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Are job strain and sleep disturbances prognostic factors for low-back pain?A cohort study of a general population of working age in Sweden

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine whether job strain, i.e. a combination of job demands and decision latitude (job control), and sleep disturbances among persons with occasional low-back pain are prognostic factors for developing ...
Eva Rasmussen-Barr, Wilhelmus J.A. Grooten, Johan Hallqvist, Lena W. Holm, Eva Skillgate   +4 more
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Job strain and cardiovascular disease risk factors: meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 47,000 men and women.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundJob strain is associated with an increased coronary heart disease risk, but few large-scale studies have examined the relationship of this psychosocial characteristic with the biological risk factors that potentially mediate the job strain ...
Solja T Nyberg, Eleonor I Fransson, Katriina Heikkilä, Lars Alfredsson, Annalisa Casini, Els Clays, Dirk De Bacquer, Nico Dragano, Raimund Erbel, Jane E Ferrie, Mark Hamer, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, France Kittel, Anders Knutsson, Karl-Heinz Ladwig, Thorsten Lunau, Michael G Marmot, Maria Nordin, Reiner Rugulies, Johannes Siegrist, Andrew Steptoe, Peter J M Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Töres Theorell, Eric J Brunner, Archana Singh-Manoux, G David Batty, Mika Kivimäki, IPD-Work Consortium   +28 more
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Who reported having a high-strain job, low-strain job, active job and passive job? The WIRUS Screening study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
OBJECTIVE:The Job Demands and Control model classifies job types as active, passive, low-strain or high-strain, based on a combination of job demands and control.
Tore Bonsaksen, Mikkel Magnus Thørrisen, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Randi Wågø Aas   +3 more
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Validity test of the IPD-Work consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between Job Content Questionnaire and Demand-Control Questionnaire

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2015
Objectives: This study aims to test the validity of the IPD-Work Consortium approach for creating comparable job strain groups between the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) and the Demand-Control Questionnaire (DCQ).
Bongkyoo Choi, Sangbaek Ko, Per-Olof Ostergren   +2 more
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Job strain, health and sickness absence: results from the Hordaland Health Study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectivesWhile it is generally accepted that high job strain is associated with adverse occupational outcomes, the nature of this relationship and the causal pathways involved are not well elucidated.
Min-Jung Wang, Arnstein Mykletun, Ellen Ihlen Møyner, Simon Øverland, Max Henderson, Stephen Stansfeld, Matthew Hotopf, Samuel B Harvey   +7 more
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Association for combined exposure to job strain, shift work on mental health among Chinese railway workers: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives The aim of this study was to assess the effects of coexposure to job strain and shift work on mental health in railway workers.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting One Railway Bureau Group in China.Participants A total of 1270 front-line ...
Wei Liu, Xin Xu, Yu Jiang, Chuancheng Wu, Tianqi Hu, Meilong Chen, Yabing Zhou, Zhibing Chen   +7 more
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Social adversity in adolescence increases the physiological vulnerability to job strain in adulthood: a prospective population-based study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundIt has been argued that the association between job strain and health could be confounded by early life exposures, and studies have shown early adversity to increase individual vulnerability to later stress.
Hugo Westerlund, Per E Gustafsson, Töres Theorell, Urban Janlert, Anne Hammarström   +4 more
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Effects of work burden, job strain and support on depressive symptoms and burnout among Japanese physicians

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2014
Objectives: Days off, on call, night duty, working hours and job stress can affect physicians’ mental health, and support from supervisors and co-workers may have a buffering effect.
Yasuaki Saijo, Shigeru Chiba, Eiji Yoshioka, Yasuyuki Kawanishi, Yoshihiko Nakagi, Toshihiro Itoh, Yoshihiko Sugioka, Kazuyo Kitaoka-Higashiguchi, Takahiko Yoshida   +8 more
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The indirect association of job strain with long-term sickness absence through bullying: a mediation analysis using structural equation modeling

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background In this longitudinal study the complex interplay between both job strain and bullying in relation to sickness absence was investigated. Following the “work environment hypothesis”, which establishes several work characteristics as antecedents ...
Heidi Janssens, Lutgart Braeckman, Bart De Clercq, Annalisa Casini, Dirk De Bacquer, France Kittel, Els Clays   +6 more
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Reciprocal associations between job strain and depression: A 2‐year follow‐up study from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Brain and Behavior, 2019
Background A growing number of people suffered from depression. This study examined the depression prevalence in workers across 10 European countries plus Israel and the reciprocal associations between job strain and depression.
Ya‐Mei Qiao, Ya‐Ke Lu, Zhen Yan, Wu Yao, Jin‐Jing Pei, Hui‐Xin Wang   +5 more
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