This is not part of my job! Longterm health consequences of illegitimate tasks in welfare work
Research Project
Facts
- Contact person:
- Hanne Berthelsen
- Financer:
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- AFA försäkring
- Responsible at MaU:
- Hanne Berthelsen
- Project members at MaU:
- External project members:
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- Constanze Leineweber - Stockholm University
- Johanna Stengård – Stockholm University
- Time frame:
- 01 October 2022 - 30 September 2025
- Faculty/department:
- Research environment :
- Research subject:
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- Work and the labour market
- Health and Society
- Epidemiology
About the project
Many experience that an excessively large portion of working hours is devoted to tasks perceived as either unnecessary or unreasonable. For instance, entering data into incompatible systems (unnecessary) or a nurse having to clean instead of attending to patients (unreasonable). Currently, there is limited research on illegitimate tasks, and it is unknown which groups experience many such tasks. A few studies, primarily cross-sectional, indicate associations between illegitimate tasks and stress, exhaustion, and depression. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate how illegitimate tasks affect the health and well-being of different groups in the workforce over time.