ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2010
Psychosocial work environment as a risk factor for absence with a psychiatric diagnosis: an instrumental-variables analysis.
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- Work-Related Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Workplace Sickness Absence: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Psychosocial Stressors at Work and the Risk of Sickness Absence Due to a Diagnosed Mental Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Job strain and tobacco smoking: an individual-participant data meta-analysis of 166,130 adults in 15 European studies.PloS one · 2012Pooled it
- Impact of psychosocial work factors on risk of medically certified sick leave due to common mental disorders: a nationwide prospective cohort study of Norwegian home care workers.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Opportunities and challenges in using instrumental variables to study causal effects in nonrandomized stress and trauma research.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2023Review
- Assessment of worklife areas, trust in supervisor and interpersonal trust as conditions of severity of stress at work.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2022Article
- Healthcare workers' heterogeneous mental-health responses to prolonging COVID-19 pandemic: a full year of monthly follow up in Finland.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Implications of Islamic Governance towards Psychosocial Work Stressors and Work Productivity.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- Job stress factors measured by Brief Job Stress Questionnaire and sickness absence among Japanese workers: A longitudinal study.Fukushima journal of medical science · 2020Article
- Cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress associated with sickness absence among Japanese men and women: A prospective study.Brain and behavior · 2020Article
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- A Study into Psychosocial Work Stressors and Health Care Productivity.The international journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
- Determinants of Sickness Absence and Return to Work Among Employees with Common Mental Disorders: A Scoping Review.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Article
- The Unique Environmental Influences of Acute Care Settings on Patient and Physician Well-Being: A Call to Action.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2018Article
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- Stress and cardiovascular disease.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2012Review
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Abstract
Recent reviews show that self-reported psychosocial factors related to work, such as job demands and job control, are associated with employee mental health, but it is not known whether this association is attributable to reporting bias. The authors examined this question using objectively measured hospital ward overcrowding as an instrument. The extent of overcrowding provided a strong instrument for self-reported job demands but not for job control, and it was used to examine unbiased associations between self-reported job demands and sickness absence with a psychiatric diagnosis among 2,784 female nurses working in somatic illness wards in Finland. During the 12-month follow-up period (2004-2005), 102 nurses had an absence with a psychiatric diagnosis, 33 with a diagnosis of depressive disorder. Both greater extent of overcrowding and higher self-reported job demands were associated with increased risk of psychiatric absence. The latter association was stronger but less precisely estimated in an instrumental-variables analysis which took into account only the variation in self-reported job demands that was explained by overcrowding. Repeating these analyses with absence due to depressive disorders as the outcome led to similar results. Findings from this instrumental-variables analysis support the status of high self-reported job demands as a risk factor for absence with a psychiatric diagnosis.
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