Work-home interaction as predictor of engagement among family health units

There are no conflicts of interests for any authors. Work-home interaction as predictor of engagement among Family Health Units Cristina Queirós1,2, Ana Mónica Pereira1,2, Pedro Monteiro1,3 & Miguel Cameira1,2 1 Psychosocial Rehabilitation Laboratory (FPCEUP/ESTSPIPP), Porto, Portugal 2 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPCEUP), University of Porto , Portugal 3 School of Allied Health Sciences, Porto Polytechnic Institute, (ESTSPIPP), Portugal 1. Background & Aims Work and family can influence each other in a negative and positive way (Geurts et al., 2005; Jaga et al., 2013; Moreno-Jiménez et al., 2009), having consequences for health professionals, families and work domain (Amstad et al., 2011; Mcnall et al., 2010). One of its important consequences is work engagement (Kacmar et al., 2014; Martin, 2013), being negatively related with negative work-home interaction (Rothmann & Baumann, 2014), and positively related with positive work-home interaction (Montalbán et al., 2012). This study aims to identify work-home interaction and engagement levels among professionals of Family Health Units (doctors, nurses, clinical secretaries) and to analyze the correlation between these two variables, searching work-home interaction as predictor of engagement. 2. Methods 3. Results 4. Conclusions References Data were collected inside of a broader project of Pereira (2016), using anonymous questionnaires composed by sociodemographic questions and Portuguese versions of SWING (Geurts et al., 2005; Pereira et al., 2014) and UWES (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003; Marques-Pinto & Picado, 2011), to assess, respectively, work-home interaction and engagement. After formal institutions' authorization, voluntary participated 263 professionals from Family Health Units of Porto and Viana do Castelo districts (120 doctors, 92 nurses, 51 clinical secretaries), with mean age of 40 years, being 78% female, 67% married, 64% with children and 80% working 40 hours per week. Family Health Units are a special and recent organization model of primary health care in Portugal. Professionals reported moderate levels of negative workhome interaction, positive work-home interaction and positive home-work interaction, and low levels of negative home-work interaction (Table 1). Engagement dimensions were high, and positive correlations were found between engagement and work-home or home-work positive interactions. Negative correlations were found between engagement and work-home or home-work negative interactions. 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