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Association Between Work-Related Safety And Work-Related Injuries Among Home Health Care Providers, Sania Mohammed Saleh Abdulkhaleq
Association Between Work-Related Safety And Work-Related Injuries Among Home Health Care Providers, Sania Mohammed Saleh Abdulkhaleq
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Home care nurses (HCNs) have reported a high rate of exposure to work-related injuries (WRIs). Nurses are challenged by the multidimensional problems associated with home care safety. These contextual risk factors increase the physical and social health problems of health care workers and of community suffering as a whole. This quantitative, cross-sectional study was designed to examine the relationship between the organization-related factors (ORFs) and the environment-related factors (ERFs) and their influences on safety behaviors (SBs) and the WRIs of HCNs. The PRECEDE framework was used to guide the study. Self-reported data were obtained from 74 home health care (HHC) …