Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine and Health Services Research, University Hospital Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Medical Services, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany.
BMJ Open. 2020 Nov 18;10(11):e043908. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043908.
Currently, many countries, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, discuss how the 'lockdown-restrictions' could be lifted to restart the economy and public life after the first wave of the COVID-19 disease has subsided. This study protocol describes an approach designed to provide an in-depth understanding of how companies and their employees in Germany deal with their working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are also interested in how and why the risk of infection with SARS-CoV-2 could vary across different professional activities, company sites and regions with different epidemiological activity or infection control measures in Germany. We expect the results of this study to contribute to the development of working conditions protecting the health of employees during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
An explorative multimodal mixed methods approach will be applied. comprises a document analysis of prevailing federal and regional laws and regulations at the respective location of the participating company. includes qualitative interviews with key actors at different companies. is a repeated standardised employee survey designed to capture potential changes in the participants' experiences and attitudes towards working conditions, occupational safety regulations/measures, and infection control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. comprises SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence testing. This is carried out by the medical service of the participating company sites as a voluntary offer for employees. Qualitative data will be analysed through document and content analysis. The complexity of the quantitative analysis depends on the response rates of modules 3 and 4.
The approval of the study design was received in June 2020 from the responsible local ethical committee of the Medical Faculty, University of Tübingen and University Hospital Tübingen (No. 423/2020BO). The results will be presented at national and international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals.
目前，许多国家受到 COVID-19 大流行的影响，正在讨论如何在 COVID-19 疾病的第一波消退后，通过“封锁限制”来重启经济和公共生活。本研究方案描述了一种方法，旨在深入了解德国的公司及其员工在 COVID-19 大流行期间如何应对工作条件，并了解感染 SARS-CoV-2 的风险为何以及为何会因不同的职业活动、公司地点以及德国不同地区的流行病学活动或感染控制措施而有所不同。我们预计这项研究的结果将有助于制定在 COVID-19 大流行期间和之后保护员工健康的工作条件。
将采用探索性多模态混合方法。（1）对参与公司所在地点的现行联邦和地区法律和法规进行文件分析。（2）对不同公司的主要利益相关者进行定性访谈。（3）是一项重复的标准化员工调查，旨在捕捉参与者在 COVID-19 大流行期间对工作条件、职业安全法规/措施和感染控制措施的体验和态度的潜在变化。（4）包括 SARS-CoV-2 血清流行率检测。这是由参与公司地点的医疗服务部门作为员工的自愿服务提供的。定性数据将通过文件和内容分析进行分析。定量分析的复杂性取决于模块 3 和 4 的响应率。
该研究设计于 2020 年 6 月获得了图宾根大学医学系和图宾根大学附属医院负责的当地伦理委员会的批准（No.423/2020BO）。研究结果将在国内和国际会议上展示，并发表在同行评议的期刊上。
