“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

Verburgh, Marjolein; Verdonk, Petra; Appelman, Yolande; Zanten, Monique Brood-van; Nieuwenhuijsen, Karen

doi:10.3390/ijerph17186462

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“…First, these women work in Dutch health care and in underresourced professions doing shift work with tight working schedules. For quite some time, there has been a chronic shortage of staff ( University of West Virginia, 2020 ). Second, women often have many other informal caring responsibilities.…”

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“…We examined effect by means of a pre- and posttest study in combination with semi-structured interviews. However, detailed information on the effect of the WLP is beyond the scope of this article and is described in a separate article ( Verburgh et al, 2020 ).…”

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“… Note. See our separate article for a more detailed description of each component ( Verburgh, et. al., 2020 ).…”

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Workplace Health Promotion Among Ethnically Diverse Women in Midlife With a Low Socioeconomic Position

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Workplace health promotion (WHP) may be an appropriate way to support women with a low socioeconomic position (SEP) during midlife. Little is known about reaching and engaging women in WHP, particularly not at the intersection of midlife, low SEP, and ethnicity. We initiated the ProudWoman project, in which we implemented a WHP intervention aimed at supporting midlife women as a pilot in an academic hospital. We qualitatively evaluated the implementation using the RE-AIM framework. The pilot comprised multiple steps: tailoring the intervention to the needs of ethnically diverse group of midlife women with a low SEP, developing an implementation protocol, implementing the tailored intervention, and evaluating the implementation process. The main findings of our study are: (1) due to a wide range of recruitment activities that were actively deployed, we were able to reach an ethnically diverse group of midlife women with a low SEP; (2) regarding adoption, awareness of the relevance of this topic as an occupational health challenge was not self-evident at the organizational level; (3) according to our participants, various facilitators and barriers should be taken into account in the implementation of the work–life program; and (4) our focus group discussion revealed as maintenance is relevant to these levels in different ways, awareness of midlife and menopause as an occupational health challenge should be raised at four professional levels. We conclude that elements, such as an active and personal recruitment approach, are important in the implementation of WHP for ethnically diverse midlife women with an SEP.

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“…To counter this, the taboo around menopause requires an upturn in mentally empowering workplace health promotions. 11…”

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Menopause as a well-being strategy: Organizational effectiveness, gendered ageism and racism

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Beck

2021

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Objective This study considers the example of one council who deliberately implemented menopause considerations into their well-being strategy instead of instituting a menopause policy. This example is used to explore whether such a strategy is a more viable and effective alternative. Study Design An online survey was distributed amongst council workers and completed by 189 individuals. The questions covered respondents’ own experiences of menopause transition at work (where applicable) and the availability of information and support for menopause at work, as well as a range of contextual factors. Main outcome measures Experiences of workplace environments and relationships by those experiencing menopause. Results Results on menopause experiences in this council are comparable to those in organizations who have implemented menopause policies or guidelines. Contextual factors, including gendered vertical segregation and racism, are highlighted as important factors influencing the experience of menopause transition in the workplace. Conclusions Early indications suggest that integrating menopause support into a health and well-being strategy helps mainstream menopause issues amongst staff. Long-term assessment is required to consider whether it is more effective than introducing a menopause policy or guidelines.

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“…Other studies examined the impact of menopausal symptoms on a variety of sustainable careerrelated outcomes, such as work ability and burn-out (see for example [64,65]). Moreover, several interventions aimed at improving work ability and quality of life during menopause were performed (see for example [66,67]). Finally, the study of Steffan [9] described Figure 8 shows that the motor theme menopause covers topics such as health, postmenopausal women, symptoms, work, intervention, experiences, adults, quality of life, attitudes, and midlife.…”

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Menopause and Sustainable Career Outcomes: A Science Mapping Approach

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Pak

Santana

2021

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This paper provides a systematic review of the phenomenon of menopause at the workplace from a sustainable career perspective, by highlighting its major themes along with the evolution and tendencies observed in this field. A conceptual science mapping analysis based on co-word bibliographic networks was developed, using the SciMAT tool. From 1992 to 2020, 185 documents were retrieved from the Web of Science. In the first analyzed time span (1992–2002), postmenopausal women, health, and risk factors appeared to be the motor themes (well-developed and important for the structure of the discipline under focus), and disorder was an emerging or disappearing theme in the phenomenon under research. In the second studied period (2003–2013), risk and health were motor themes, menopausal symptoms was a basic or transversal theme (important for the discipline but not well-developed), coronary heart disease was a specialized theme (well-developed but less important for the structure of the research field), and postmenopausal women was an emerging or disappearing theme (both weakly developed and marginal to the field). In the third studied period (2014–2020), menopause, breast cancer, and menopausal symptoms were motor themes, Anxiety was a specialized theme and risk and body mass index were emerging or disappearing themes. Sustainability of women’s careers in the second half of life is of increasing importance given the increasing equal representation of men and women in working organizations, and the impact of the changing nature of work in the 21st century on older workers.

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“I Get That Spirit in Me”—Mentally Empowering Workplace Health Promotion for Female Workers in Low-Paid Jobs during Menopause and Midlife

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Workplace Health Promotion Among Ethnically Diverse Women in Midlife With a Low Socioeconomic Position

Workplace Health Promotion Among Ethnically Diverse Women in Midlife With a Low Socioeconomic Position

Menopause as a well-being strategy: Organizational effectiveness, gendered ageism and racism

Menopause and Sustainable Career Outcomes: A Science Mapping Approach

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