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Developing stress-preventive management competencies: an evaluation of the mechanism and the process in a training experience (2025)
Journal Article
Toderi, S., Cioffi, G., Houdmont, J., Yarker, J., Lewis, R., & Balducci, C. (2025). Developing stress-preventive management competencies: an evaluation of the mechanism and the process in a training experience. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 18(3), 314-330. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-05-2024-0101

Purpose: Developing stress-preventive management behaviors is recommended to improve psychosocial working conditions and employee well-being. A learning and development intervention based on the UK “Management Competencies for Preventing and Reducing... Read More about Developing stress-preventive management competencies: an evaluation of the mechanism and the process in a training experience.

Investigating the fluid and electrolyte prescribing knowledge of Foundation Year doctors (2025)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Houdmont, J., Levy, N., & Lobo, D. N. (2025). Investigating the fluid and electrolyte prescribing knowledge of Foundation Year doctors. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2025.0004

Introduction
Changes to the medical curriculum have been advocated to improve knowledge on fluid and electrolytes. We aimed to determine the contemporary level of knowledge of trainee doctors on different aspects of fluid and electrolyte prescribing... Read More about Investigating the fluid and electrolyte prescribing knowledge of Foundation Year doctors.

Health and Safety Executive Management Standards: associations with operational effectiveness in policing (2025)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J. (2025). Health and Safety Executive Management Standards: associations with operational effectiveness in policing. Occupational Medicine, 75(2), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaf018

Background

The United Kingdom (UK) Health and Safety Executive’s Management Standards encompass a set of aspirational quality standards and a risk management methodology pertaining to psychosocial working conditions. Two decades since their introd... Read More about Health and Safety Executive Management Standards: associations with operational effectiveness in policing.

“It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Rossiter, L., Houdmont, J., & Brooks, C. (2025). “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2451213

Purpose
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has been associated with various adverse work outcomes in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding regarding how and why these outcomes arise for survivors experiencing fatigue. In response,... Read More about “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes.

“It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes (2025)
Journal Article
Rossiter, L., Houdmont, J., & Brooks, C. (2025). “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2025.2451213

Purpose
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) has been associated with various adverse work outcomes in quantitative research. However, there is limited understanding regarding how and why these outcomes arise for survivors experiencing fatigue. In response,... Read More about “It’s a struggle”: a qualitative investigation of relations between cancer-related fatigue and work outcomes.

Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being (2024)
Journal Article
Toderi, S., Cioffi, G., Yarker, J., Lewis, R., Houdmont, J., & Balducci, C. (2024). Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(8), Article 989. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21080989

The “Management Competencies to Prevent and Reduce Stress at Work” (MCPARS) approach focuses on identifying the stress-preventive managers’ competencies able to optimise the employees’ well-being through the management of the psychosocial work enviro... Read More about Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being.

“I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme (2024)
Journal Article
Lewis, I., & Houdmont, J. (2024). “I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 5, Article 1373888. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2024.1373888

Background: Research demonstrates sustained return to work (RTW) by individuals on medical leave is influenced by personal and job resources and job demands. Relatively few studies have been conducted in the workers’ compensation context that is know... Read More about “I’m pulling through because of you”: injured workers’ perspective of workplace factors supporting return to work under the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board scheme.

Management standards and burnout among surgeons in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Hassard, J., Daliya, P., Adiamah, A., Theophilidou, E., Lobo, D., & East Midlands Surgical Academic Network (EMSAN) Burnout Study Group, E. M. S. A. N. (. B. S. G. (2023). Management standards and burnout among surgeons in the United Kingdom. Occupational Medicine, 73(8), 484-491. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqad102

Background
Burnout arising from chronic work-related stress is endemic among surgeons in the UK. Identification of contributory and modifiable psychosocial work characteristics could inform risk reduction activities.

Aims
We aimed to assess th... Read More about Management standards and burnout among surgeons in the United Kingdom.