Health Interventions to Improve Work and Well-Being Among Child Welfare Workers: A Scoping Review

Abstract

The work environment among child welfare workers (CWW) has often been described as intensive and complex, filled with uncountable negative experiences for CWW. Several authors have also pointed out that measures should be in place to curb these negative workplace experiences. Since most recent publications within the field points to the impact of psychosocial risks on the health and well-being on CWW, the current scoping review explored the literature to investigate existing intervention studies and provide recommendations for future research. We employed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist as a guide for reporting findings. The authors explored five databases and identified a total of nine primary studies investigating health and well-being intervention among CWW in the review. Based on the intervention focuses of the included studies, three overarching thematic categories were constructed: design team-based interventions, colleagues/peer interventions, and individual-centered interventions. Findings showed that more health and well-being intervention research tailored to the needs of CWW is needed within the field.