Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Creating an Ear and Hearing Health Culture for Professional Ear Users: Current Perspectives on Challenges, Management, and Recommendations

Professional ear users (PEUs), including musicians, instrument makers, or sound engineers, depend on highly trained auditory abilities for occupational performance. Given these demands, PEUs may benefit from tailored prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. Ear and hearing disorde...

Changes in perceived psychosocial working conditions after psychotherapeutic consultation at work – exploratory post-hoc analyses from a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Psychotherapeutic consultation at work (PT-A) is a low-threshold intervention providing early work-focused treatment to employees with symptoms of common mental disorders (CMD). This post-hoc analysis explores whether PT-A, compared with routine care, is assoc...

Vocational peer support for people with serious mental illness: a scoping review on mechanisms, structures, lived experience and perceived impacts

Abstract People with serious mental illness face multiple barriers to (re-)entering the workforce, including early exclusion from the labor market, stigmatization, mental health instability, and fragmented support systems. Peer support, understood as social, emotional, and practi...