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Occupational stress, work-home interference and burnout among Belgian veterinary practitioners

open access: yesIrish Veterinary Journal, 2008
There have been few formal studies on stress in veterinary surgeons and, in the rare studies available, stress is not examined jointly through the levels of job strain and job engagement, the sources of stress in the issue of work environment and the ...
Hansez I, Schins F, Rollin F
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Job strain and alcohol intake: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 140,000 men and women.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundThe relationship between work-related stress and alcohol intake is uncertain. In order to add to the thus far inconsistent evidence from relatively small studies, we conducted individual-participant meta-analyses of the association between work-
Katriina Heikkilä   +49 more
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Job strain and informal caregiving as predictors of long-term sickness absence: A longitudinal multi-cohort study

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2017
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the individual, joint and interactive effects of job strain and informal caregiving on long-term sickness absence with special attention to gender differences.
Jesper Mortensen   +11 more
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Psychosocial working conditions and the utilization of health care services

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2011
Background While there is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence on how job stress affects physical and mental health, few studies have examined the association between job related stress and health care utilization. Using data from the Canadian
Sharaf Mesbah F, Azagba Sunday
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Job strain and tobacco smoking: an individual-participant data meta-analysis of 166,130 adults in 15 European studies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundTobacco smoking is a major contributor to the public health burden and healthcare costs worldwide, but the determinants of smoking behaviours are poorly understood. We conducted a large individual-participant meta-analysis to examine the extent
Katriina Heikkilä   +49 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Job Strain: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Amazon Basin

open access: yesArquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2019
Background: Ideal Cardiovascular (CV) Health is characterized by four ideal lifestyle parameters and absence of cardiovascular risk factors. The prevalence of ideal CV health in the Amazon Basin and the influence of job strain on CV health in this ...
Davi Dantas Muniz   +5 more
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Exploring the relationship between occupational stress, physical activity and sedentary behavior using the Job-Demand-Control Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
ObjectivesTo study the relationship between the occupational stress model, specifically the Job Demand-Control Model of Karasek, physical activity level and sedentary behavior.MethodThis is a cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study.
Maëlys Clinchamps   +6 more
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Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2012
Background Job strain (i.e., high job demands combined with low job control) is a frequently used indicator of harmful work stress, but studies have often used partial versions of the complete multi-item job demands and control scales.
Fransson Eleonor I   +23 more
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Temporal relationships between job strain and low-back pain

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2017
OBJECTIVES: Psychosocial working conditions are suggested risk factors for low-back pain, but it is unclear whether these associations are causal. The present study examined whether there are lagged and bidirectional associations between job strain and ...
Linda L Magnusson Hanson   +5 more
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