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Health and Well-Being of Church Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences of Health and Work-Related Distress from Musicians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland

by
Tuire Kuusi
1,*,
Satu Viertiö
2,
Anna Helenius
1 and
Kati Tervo-Niemelä
3
1
Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
2
Department of Public Health and Welfare, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland (THL), 00271 Helsinki, Finland
3
Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Theology, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
*
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(16), 9866; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169866
Submission received: 28 June 2022 / Revised: 3 August 2022 / Accepted: 8 August 2022 / Published: 10 August 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Workplace Health and Wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19)
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Abstract

Earlier research has revealed contrasting gender results in standardized mortality ratios (SMR) for cancers and cardiovascular diseases of Finnish church musicians compared with the general population. In order to better understand the SMRs, our study examined gender differences in health and work-related experiences of church musicians with special focus on experienced stress and burnout on the one hand, and work engagement and mental well-being on the other. The data were collected by a questionnaire including both standardized measures and open-ended questions. Statistical methods (mostly χ2 tests) were used for examining gender differences in the measures, and the open-ended questions were analyzed using theory-driven content analysis. The two sets of data complemented each other. Analyses of the standardized measures showed that church musicians have more burnout and distress than the general population but the results were not gendered. However, the open-ended questions revealed clearly higher distress in females than in males. Based on the contrast between the measures and the open-ended questions, we raise the question about how well females who have distressing work can recognize the stress factors and change them, especially if distress becomes a “normal state”.
Keywords: self-rated health; burnout; work engagement; well-being at work; church musician; gender differences self-rated health; burnout; work engagement; well-being at work; church musician; gender differences

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Kuusi, T.; Viertiö, S.; Helenius, A.; Tervo-Niemelä, K. Health and Well-Being of Church Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences of Health and Work-Related Distress from Musicians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9866. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169866

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Kuusi T, Viertiö S, Helenius A, Tervo-Niemelä K. Health and Well-Being of Church Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences of Health and Work-Related Distress from Musicians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(16):9866. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169866

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Kuusi, Tuire, Satu Viertiö, Anna Helenius, and Kati Tervo-Niemelä. 2022. "Health and Well-Being of Church Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences of Health and Work-Related Distress from Musicians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16: 9866. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169866

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Kuusi, T., Viertiö, S., Helenius, A., & Tervo-Niemelä, K. (2022). Health and Well-Being of Church Musicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Experiences of Health and Work-Related Distress from Musicians of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 9866. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169866

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