Research project ST/04 (Research action ST)
THEME:
The study may be placed in a general curative and preventative context in terms of workers' health. It will explore possible actions that may be taken in this regard.
Absenteeism, workplace accidents and illnesses that incur costs on the part of the community are often problems indicative of stress caused by a constrictive working environment and/or inadequate behaviour.
Theme of the secondary study:
The study may be placed in a general curative and preventative context in terms of workers' health. It will explore possible actions that may be taken in this regard.
OBJECTIVES:
Objectives of the network:
To establish original tools for measuring and evaluating the variables leading to stress on both an environmental and individual level, taking account of the correlation that exists with the stress response.
To develop an explanatory model of favourable or unfavourable correlations with health. This model will comprise a tool for ascertaining the optimum functioning of the subject in his or her working environment in a preventative and curative context. It will also allow the provision of indicators for selecting personnel according to specific working conditions.
Objectives of the secondary study:
To test the predictive validity of the measuring tools developed in a curative and preventative context. The diagnostic process established using the twin-track normative model on specific populations (main study), will allow intervention in the case of an individual, the environment or both at once in order to obtain a degree of congruence that will benefit the health of the individual.
ST/03/009:
Transversal and prospective analysis of the relationship between job stress, psychosocial parameters (interactive model) and various dimensions of physical health.
Objectives of Dr. Fischler's personal contribution to the main study:
Determining the fundamental physical and biological parameters of stress. Determining, on the basis of a corresponding transversal and prospective study, the relationship between job stress, psychosocial parameters and physical health.
ST/12/012:
Demonstrating the bio-psycho-social parameters that describe the subject's functioning in his or her working environment and predict the individual's state of health, and proposing preventative measures.
Objectives of Prof. Fontaine's contribution to the main study:
Delineation, classification and application of cognitive, emotional and behavioural strategies developed by the worker to manage his or her stress, and the bio-psycho-social consequences of the success of this adaptive capacity, by means of an analysis of the individual/working environment. These operations will lead to the development of an adequate and rapid psychological analysis based on a global model for interpreting and predicting relationships in terms of health between the characteristics of the individual and those of his or her working environment.
Objectives of Prof. Fontaine's personal contribution to the secondary study:
(see objectives of the secondary study)
Prof. Fontaine's team will take full charge of this study.
Analyse van de relatie tussen professionele stress, psychosociale parameters en verschillende dimensies van de fysieke gezondheid: eindrapport
Brussel: DWTC 2001 (SP0836)
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Analyse van de relatie tussen professionele stress, psychosociale parameters en verschillende dimensies van de fysieke gezondheid: summary
Brussels: OSTC, 2001 (SP0837)
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Maîtrise des facteurs environnementaux et bio-psycho-sociaux des milieux de travail: Vers un modèle interactionniste diagnostic des facteurs de risque liés au stress et propositions d'interventions de prévention: rapport final
Fontaine, O. - De Keyser, V. Bruxelles: SSTC, 1999 (SP0946)
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Mastering environmental and bio-psycho-social factors in the work environment. Towards an interactionist model of risk factors associated with stress: executive summary
Brussels: OSTC, 1999 (SP0947)
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Study of the relationship between job stress, psychosocial variables, and different dimensions of physical health: executive summary
Brussels: OSTC, 1999 (SP0948)
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