Background
Intervention
Recovery activities done individually or together with co-workers | Recovery activities together with the whole employee group |
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Deep breathing exercises | Recovery reminders in the form of coloured stickers around the centre |
Relaxation exercises | Monthly recovery reflection |
Stretching exercises | Notice board with positive messages |
Access to relaxation room | Team building activities |
Interprofessional reflection group meetings | Morning meetings |
Access to gym | Organized after-work activities |
Lunch break walks | Joint physical activity exercises |
Mail with mindfulness exercises | Concept discussions (e.g. manageability, influence, companionship, feedback) |
Brief positive messages on toilet door | Weekly positivity letter from manager |
Mindfulness sessions | |
Joint breakfasts | |
Workplace development day | |
Changes in the physical environment | |
Management team | |
Music in the break room | |
Suggestion box for recovery ideas | |
Reflection sessions | |
Breakroom as a work-free zone | |
Step counter contests | |
Medical yoga therapy | |
Basic body awareness therapy |
Method
Setting and participants
n | |
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Sex | |
Women | 34 |
Men | 5 |
Profession | |
Nurse | 19 |
Physician | 1 |
Paramedical staff | 9 |
Administrative staff | 10 |
Total | 39 |
Data collection
Analysis
Results
Categories | Subcategories |
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Support | Help |
Feedback | |
Encouragement | |
Legitimacy | Transparency |
Ownership | |
Enthusiasm | |
Customization | Flexibility |
Maintenance | |
Simplicity | Convenience |
Integration |
Categories | Subcategories |
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Climate | Companionship |
Familiarity | |
Openness | |
Influence | |
Well-being | Calm |
Joy | |
Energy | |
Exercise | |
Awareness | Eye-opening |
Ripple effect |
Promoting factors
Support
… I think that when we’re all friends and we help each other and you get flow in the work, that you get help and give help and that kind of thing, then you get to recover when you feel that it’s quite okay for me to go out and sit down for ten minutes and have a cup of coffee in the morning … (2).
But positive feedback, I think, actually gives a lot. When you give feedback to a co-worker who did something good.Yes… It strengthens you. (3).
… so you probably need to get a little more encouragement from time to time to get on or kind of keep it alive, so to speak … (3).
Legitimacy
I think one of the most important things is simply to inform about what opportunities there are for recovery, what suggestions you have, and then really emphasize that it’s okay to use these tools … that it’s okay to go away and use these tools for recovery, so that you can then come back and maybe be able to do a better job. (6).
So it’s us, it’s we ourselves who have this morning meeting … it’s perfectly obvious that we ourselves influence it, that you remember that, so to speak. (3).
But sometimes it may be enough that there’s like someone who’s a bit more go-ahead and a bit extrovert in a group, who can maybe involve … well, those who might find it a bit harder and are maybe a bit slower at the beginning and it can often be a bit liberating, so I think that as long as there are just a few heads that have a little more of that, I think it kind of brings the whole group along. (4).
Customization
And then it is a matter of being a bit quick-thinking and thinking about, can we change it in some way? (6).
Somehow you need to get these reminders, I think, continuously. (3)
Simplicity
… it was so very simple and smooth and doesn’t take so long … (7).
And that you get used to things that make it come naturally. (2).
Upward spirals
Climate
… I imagine that … that it [the project] strengthens the cohesion and the sense of solidarity… (5).
And I think that no matter what task you have, you’re… when we are here, we are both our profession and our person, you can’t just separate them, somehow. So it’s nice to have some insight into the other as well. (5).
So ….yes, but positive, I think it actually contributed a little bit to kind of open up a little bit, to create a little … a somewhat lighter climate as well. I suppose that’s how I feel it. (4).
If you feel that you have very little influence, even if you understand that this has to be implemented because it has been decided, but if you feel that you don’t have much influence, that you can still in some way influence it, then you take this in a completely different way. (2).
Well-being
Well, you still felt relaxed in a way, so … you felt relaxed when you got up and started working afterwards. (4).
… but it’s a different kind of good atmosphere now, and a whole new joy … it’s almost as if it’s built into the place now. Before, it was that you kind of felt it like this, but now it kind of pervades everything, in my experience.
Yes, you kind of get a more positive feeling.
That you maybe feel better than you have done before. (4).
… it’s recovery when you hear laughter. (5)
… then I felt kind of alert and fit for fight again, and both the patients and the colleagues benefit from that … (3).
Well, it feels good, you know, I feel good when I’m working out and then everything gets better, like, and I feel better … meeting the patients in it, so I think it’s really nice when you have the opportunity to do it. (4).
Awareness
I think I have become aware that there are many different forms of recovery, just that people think recovery is different things, whether it’s going away or if there is a funny sticker or if there is better structure in the work maybe. (6).
… I put up and change a bit on the inspiration board, because it gives me something and I hope it will spread ripples when you do something like that. (7).