There is growing recognition that involving patients in the development of new patient-reported outcome measures helps ensure that the outcomes that matter most to people living with health conditions are captured. Here, we describe and discuss different experiences of integrating patients as full patient research partners (PRPs) in outcomes research from multiple perspectives (e.g., researcher...

BACKGROUND A patient research internship (Patient and Community Engagement Research program-PaCER) was created to support a provincial commitment by Alberta Health Services' Strategic Clinical Networks™ to find new ways to engage patients in a new interdisciplinary organization to support evidence-informed improvements in clinical outcomes across the health system. OBJECTIVE Implement and tes...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of bureaucratic structure on the employee engagement (ee). our study extends previous researches by considering bureaucracy from two points of view: enabling versus hindering. we study the extent to which these two types of bureaucracy are related to the two forms of employee engagement: organizational (oe) and work engagement (we). the vie...

work engagement literature has been dominated by quantitative research methods. this article aims to study work engagement antecedents using mixed-method sequential explanatory design. this design starts with the collection and analysis of quantitative data followed by the subsequent collection and analysis of qualitative data. the qualitative phase of the study was designed to incorporate the ...

This study examined the role of passion for work in the health impairment and motivational processes proposed by the job demands-resources model. Based on the dualistic model of passion, we proposed that harmonious and obsessive passion intervene simultaneously in the relationship between (1) job demands and burnout/ engagement, and (2) job resources and burnout/engagement. This model was teste...

INTRODUCTION Physician work engagement is considered to benefit physicians' professional performance in clinical teaching practice. Following an occupational health psychology perspective, this PhD report presents research on how physicians' professional performance in both doctor and teacher roles can be facilitated by work engagement and how work engagement is facilitated by job resources and...

In this article, we develop and meta-analytically test the relationship between job demands and resources and burnout, engagement, and safety outcomes in the workplace. In a meta-analysis of 203 independent samples (N = 186,440), we found support for a health impairment process and for a motivational process as mechanisms through which job demands and resources relate to safety outcomes. In par...

BACKGROUND A four-wave longitudinal study tested the demands-resources model in the school context. AIM To examine the applicability of the demands-resources to the school context. METHOD Data of 1,709 adolescents were gathered, once during the transition from comprehensive to post-comprehensive education, twice during post-comprehensive education, and once 2 years later. RESULTS The hypo...

Psychological Capital (PsyCap) construct is a core concept of positive psychology consisting of the positive psychological resources of self-efficacy, hope, optimism, and resilience. Previous studies confirmed link of PsyCap with employee attitude, behavior, workplace outcomes and job performance. In today's competitive environment, it is a challenging task for all organizations to enhance the ...