Perspectives of Italian Employers Regarding the Return to Work Process of Employees Who Received a Cancer Diagnosis: a Qualitative Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- 1. Open-ended questions of a semi-structured interview to collect the employers experience of the management of the RTW process
研究概览
简要总结
European Cancer Mission calls attention to the return to work (RTW) of cancer survivors (CSs), as one of the pivotal issues of the cancer continuum that need to be addressed through proper and prompt actions and recommendations. Employers are important stakeholders, as they can provide emotional and practical support, sustain communication during the entire process, and guarantee a gradual work reintegration. In Italy there is lack of knowledge regarding this topic. Thus, further exploration of Italian employers' perspectives on the RTW of employees with cancer should be performed to comprehend their unknown experiences.
The aim is to explore the perspectives of employers who dealt with the RTW process of employees who received a cancer diagnosis through a qualitative research design.
详细描述
Data collection will be performed through individual semi-structured interviews. Each interview will last around 60 minutes, and it can be arranged in person or remotely, depending on the participant's preference. Socio-demographic data, expertise of the employer, and company-related data will be collected through a semi-structured interview.
Experiences of employers will be collected through open-ended questions using an interview guide that was written based on the one used by Tiedtke et al., 2017, by adding some questions related to the facilitators and barriers perceived by employers during the sickness absence and RTW of employee with cancer.
The open-ended questions will concern general information about the company, employers' experience after cancer disclosure and during sick leave, employers' experience to sustain the RTW process and the long-term work reintegration, and the influence of the experience on the company.
Each interview will be audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analyzed according to the thematic analysis method using an inductive approach with open coding.
Analysis will be iterative and involve multiple researchers to ensure inter-rater reliability of the coding procedure and the methodological rigor of the analysis.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •employers* of a company
- •being directly involved in managing the RTW process of at least one employee with cancer diagnosis in the last 5 years.
- •An employer can be the specific person who represents the company where the employee was working at the time of cancer diagnosis or a person who supported the employee during the sickness absence and the RTW process (e.g., line manager, human resource manager).
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
1. Open-ended questions of a semi-structured interview to collect the employers experience of the management of the RTW process
时间窗: 12 months
Themes describing how employers managed the RTW process of employees with cancer, of their feeling and thoughts, of what actions did they do, and of the relationships and communication with the other members of the company
Open-ended questions of a semi-structured interview to collect the employers' necessities while supporting the RTW process
时间窗: 12 months
Themes describing what employers require to support employees who receive a cancer diagnosis in the RTW process
Open-ended questions of a semi-structured interview to collect the employers perceived barriers and facilitators while supporting the RTW process
时间窗: 12 months
Themes describing the facilitators and barriers perceived by employers during the RTW process of employees who received a cancer diagnosis. For this outcome, themes will be classified using the Resource Dependence Institutional Cooperation (RDIC) model, developed by Rijk et al. and adjusted by Greidanus et al. (2018).
次要结局
未报告次要终点