title: Occupational balance in health professionals in Sweden.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health care employees are often women, a group that has high degrees of sick leave and perhaps problems attaining occupational balance. However, people think differently about their everyday activities and it is therefore important to take their perceptions into account but occupational balance has not yet been measured in health professionals. The aim was to describe occupational balance in three different samples of health professionals in Sweden. A further aim was to investigate whether occupational therapists (OTs) rate their occupational balance differently from other health professionals.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four hundred and eighty-two health professionals, employees in public dentistry, mental health care and OTs, aged 21-70 years participated. The participants' occupational balance was measured using the occupational balance questionnaire (OBQ).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The ratings of occupational balance were similar to earlier studies and did not differ significantly between the samples. The OTs' occupational balance was also similar to that of the other health professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The similarities in occupational balance indicate the same difficulties in attaining it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The result highlights the possibility that working people face similar difficulties in achieving occupational balance. Further research is warranted about how to attain it.
authors.affiliation: a School of Health and Welfare , Jönköping University , Jönköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wagman
authors.affiliation: a School of Health and Welfare , Jönköping University , Jönköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Ulrika
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lindmark
authors.affiliation: a School of Health and Welfare , Jönköping University , Jönköping , Sweden.|b Futurum, Academy for Health and Care , Jönköping County Council , Jönköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rolander
authors.affiliation: c Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Center , Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wåhlin
authors.affiliation: d Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , Lund University , Lund , Sweden.
authors.forename: Carita
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Håkansson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D000072358:Work-Life Balance
keywords: Everyday life; health and well-being; occupational balance questionnaire (OBQ)