University of Southampton Reports Findings in Risk Management (Quantifying the impact of environment factors on the risk of medical responders’ stress-related absenteeism): Risk Management

2022 MAR 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Risk Management is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Southampton, United Kingdom, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Medical emergency response staff are exposed to incidents which may involve high-acuity patients or some intractable or traumatic situations. Previous studies on emergency response staff stress-related absence have focused on perceived factors and their impacts on absence leave.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Southampton, “To date, analytical models on absenteeism risk prediction use past absenteeism to predict risk of future absenteeism. We show that these approaches ignore environment data, such as stress factors. The increased use of digital systems in emergency services allows us to gather data that were not available in the past and to apply a data-driven approach to quantify the effect of environment variables on the risk of stress-related absenteeism. We propose a two-stage data-driven framework to identify the variables of importance and to quantify their impact on medical staff stress-related risk of absenteeism. First, machine learning techniques are applied to identify the importance of different stressors on staff stress-related risk of absenteeism. Second, the Cox proportional-hazards model is applied to estimate the relative risk of each stressor. Four significant stressors are identified, these are the average night shift, past stress leave, the squared term of death confirmed by the Emergency Services and completion of the safeguarding form.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We discuss counterintuitive results and implications to policy.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Quantifying the impact of environment factors on the risk of medical responders’ stress-related absenteeism. Risk Analysis, 2022. Risk Analysis can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Risk Analysis - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1539-6924)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Zhiyin Chen, Dept. of Decision Analytics and Risk, University of Southampton, Centre for Risk Research, Southampton, UK. Additional authors for this research include Mario P. Brito, James Wise and Simon Mortimore.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13909. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Risk Analysis can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

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