Effect of an E-mental Health Approach to Workers' Health Surveillance versus Control Group on Work Functioning of Hospital Employees: A Cluster-RCT

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Ketelaar, Sarah M ^a   Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen ^a   Gärtner, Fania R ^a   Bolier, Linda ^b   Smeets, Odile ^b   Sluiter, Judith K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JOB STRESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ONLINE SYSTEM; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; CONTROL GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884187226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072546     Document Type: Article

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