Jansson Inger, Gunnarsson A Birgitta
Department of Rehabilitation, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
Nyckeln Competence Centre for Pedagogics in Healthcare, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden.
Work. 2018;59(4):585-598. doi: 10.3233/WOR-182700.
Mental health problems (MHP) are common in working life and can be hard to respond to for employers. Therefore, knowledge of employers' perceptions of employees with MHP is important to support coping efforts of persons and their work environments.
Identify and characterise employers' perceptions of the impact of MHP on work ability.
Twelve employers with experience of employees with MHP were interviewed. Data were analysed with a phenomenographic method.
The first main category, "Experiences of employees with MHP", included experiences of diffuse and unexpressed signs of the onset of MHP and frustration among employers and work-mates which was difficult to verbalise. MHP could also be turned off, thus having no impact on work ability. The second main category, "Strategies to handle effects of MHP in the workplace", included the importance of continual responsiveness and communication, and of fluctuating adaptations. The informants expressed diversity in the workplace as a strategy.
Employers have experiences of, as well as strategies for, how to handle MHP at times when they impact with the ability to work. However, neither experiences nor strategies were explicitly pronounced and verbalised which makes it a challenge to develop strategies and guidelines in workplaces.
心理健康问题（MHP）在工作生活中很常见，雇主可能难以应对。因此，了解雇主对患有心理健康问题的员工的看法对于支持个人及其工作环境的应对努力很重要。
识别并描述雇主对心理健康问题对工作能力影响的看法。
对12位有管理患有心理健康问题员工经验的雇主进行了访谈。采用现象学方法对数据进行分析。
第一个主要类别“患有心理健康问题员工的经历”，包括心理健康问题发作时的弥漫性和未表达的症状，以及雇主和同事之间难以用言语表达的挫败感。心理健康问题也可能被消除，从而对工作能力没有影响。第二个主要类别“处理工作场所心理健康问题影响的策略”，包括持续响应和沟通以及灵活调整的重要性。受访者表示将工作场所的多样性作为一种策略。
雇主对于心理健康问题在影响工作能力时如何应对有经验和策略。然而，这些经验和策略都没有明确表述出来，这使得在工作场所制定策略和指导方针具有挑战性。
