1. Work empowerment among cancer care professionals: a cross-sectional study
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Mervi Siekkinen, Liisa Kuokkanen, Hannele Kuusisto, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Päivi Rautava, Maijastiina Rekunen, Laura Seppänen, Minna Stolt, Leena Walta, and Virpi Sulosaari
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Empowerment ,Work ,Cancer care ,Personnel ,Interprofessional ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Abstract Background There is a growing understanding that empowerment of interprofessional personnel is linked to job satisfaction levels and quality of care, but little is known about empowerment in the context of cancer care. This study describes how interprofessional cancer care personnel perceive their performance and factors that promote work empowerment. Methods This cross-sectional study enrolled 475 (45.2%) of the 1050 employees who work at a regional cancer centre. The participants used two self-administered questionnaires – the Performance of an Empowered Personnel (PEN) questionnaire and Work Empowerment Promoting Factors (WEP) questionnaire – to report perceptions of work empowerment. Both questionnaires’ categories comprise moral principles, personal integrity, expertise, future orientation, and sociality. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics, Versions 24 and 25. Results Overall, the performance of work empowerment was evaluated as being rather high (overall sum score mean: 4.05; range: 3.51–4.41; scale: 1–5). The category that rated highest was moral principles (4.41), and the one rated lowest was the social category (3.51). The factors that promoted work empowerment also ranked high (3.93; range: 3.55–4.08; scale: 1–5), with personal integrity (4.08) the highest and future orientation (3.55) the lowest. Performance and factors that promoted work empowerment correlated positively, moderately, and highly statistically significantly (r = 0.531; p
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- 2021
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