The associations of job strain and leisure-time physical activity with the risk of hypertension: the population-based Midlife in the United States cohort study [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2022 OBJECTIVES Job strain is positively associated with incident hypertension, while increasing leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) can reduce incident hypertension.
Xinyue Liu +3 more
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Constructing and validating an occupational job strain index based on five Norwegian nationwide surveys of living conditions on work environment [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background It has been claimed that Nordic register data are a “goldmine” for research. However, one limitation is the lack of information on working conditions. Job exposure matrices (JEMs) are one solution to this problem.
Giang Huong Le +2 more
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Suicidal ideation and their relationship with job satisfaction and job strain among Jordanian hospitals’ healthcare professionals: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthSuicidal ideation is a major health problem that occurs in response to complex interactions among psychological, sociocultural, and environmental factors.
Ann Mousa Alnajdawi +2 more
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Associations of Job Strain, Stressful Life Events, and Social Strain With Coronary Heart Disease in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study [PDF]
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background The association between psychosocial stress and coronary heart disease (CHD) may be stronger in women than men and may differ across types of stressors.
Conglong Wang +7 more
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Rewards of Compassion: Dispositional Compassion Predicts Lower Job Strain and Effort-Reward Imbalance Over a 11-Year Follow-Up [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Dispositional compassion has been shown to predict higher well-being and to be associated with lower perceived stress and higher social support. Thus, compassion may be a potential individual factor protecting from job strain. The current study examines (
Iina Tolonen +5 more
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Individual and organisational factors in the psychosocial work environment are associated with home care staffs’ job strain: a Swedish cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background Home care staff (HCS) provide essential service to enable older adults to age in place. However, unreasonable demands in the work environment to deliver a safe, effective service with high quality has a negative impact on the individual ...
Assander Susanne +4 more
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Is job strain associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus? A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021 OBJECTIVES: Epidemiological studies have explored the relationship between work-related stress and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but it remains unclear on whether work-related stress could increase the risk of T2DM.
Wenzhen Li +8 more
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Formulations of Job Strain and Psychological Distress: A Four-year Longitudinal Study in Japan [PDF]
Safety and Health at WorkBackground: Different job strain formulations based on the Job Demand-Control model have been developed. This study evaluated longitudinal associations between job strain and psychological distress and whether associations were influenced by six ...
Mayumi Saiki +4 more
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Job strain and burnout in Spanish nurses during the COVID-19: resilience as a protective factor in a cross-sectional study [PDF]
Human Resources for Health, 2022 Background Nurses are frequently exposed to chronic stress in the workplace generating harmful effects such as job strain and burnout. On the contrary, resilience has been shown to be a beneficial variable.
María del Mar Molero Jurado +4 more
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Psychosocial job strain and polypharmacy: a national cohort study [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2020 OBJECTIVES: Psychosocial job strain has been associated with a range of adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine the association between psychosocial job strain and prospective risk of polypharmacy (the prescription of ≥5 medications)
Edwin CK Tan +5 more
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