Hoffmeister Michael R, Slack Kristen S
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2024 Aug;29(3):474-486. doi: 10.1177/10775595241240774. Epub 2024 Mar 19.
The public child welfare system is plagued with high turnover, which is consistently associated with job-related stress. However, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced challenges that impact both the work and caseworkers' decision to stay in their job. To better understand stressors and intention to stay amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one state-level agency implemented a survey, completed by forty-eight percent of public child welfare caseworkers in the state. The current analysis employs multinomial logistic regression to predict intention to stay in the job and in the field and narrative analysis to describe caseworker experiences. Expanding on prior research, findings suggest that caseworker perception of an organization's response to COVID-19 challenges is associated with a caseworker's intent to leave. Further, this study highlights the distinction in commitment to the field compared to commitment to one's job, introduces challenges associated with work during the COVID-19 pandemic, and describes worker-identified benefits of those work changes.
公共儿童福利系统饱受人员高流动率之苦，而这一直与工作压力相关。然而，新冠疫情带来了各种挑战，既影响工作，也影响个案工作者继续留任的决定。为了更好地了解新冠疫情期间的压力源和留任意愿，一个州级机构开展了一项调查，该州48%的公共儿童福利个案工作者完成了此项调查。当前的分析采用多项逻辑回归来预测留任工作和该领域的意愿，并采用叙事分析来描述个案工作者的经历。在先前研究的基础上进行拓展，研究结果表明，个案工作者对组织应对新冠疫情挑战的认知与个案工作者的离职意愿相关。此外，本研究凸显了对该领域的投入与对本职工作的投入之间的差异，介绍了新冠疫情期间工作所面临的挑战，并描述了工作者所认同的这些工作变化带来的益处。
