Affiliation:
1. Department of Nursing Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is a need to shift from biomedical and pathogenic approaches to salutogenic approach. OBJECTIVE: To validate the Finnish version of the SHIS by testing its psychometric properties in care workers and to assess the SHIS score over time. METHODS: We first conducted a survey in 2020 (T1) and tested the psychometric properties of SHIS among care workers. We repeated the survey in spring 2022 (T2) among the same subjects. We analyzed the changes in SHIS, self-rated health (SRH), work ability (WAS), sickness absence and occupational calling between T1 and T2. Thereafter, we compared changes between health care sectors’ and the other sectors’ care workers. RESULTS: The results showed an increase in positive health measured with the SHIS and the occupational calling, a decrease in the SRH, and an increase in the number of sickness-related absences among all the care workers between T1 and T2. There was no change in their WAS. The health care workers had a lower SHIS than the other sectors’ care workers in both T1 and T2, but the increase in their SHIS was parallel to that of the other workers. CONCLUSION: SHIS is a useful and reliable measure of positive health and can be used in studies when determining subjective health instead of, or in addition to, diagnoses. It was able to detect the health changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. SHIS is capable of capturing the underlying salutogenic approach of health promotive resources.
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Rehabilitation
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