrants burnout female workload Article manpower adult migration Sleep Disorders Health Services for the Aged elderly care
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DOI: 10.1007/s10903-009-9257-4
ISSN: 15571912
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English