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Perceptions Of Stress: Employee Participation In A Yoga Class, Rosemarie Lee
Perceptions Of Stress: Employee Participation In A Yoga Class, Rosemarie Lee
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Abstract
Employees experience workplace stress that can affect their health resulting in chronic diseases such as diabetes, stress, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Stress also contributes to staff presentism, absenteeism, and high turnover rate. The employee wellness program (EWP) yoga class at a metropolitan teaching hospital has not been evaluated for its effectiveness in employee stress reduction and improvement in employee health. The practice focus question for this project explored employees' perception of the impact of a metropolitan teaching hospital's EWP yoga class on their stress reduction and health promotion activities. The theoretical framework for this project is Lazarus' transactional model …