Building Bridges Between Social Work and Prenatal Psychology

This issue of Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention is dedicated to decea- sed co-founder of our Journal and President of the International Society of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine, Director of the First Department of Peri- natal Psychology and Medicine, Honorary Doctor and holder of Honorary Degrees and Medals of multiple Universities in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Malaysia, etc, Doctor of Medicine and Psychology and Editor in chief of four Medical Journ- als: Acta Neurosa Superioris Rediviva, Neuroendocrinology Letters, Clinical Social Work and Health Intervention and Int. Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (1-4). Together with his spouse Lili Maas, ArtD., who added to the exact science, arts and her heart and love, all of those Journals were not only reading of naked facts and theories, or science but both were teaching us to accept psycho- logy, social work and medicine as art culture and love, what is more than science and knowledge, more than facts. (From the letter of St. Paul and two letters of St. Peter, New Testament)

INSTRUMENTOS DE AVALIAÇÃO DA LITERACIA EM SAÚDE ACERCA DO TABACO: TRADUÇÃO E ADAPTAÇÃO PARA PORTUGUÊS EUROPEU

Objetivo: traduzir e adaptar culturalmente para português europeu os instrumentos de avaliação da literacia em saúde acerca do tabaco Attitudes Towards Tobacco Use, Tobacco-Use Motives e Motivation to Decline Tobacco Use in the Future, e Smoking Outcome Expectation Scale e Anti-Smoking Self-Efficacy Scale, e realizar validação preliminar. Método: tradução e adaptação transcultural de acordo com as recomendações do Institute for Work and Health e validação preliminar em 144 adolescentes de duas escolas públicas da região central de Portugal, em abril e maio de 2019. Resultados: foram retirados itens relativos a snus, por não apresentarem relevância no contexto português. Assim, dois instrumentos passaram a ser constituídos apenas por um item. Os valores de alfa de Cronbach das versões em português europeu foram 0,799, 0,673, 0,905 e 0,890. Conclusão: contribui para a existência de instrumentos de avaliação da literacia em saúde acerca do tabaco, adaptados para português europeu, para a população dos adolescentes

Self-employment, work and health: A critical narrative review

BACKGROUND: Self-employment (SE) is a growing precarious and non-standard work arrangement internationally. Economically advanced countries that favor digital labor markets may be promoting the growth of a demographic of self-employed (SE’d) workers who are exposed to particular occupational diseases, sickness, and injury. However, little is known about how SE’d workers are supported when they are unable to work due to illness, injury, and disability. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to critically review peer-reviewed literature focusing on advanced economies to understand how SE’d workers navigate, experience, or manage their injuries and illness when unable to work. METHODS: Using a critical interpretive lens, a systematic search was conducted of five databases. The search yielded 18 relevant articles, which were critically examined and synthesized. RESULTS: Five major themes emerged from the review: (i) conceptualizing SE; (ii) double-edged sword; (iii) dynamics of illness, injury, and disability; (iv) formal and informal health management support systems; and (v) occupational health services and rehabilitation. CONCLUSION: We find a lack of research distinguishing the work and health needs of different kinds of SE’d workers, taking into consideration class, gender, sector, and gig workers. Many articles noted poor social security system supports. Drawing on a social justice lens, we argue that SE’d workers make significant contributions to economies and are deserving of support from social security systems when ill or injured.

Supporting participation in paid work of cancer survivors and their partners in the Netherlands: protocol of the SusTained Employability in cancer Patients and their partnerS (STEPS) multi-centre randomized controlled trial and cohort study

Background Many cancer survivors experience physical and/or psychosocial problems affecting return to work (RTW) and work retention. Current interventions on RTW lack evidence regarding effectiveness, while interventions for work retention are missing. Partners of cancer survivors may also experience work- and health-related outcomes; yet, these consequences are not well understood. Here, the protocol of the STEPS study is described. The study aims are to: 1) evaluate the (cost-)effectiveness of a rehabilitation program for RTW and work retention in cancer survivors, and 2) assess health- and work-related outcomes among cancer survivors’ partners. Methods In a multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), 236 working-age cancer survivors with an employment contract will be randomly allocated to a usual care group or an intervention group receiving a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program, combining occupational therapy facilitating work retention (e.g., energy management and self-efficacy training) and reintegration consultation addressing work-related issues (e.g., RTW planning and discussing workplace or task modifications with the supervisor). Alongside the RCT, a prospective cohort study will be conducted among cancer survivors’ partners (n = 267). Participants in the RCT and cohort study will be asked to complete questionnaires at baseline, and after six and 12 months, assessing work- and health-related outcomes. Generalized estimating equations will be used to assess intervention’s effectiveness, compared to usual care, regarding primary (i.e., working hours per week) and secondary outcomes. Also economic and process evaluations will be performed. For the cohort study, logistic or linear regression modelling will be applied assessing work- and health-related outcomes (primary outcome: working hours) of cancer survivors’ partners, and what factors predict these outcomes. Results The study is planned to start in September 2021; results are expected in 2023. Conclusion Compared to usual care, the STEPS intervention is hypothesized to be (cost-)effective and the intervention could be a valuable addition to standard care helping cancer survivors to sustain employment. Further, it is expected that living with a cancer survivor has a substantial impact on work and health of partners, while specific groups of partners that are at particular risk for this impact are likely to be identified. Trial registration Dutch Trial Register (NTR;NL9094; 15-12-2020).

ASSÉDIO MORAL : UM OLHAR PARA SAÚDE MENTAL DO TRABALHADOR

Moral harassment is a complex phenomenon and a reality faced in the workplace, it is a type of abuse that involves ethical principles, which can compromise the quality of life of workers, leading them to diseases and suffering in the workplace. This study describes a systematic bibliographic review search, using the following descriptors: "mental health of the worker", "moral harassment at work" and "health psychology". The results presented show that the consequences of bullying have been of great interest to several researchers, and that in general it involves some damage to safety and health at work and not only the individual issue of mental health. It is hoped that this study can contribute to reflections and debates about the impact of moral harassment on workers' health, allowing visibility of a theme that is little addressed and conveyed in the work environments themselves.