JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

Positive well-being at work of healthcare professionals is an important condition for achieving good patient care. Moreover, well-being at work is strongly associated with consequences at an individual level and an organizational level such as decreased quality of life of the healthcare worker, sickness and high staff turnover. Timely screening of well-being (at work) may be beneficial for the individual healthcare workers, the organization, and the patients. Adequate measurement of well-being is necessary for tailoring interventions contributing to more sustainable employability and quality of care. Published research shows a great variety in concepts and measures of well-being (at work) in terms of target population (professions), settings or aspects of well-being at work.

Objective:

: We will perform a scoping review aiming to provide an overview of evaluated instruments assessing and monitor healthcare professionals’ well-being at work.

Methods:

Literature will be searched in the databases: Medline, Embase and Cinahl. Studies will be eligible when: (a) assessing well-being at work of physicians or nurses employed in hospitals; (b) describing an evaluation of an instrument or reviewing an instrument; (c) measuring ‘well-being at work’ or aspects of ‘well-being at work’ according the elements of the JD-R model (d) published in English from 2011 onwards. Title/abstract screening according to the eligibility criteria will be followed by full-text screening. Data extraction of included studies will be conducted by three reviewers independently. Reviewers will use standardized data extracting forms consisting of: study characteristics, sample characteristics, measurement instrument details and psychometric properties.

Results:

This scoping review has a narrative approach, analysis will be descriptive and completed by the end of 2022.

Conclusions:

This scoping review identifies instruments that have been developed and validated for monitoring healthcare professionals’ well-being at work. Results seem critical for organizations to select a monitoring instrument that fits best to the employees and organization’s needs.