Development of a Scale to Measure an Unemployment Syndrome: Items Generation and Content Validity, 2019, Bocchino et al

Andy

Andy

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Definitely not a recommendation.
PURPOSE
To develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on the unemployment syndrome.

METHODS
The development consisted of four phases: (I) review of literature, (II) concept elicitation, (III) concept selection and item construction, and (IV) content validation.

FINDINGS
Twenty final items that were established as adequate for being included in the instrument.

CONCLUSION
The unemployment syndrome scale could be used to identify the needs and sintomatology of unemployed people and support the identification of the syndrome.

IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE
The instrument makes it possible to assess the symptomatology specific to the syndrome and to record properly the assessment of the biopsychosocial conditions on the part of the nursing profession for providing quality comprehensive care.
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Paywall, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2047-3095.12261
Not available via Scihub at time of posting.
 
this was their previous attempt in 2016
The Nursing Diagnosis Development of Unemployment Disorder: Content Validation With Nursing Experts
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2047-3095.12149
http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-3095.12149
Conclusions
As indicated above, the biopsychosocial problems derived
from unemployment are connected with intersubjective re-
lationships, environmental aspects, and aspects specific to
the affected subject, to say nothing of the influence that it
has on psychological well-being in this context. The need to
identify productive elements is confirmed, and in this case,
establishing corresponding measures for improvement and
preventive actions in nursing practice in this environment
could be especially complex. The correlations of multiple
variables would prompt consideration to opt for a more ster-
ile concept that is less attached to the clinical description,
in which psychophysical change and its causal relationship
with the health problems evidenced in the referenced liter-
ature would be prioritized. However, the interest that the is-
sue has been raising for decades has generated numerous
studies that have attempted to measure the true extent of
the problem and to assess whether unemployment could or
could not be a type of public health problem.
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The results suggest that the inclusion of the NANDA-I tax-
onomy of the validated nursing diagnostic version of “un-
employment disorder” would provide nursing professionals
with the ability to name a health problem that they observe
and attend to it in a standard manner in their clinical prac-
tice. This ability would warrant the planning of more effective
care because nursing diagnoses are tools that help identify
a problem, its causes, and its manifestations and, therefore,
would provide the information needed to plan the most spe-
cific interventions (e.g., promoting optimal health of patients
through anxiety reduction, use a calm approach, clearly the
hope of the offender patients, accompany the patient to
provide security and reduce fair) and outcomes related to
unemployment disorder (e.g., identification of the level of
anxiety, self-control of their feelings, fears, perceptions, self-
control of aggression, coping with problems; Herdman &
Kamisuru, 2014).
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I don't see how 'giving it a name' would help, it would only add to stigmatisation.
 
Right, because people can't merely be unemployed, it has to be part of some psychosocial "unemployment syndrome", for which we need a questionnaire? What ever happened to old fashioned communication?

I think "unemployment syndrome" is some sort of bad translation as there are no references of this in the literature, in terms of something that an individual would suffer from.

It's funny how instead of dealing with a societal phenomena, with distinct sociological factors, the focus is still on a magic fix that tells the individual to pick themselves up with their own bootstraps.
 
I have attempted to give my opinion on this a few times this morning.

I can't.

It's just so absurd I end up ranting for pages.

So.

'I disagree that unemployment is a medical condition requiring care by nursing staff'
 
There are Markov chain bots that are more coherent than this.

Clearly one solution to unemployment syndrome is to hand out employment to people whose work is about equivalent to throwing a bunch of cue cards with vague concepts down some stairs while yelling "BPS BPS BPS" and tacking together all those that fall side down on even stairs.

Yet another example of how fundamental attribution errors need to be reined in as they seem to be growing. People who reject reality and substitute their own never contribute anything of value to science, no matter how many years of education they have.
 
Nah, the cure for unemployment is being in a socioeconomic class that doesn't require employment.

On a personal level, if I had a few hundred million then being unemployed wouldn't bother me, or any nurses, at all.

Being unemployed isn't the problem, it's being unemployed with insufficient money thats' the problem.

The solution seems both obvious and simple.
 
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