Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
According to recent reports of immigrants working in poor conditions worldwide, the International Committee of Health (ICOH, 2021) has declared the immediate need to create scientific evidence to encourage a preventive culture in occupational health for migrant workers. In 2019, 470,125 immigrants lived in Tennessee, of which 43% are Latino, and Spanish the most common language (76%). The present study aims to identify the work-demands, resources, and barriers to achieve optimal well-being in immigrant workers with a sample recruited from Chattanooga and the surrounding area. Participants will be recruited through convenience and snowball sampling with the inclusion criteria of being at least 18 years old and working full time in a manual labor job with hourly pay or project-based/contract for at least 5 years. The participants will form three focus groups of eight members each, based on evidence concluding that code and thematic saturation can be found in focus group research designs with three to six focus groups (Guest et al., 2017). To structure the discussion and data gathering, a semi-structured questionnaire in Spanish will be composed of three sections: Perceived hazards at work, which will contain questions like “Have you encountered any materials or instruments at work that you believe are harmful to your health?”. Resources to protect well-being, which will contain questions like: “Do you have any strategies to protect your health while at work?”. And barriers to access to needed resources for optimal well-being, which will include questions like: “Are there any additional resources or support that you wish you had access to at work to enhance your well-being?”. The data gathered will be analyzed using Thematic Analysis to identify themes in a data-driven, bottom-up, and a deductive approach. Two coders with Spanish proficiency will achieve consensus of interpretations while coding the data and identify themes that share common ideas. The researcher expects to find demands, resources, and barriers like prior research, but also aim to explore novel factors not identified in empirical research, such as perceived access to care, physical and psychological connectedness to long exposure, and surveillance of diseases. With immigration increasing worldwide, leaders of organizations need to seriously consider the opportunity this presents to identify and hire diverse talent, as well to acknowledge the resources they need to be happier and productive (Fang et al., 2022).
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Poser RCIO Demands, resources and barrier IW.
Understanding the Work Demands, Resources, and Barriers to Achieving Optimal Well-Being in Immigrant Workers
According to recent reports of immigrants working in poor conditions worldwide, the International Committee of Health (ICOH, 2021) has declared the immediate need to create scientific evidence to encourage a preventive culture in occupational health for migrant workers. In 2019, 470,125 immigrants lived in Tennessee, of which 43% are Latino, and Spanish the most common language (76%). The present study aims to identify the work-demands, resources, and barriers to achieve optimal well-being in immigrant workers with a sample recruited from Chattanooga and the surrounding area. Participants will be recruited through convenience and snowball sampling with the inclusion criteria of being at least 18 years old and working full time in a manual labor job with hourly pay or project-based/contract for at least 5 years. The participants will form three focus groups of eight members each, based on evidence concluding that code and thematic saturation can be found in focus group research designs with three to six focus groups (Guest et al., 2017). To structure the discussion and data gathering, a semi-structured questionnaire in Spanish will be composed of three sections: Perceived hazards at work, which will contain questions like “Have you encountered any materials or instruments at work that you believe are harmful to your health?”. Resources to protect well-being, which will contain questions like: “Do you have any strategies to protect your health while at work?”. And barriers to access to needed resources for optimal well-being, which will include questions like: “Are there any additional resources or support that you wish you had access to at work to enhance your well-being?”. The data gathered will be analyzed using Thematic Analysis to identify themes in a data-driven, bottom-up, and a deductive approach. Two coders with Spanish proficiency will achieve consensus of interpretations while coding the data and identify themes that share common ideas. The researcher expects to find demands, resources, and barriers like prior research, but also aim to explore novel factors not identified in empirical research, such as perceived access to care, physical and psychological connectedness to long exposure, and surveillance of diseases. With immigration increasing worldwide, leaders of organizations need to seriously consider the opportunity this presents to identify and hire diverse talent, as well to acknowledge the resources they need to be happier and productive (Fang et al., 2022).
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology