Cristina Di Tecco

ORCID: 0000-0002-8260-2130
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Research Areas
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Technostress in Professional Settings
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Chemical Safety and Risk Management
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Occupational health in dentistry
  • Quality and Safety in Healthcare
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Risk Management in Financial Firms
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Critical Realism in Sociology

Istituto Nazionale per l'Assicurazione Contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro
2016-2025

Sapienza University of Rome
2014-2019

University of Bologna
2018

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
2018

Purpose – Work engagement represents an important aspect of employee well-being and performance has been related to both job personal resources. The purpose this paper, based on Social Cognitive Theory, is emphasize the proactive role self-efficacy which hypothesized predict work engagement, not only directly, but also indirectly through positive changes in employee’s perceptions social context (PoSC); namely, one’s immediate supervisor, colleagues top management. Design/methodology/approach...

10.1108/cdi-03-2015-0045 article EN Career Development International 2016-04-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour (ILO) are developing a joint methodology for estimating national global work-related burden of disease injury (WHO/ILO methodology), with contributions from large network experts. In this paper, we present protocol two systematic reviews parameters number deaths disability-adjusted life years depression attributable to exposure long working hours, inform development WHO/ILO methodology. We aim systematically review studies on...

10.1016/j.envint.2018.11.011 article EN cc-by Environment International 2019-02-06

Work-related stress is widely recognized as one of the major challenges to occupational health and safety. The correlation between work-related risk factors physical outcomes acknowledged. This study investigated socio-demographic variables involved in perceived stress.The Italian version Health Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool was used a large survey examine relationship risks workers' demographic characteristics. Out 8,527 questionnaires distributed among workers (from...

10.1186/1471-2458-13-1157 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2013-12-01

Abstract Background Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) represent an important socio-economic burden. The current risk assessment and management involved in the ethiopathogenesis of WMSDs is based on observational tools checklists, which have some limitations terms accuracy reliability. aim this study was to assess WMSD prevalence identify possible correlations with several socio-demographic work-related variables a large cohort representative Italian workers order improve our...

10.1186/s12891-020-03742-z article EN cc-by BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020-11-12

ABSTRACT Objective: This study examines the psychometric properties of a workplace-adapted version an existing Technostress scale to assess technostress in workers over 50 across different companies. Methods: Data were collected from 470 finance, packaging, and steel sectors. We evaluated internal consistency, criterion validity, factor structure using Cronbach’s alpha, McDonald’s Omega, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, correlations with stress, coping, well-being, workability. Results: Scale...

10.1097/jom.0000000000003349 article EN cc-by Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2025-02-20

Unwanted sexual attention (UWSA) and harassment (SH) are prevalent experiences for women in working life often accompanied by poor health. Despite increasing numbers especially of young people insecure irregular employment settings, there is little empirical evidence if such precarious arrangements associated with UWSA or SH. To investigate this, we used a representative sample the European population consisting 63,966 employees 33 countries who participated Working Conditions Survey 2010...

10.1371/journal.pone.0233683 article EN cc-by PLoS ONE 2020-05-28

Background Monitoring workplace violence (WPV) against health care workers (HCWs) through incident reporting is crucial to drive prevention, but the actual implementation spotty and experiences underreporting. Objective This study aims introduce a systematic WPV surveillance in 2 public referral hospitals Italy assess underreporting, annual rates, attributes “before” (2016-2020) “after” its (November 2021 2022). Methods During 2016-2020, was based on procedures data collection forms that...

10.2196/47377 article EN cc-by JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2023-11-13

Work-related stress is one of the major causes occupational ill health. In line with regulatory framework on health and safety (OSH), adequate models for assessing managing risk need to be identified so as minimize impact this not only workers' health, but also productivity.After close analysis Italian European reference work-related assessment management used in some countries, we adopted UK Health Safety Executive's (HSE) Management Standards (MS) approach, adapting it context order...

10.1016/j.shaw.2013.05.002 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Safety and Health at Work 2013-06-01

European employees are increasingly likely to work in cases of illness (sickness presenteeism, SP). Past studies found inconsistent evidence for the assumption that temporary workers decide avoid taking sick leave due job insecurity. A new measure identify decision-based determinants SP is presenteeism propensity (PP), which number days worked while ill relation sum and taken sickness absence. We investigated link between employment contract PP using cross-sectional data from 20,240...

10.3390/ijerph16101868 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019-05-27

This paper contributes to the literature on organizational interventions occupational health by presenting a concept study design test efficacy of Participatory Organizational-level Intervention improve working conditions and job satisfaction in Healthcare. The is developed using Italian methodology assess manage psychosocial risks tailored We added an additional step: evaluation, aiming examine how intervention works, what worked for whom which circumstances. ongoing conducted collaboration...

10.3390/ijerph17103677 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020-05-23

It is acknowledged that legislation acts as a motivator for organizational action on psychosocial risks. Our study aims to provide evidence the relationship between key occupational safety and health (OSH) policy principles work-related stress, and, in turn, with reported employee job demands resources their experience of stress. We focus Italy where specific practices stress were introduced 2008 which are underpinned by these OSH principles. Secondary analysis Italian samples from employer...

10.1016/j.shaw.2023.10.001 article EN cc-by Safety and Health at Work 2023-10-05

Starting from February 2020, in Italy most organizations have had a forced transition to flexible working practice - called "smart emergency" due the Covid-19 epidemic outbreak. This allowed continue work activities and services contributed contain risk of infection different sectors, particularly public administration.This follow up study focussed on panel 187 workers Italian Workers' Compensation Authority taking part pilot project "Smart Working INAIL" January 2019 December 2019. The aim...

10.23749/mdl.v112i2.10595 article EN PubMed 2021-04-20

Young workers are in particular need of occupational safety and health (OSH) services, but it is unclear whether they have the necessary access to such services. We compared young with older terms awareness OSH examined if differences employment conditions accounted for age-differences. used survey data from Italy (INSuLA 1, 2014), a sample 8000 employed men women aged 19 65 years, including 732 under 30 years. Six questions measured five assessed different issues. Several were included....

10.3390/ijerph15071511 article EN International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2018-07-17

Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) developed the Management Standards Indicator Tool to help organizations assess monitor organizational risks of work-related stress through surveying employees about psychosocial for in their jobs. The use employee-level data deriving an organizational-level measure assumes that constructs have equivalent meanings at different levels. However, this isomorphic condition has never been tested study fills gap. Using collected by Italian Workers'...

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02776 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Psychology 2019-12-19

Abstract Background Obesity is a multifactorial condition and major risk factor associated with several non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, higher of premature death disability. Sex-specific factors have key roles must be taken into consideration in studying occupational the obesity. The aim this study was to investigate gender differences body mass index (BMI) large cohort representative Italian workers and, correlating demographic variables, verify sex-...

10.1186/s12889-020-08817-z article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2020-05-16
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