The impact of team climate for innovation on well-being and stress in elderly care.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the impact of team climate in providing support for innovation on well-being and stress and to explore whether well-being is a mediating variable between team climate and negative stress.


BACKGROUND
The well-being of the nursing staff needs to be improved in elderly care as well as the quality of the care. Team work may be a way of addressing both needs.


METHODS
A questionnaire was completed by auxiliary nurses and nurses' aides (n = 329) within elderly care in Sweden. Structural equation modelling was used to test the relationships among team climate, well-being and stress.


RESULTS
The perceived team climate has a significant positive correlation with well-being and a significant negative correlation with stress reactions. The structural equation modelling suggested that well-being is a mediating variable between team climate and stress.


CONCLUSIONS
A better team climate providing support for innovation may increase well-being and decrease stress reactions among nursing staff.


CONCLUSIONS
Interventions that improve the team climate and provide support for innovation may increase the possibilities for growth and self-actualization of the employees that, in turn, make them more qualified to deal with stress.
Dackert
Ingrid
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Culture and Society, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden. ingrid.dackert@mah.se
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004777:Environment; D005260:Female; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010465:Perception; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult