“Det rullar inte bara på” : En studie i socialt arbete om samverkan under sjukskrivning för utmattning
(2021) SOPA63 20202School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate how people who have been on sick leave due to fatigue syndrome, reason about the interaction with authorities, the employers and health care, and how they describe their experiences of the sick leave procedure and their way forward from there. We conducted a qualitative study with nine semi-structured interviews. For our theoretical approach we applied the theory of individualization (Beck 1992; 1998), the GAIL system in structural functionalism (Parsons 1951; 1991) and the sick role (Parsons 1975). The study showed that the sick leave procedure was considered to be highly demanding and all interviewees described that a lot of responsibilities were placed upon themselves to make it work.... (More)
- The aim of this study was to investigate how people who have been on sick leave due to fatigue syndrome, reason about the interaction with authorities, the employers and health care, and how they describe their experiences of the sick leave procedure and their way forward from there. We conducted a qualitative study with nine semi-structured interviews. For our theoretical approach we applied the theory of individualization (Beck 1992; 1998), the GAIL system in structural functionalism (Parsons 1951; 1991) and the sick role (Parsons 1975). The study showed that the sick leave procedure was considered to be highly demanding and all interviewees described that a lot of responsibilities were placed upon themselves to make it work. Negative attitudes towards the fatigue sick role from the surrounding, lead many of the interviewees to develop feelings of guilt. This generated additional stress which made it more demanding to carry the sick role and to move on from the fatigue. Collaboration between authorities, employers and health care instances were mainly described as lacking. Moreover, in many of the cases, the employers were described as reluctant to take on part of the responsibility for the experienced pressure from the workplace dynamics and for the employees’ state of fatigue. The interviewees expressed a fear to return to the workplace due to expectations to perform as much as before. All in all, the individuals were often forced to tackle the sick leave process on their own, in their own way. These findings were analysed as an individualization of structural (mal)functions, such as lack of collaboration between authorities, and scepticism of fatigue as a social phenomena. The study concludes that the workplace is a crucial yet not always visible agent during sick leave due to fatigue syndrome, and that it is also considered important for how the process after the sick leave can take shape. (Less)
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- Shehada, Ayah LU and Jönsson, Anna LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20202
- year
- 2021
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Keywords: Fatigue syndrome, sick leave process, collaboration, authorities, employer
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9035919
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- 2021-01-20 16:54:06
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abstract = {{The aim of this study was to investigate how people who have been on sick leave due to fatigue syndrome, reason about the interaction with authorities, the employers and health care, and how they describe their experiences of the sick leave procedure and their way forward from there. We conducted a qualitative study with nine semi-structured interviews. For our theoretical approach we applied the theory of individualization (Beck 1992; 1998), the GAIL system in structural functionalism (Parsons 1951; 1991) and the sick role (Parsons 1975). The study showed that the sick leave procedure was considered to be highly demanding and all interviewees described that a lot of responsibilities were placed upon themselves to make it work. Negative attitudes towards the fatigue sick role from the surrounding, lead many of the interviewees to develop feelings of guilt. This generated additional stress which made it more demanding to carry the sick role and to move on from the fatigue. Collaboration between authorities, employers and health care instances were mainly described as lacking. Moreover, in many of the cases, the employers were described as reluctant to take on part of the responsibility for the experienced pressure from the workplace dynamics and for the employees’ state of fatigue. The interviewees expressed a fear to return to the workplace due to expectations to perform as much as before. All in all, the individuals were often forced to tackle the sick leave process on their own, in their own way. These findings were analysed as an individualization of structural (mal)functions, such as lack of collaboration between authorities, and scepticism of fatigue as a social phenomena. The study concludes that the workplace is a crucial yet not always visible agent during sick leave due to fatigue syndrome, and that it is also considered important for how the process after the sick leave can take shape.}},
author = {{Shehada, Ayah and Jönsson, Anna}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{“Det rullar inte bara på” : En studie i socialt arbete om samverkan under sjukskrivning för utmattning}},
year = {{2021}},
}