Quality of work and well-being of health care employees: Towards a problem solving intervention approach

Abstract

This thesis describes the role of a problem solvingintervention approach in improving quality of work and well-being of healthcare employees. The promising results of a problem solving intervention as wellas the strength and limitations of it, point at the possible importance ofproblem solving research within the field of health care employeesinterventions. The study limitations that are described in the generaldiscussion, however, also point at the need for carefull interpretation of thestudy results. Therefor, more extensive research is needed to furtherunderstand the interventional and theory based mechanisms that underlie healthcare employees problem solving behaviors. There is stil much more to know aboutthe role of specific problem solving mechanisms in health care interventions.Implementing the results of this thesis in future problem solving studies inhealth care employees might bring the appli cation of problem solving theory inthe field of worksite health promotion up to a next level.