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Our Interactive Dashboard Is Now Live!

We are excited to announce the launch of our interactive results consultation platform (dashboard), providing you with easy access to explore and analyze our data. It is currently available in French, German and Italian. Feel free to take a look!

April 10 2025

Informal care, Personnality and Well-being: Selection and Socialization Effects

Informal caregiving provides societally important healthcare functions but can take a toll on
caregivers. However, little is known about psychological effects of informal caregiving and their
specific temporal trajectories. Here, we focused on personality traits and well-being and examined
selection (who becomes a caregiver?) and socialization effects (how do caregivers change over
time?). We used longitudinal data from Dutch, German, and Australian representative panel
studies to examine selection and socialization effects of caregivers’ Big Five personality traits and
five well-being aspects. With increasing time spent on informal caregiving, caregivers increased in
neuroticism in two of the three studies and, on the item-level, tended to become less lazy, more
considerate, and more worried. Well-being decreased relatively consistently over the transition
to caregiving and as caregivers intensified their time investment. We did not find robust
moderation effects of gender and the caregiving context (care tasks, relationship with care
recipient, and fulltime employment). We discuss theoretical and practical implications for
personality development and ways to advance research into psychological antecedents and
consequences of informal caregiving.

Sprache: Englisch

Empfohlen von der Schweizerischen Fachgesellschaft für Prävention und Gesundheitswesen (SPHD) für die Anerkennung von Weiterbildungen.

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February 6 2025

Toward a Better Understanding of Physician Career Transitions and Trajectories

Past research has assumed that a physician’s career trajectory follows an “innate developmental dynamic” and that the factors influencing physician behavior are static and generalizable over time. This presentation will describe how enhancing our understanding of how physician careers unfold—the patterns of similarity and dissimilarity between male and female physicians in different generational cohorts—has the potential to inform health workforce policy and planning.

Sprache: Englisch

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January 23 2025

SCOHPICA Informal caregivers: First results of the pilot study

In spring 2024, the pilot baseline questionnaire was launched and collected data from informal caregivers (ICs) in Switzerland. In this presentation, we will discuss the implementation of this study and its implications. We will also present descriptive results, providing us insights into the characteristics of ICs as well as their current situation and well-being. The acceptability and feasibility of this study will also be explored in the light of future data collection.

Sprache: Englisch

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December 12 2024

Putting Workers at the Heart of the Promotion of Quality Care

Long-term care in Switzerland faces significant challenges that crystallize in the difficulties faced to recruit and retain workers. Our research started from the premise that there was a hidden malaise among LTC workers that had to be explored by teasing out their perspective. We co-developed the research process with workers to identify both problems and solutions to the LTC crisis. A key grievance for is the lack of organizational autonomy, which thwarts workers’ ability to draw on their expertise and experience to provide quality care. It is therefore the organization of care work that is stifling workers and contributing to their frustration, generating what we call the vicious cycle of care. To respond to this challenge, the collective voice of workers must be heard in policy discussions, and we have developed, with the support of Unia, a worker-driven Manifesto.

Sprache: Englisch

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November 28 2024

Sustainable HR management in healthcare: input from the SCOHPICA open comments

This presentation will be the opportunity to present the results of the analysis of the nearly 2,000 free comments left by SCOHPICA respondents at the end of the baseline questionnaire in 2022 and 2023. It will highlight the themes and sub-themes which, for respondents, have an impact on their intention to stay, taking into account their professional groups and working contexts. This analysis will be put into perspective with the issue of healthcare professionals’ retention in healthcare institutions and, more broadly, in the healthcare system.

Sprache: Englisch

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October 3 2024

Healthcare professionals in Switzerland: two years of the SCOHPICA project

During the last two years, over 5900 healthcare professionals participated in SCOHPICA. In this talk, we will discuss recent advancements in the SCOHPICA project and present main results, comparing them across the first two data collection years, i.e., 2022 and 2023. Furthermore, we will explore how various professional characteristics interact with well-being and the intention to stay in the profession. SCOHPICA continues to support the monitoring, planning and management of the Swiss health workforce by providing essential data to healthcare stakeholders.

Sprache: Englisch

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July 4 2024

PAuSES: a student health service for informal caregivers.

PAuSES is a training-action program for all informal caregivers and future healthcare professionals. It has two objectives: to set up a support action for informal caregivers and to enable students to learn about the day-to-day reality of informal caregivers.
This conference presents the organization and benefits of a program combining professional training and a personal assistance service. Linked to the research of the SCOHPICA-PA project, PAuSES could also contribute to the development of research on informal caregivers.

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March 21 2024

The challenges and difficulties of informal caregivers: perspectives on caregiver burnout

Informal Caregivers provide much-needed assistance both to the person with a loss of autonomy and to the care system in general. Despite the benefits this role can bring to caregivers, it is also worth exploring the difficulties it can pose. The research on burnout provides a rich framework for understanding the difficulties faced by caregivers. This presentation will provide a brief history of the concept of caregiver burnout and explain how it answers to major limitations in the existing literature. Based on a model (the Informal Caregiving Integrative Model) and empirical findings, a structure of risk and protective factors will be proposed to better understand the sources of caregivers‘ difficulties. This will enable us to define key points of attention in the consideration of caregivers in both research and clinical practice. Finally, we will look at the prospects for the field, particularly the role of the SCOHPICA project in improving our understanding of the challenges facing informal caregivers in the years to come.

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December 7 2023

The Nursing profession and the transition from work to retirement – a German perspective

How do older workers anticipate their transition to retirement? This question will be addressed based on recent data from the representative German lidA-Study. The focus of the presentation lies on nursing.
In Germany, most older workers want to leave employment much earlier than legal retirement age. The dominant reasons given indicate the wish for a self-determined life. Poor work and health problems rank 4th and 5th. Nurses would like to exit earlier than other professional groups with a stronger impact of poor work and health problems. Yet, this profession also exhibits resources. A new concept will be presented to promote longer working of older nurses in hospitals in Germany.

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November 23 2023

Early professional careers of nurses in Switzerland – Results of a longitudinal study after career start

In a long-term study, the ZHAW School of Health Sciences examined the career trajectories of a cohort of nurses who graduated in 2011/12 in Switzerland. The project was part of the Competence Network Health Workforce CNHW, a cooperation between Universities of Applied Sciences in Health in Switzerland. Six years after graduation more than 600 nurses participated in the final survey, representing 38% of the 2011/12 cohort. The research highlights that the early years in a nursing career involve professional development and frequent job transitions. Potential retention measures include improving working conditions, addressing work-life balance issues, and increasing recognition.

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August 31 2023

Factors associated with the well-being and intention to stay of healthcare professionals in Switzerland: results from the SCOHPICA survey

Over 1700 healthcare professionals were surveyed during the 1st data collection of the SCOHPICA national cohort. In this talk, we will explore in more detail the socio-professional data gathered and investigate their relationship with well-being and turnover intention. We will also examine how various factors such as workload, available resources, meaning of work, burnout or recognition at work, among others, are associated with professionals’ intention to stay in the profession and well-being. These findings may open up promising pathways for enhancing the satisfaction and retention of healthcare professionals in Switzerland.

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May 4 2023

STRAIN – Work-related stress among health professionals in Switzerland: It is all about the leaders

The STRAIN study was an intervention study with data from a total of 19’000 health professionals. Within this framework, a training program for managers was developed and evaluated. The results show what the main reasons are for leaving the profession early and where to focus. Results and recommendations are available here. In the follow-up project STRAIN II, organizations can implement and evaluate recommendations.

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March 30 2023:

SCOHPICA: Presentation of the First Results

The baseline survey collected data among 1853 healthcare professionals, exceeding the original target of 1500 participants and showing promising signs of data collection for this project. This is essential for the data to capture the reality experienced by healthcare professionals in the field. These first results will provide first hints on the current situation, working conditions, experience and well-being of the Swiss healthcare workforce.

The PowerPoint is available in English, German, French and Italian.

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March 2 2023:

Health and Care Workforce in Europe: Time to Act

All health systems are facing serious health and care workforce issues. The time to act is now; the situation is a „ticking time bomb“. In this context, WHO has prepared a report that describes the health and care workforce situation in the European Region and identifies policy options. The results of this report will be presented and discussed during the presentation of Tomas Zapata

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26 January 2023:

The medicine in Australia: balancing employement and life (MABEL) panel of doctors. Lessons of engagement

MABEL was a panel survey of around 10,000 doctors per year, which ran between 2008 and 2018. This presentation will describe the main features of the MABEL survey, and then outline the MABEL plan for policy engagement, the extent to which it was achieved, and what we would do differently if we did it all again.
Language: English

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17 novembre 2022:

Besoin et offre en relève dans le domaine des soins: éclairage du rapport national sur le personnel de santé 2021

Thème:
Dans son troisième rapport national, l’Obsan fournit une estimation des besoins en personnel de soins et d’accompagnement à l’horizon 2029. Pour ces analyses, on considère non seulement l’évolution des besoins de la population mais également les départs à la retraite et sorties précoces de la profession. Grâce à l’intense activité de formation de ces dernières années, le taux de couverture des besoins de relève s’est amélioré mais un écart conséquent persiste entre l’offre et les besoins pour le personnel infirmier.

Intervenante:
Dre Clémence Merçay, Cheffe de projet scientifique, Obsan – CH.

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22 septembre 2022:

Journée de lancement de SCOHPICA !

Toutes les personnes travaillant sur le projet se réuniront et la récolte de données commencera avec le questionnaire sur les professionnel·le·s.

“If the health workforce were a patient, it would be on life support”

Donnée par Ivy Bourgeault, professeure de sociologie et anthropologie à l’Université de Ottawa (Canada). Ses travaux portent sur les professionnel·le·s de santé dans une perspective de genre. 

D’autres conférences sur la thématique des professionnel·le·s de la santé seront également au programme.