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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2012

The impact of changes in job strain and its components on the risk of depression.

Peter M Smith, Amber Bielecky

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Article in American journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  1. Psychosocial Occupational Exposures and Mental Illness.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2022
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  7. Factors related to depressive symptoms in Korean self-employed workers.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2021
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2 authors.

Peter M SmithInstitute for Work & Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2E9. psmith@iwh.on.ca
Amber Bielecky

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe assessed the impact of changes in dimensions of the psychosocial work environment on risk of depression in a longitudinal cohort of Canadian workers who were free of depression when work conditions were initially reported.

methodsUsing a sample (n = 3735) from the Canadian National Population Health Survey, we examined the effects of changes in job control, psychological demands, and social support over a 2-year period on subsequent depression. We adjusted models for a number of covariates, including personal history of depression.

resultsRespondents with increased psychological demands were more likely to have depression over the following 2 years (odds ratio = 2.36; 95% confidence interval = 1.14, 4.88). This risk remained statistically significant after adjustment for age, gender, marital status, presence of children, level of education, chronic health conditions, subclinical depression when work conditions were initially assessed, family history of depression, and personal history of depression.

conclusionsThese results demonstrate that changes in psychological demands have a stronger influence than changes in job control on the onset of depression, highlighting the importance of not assuming an interaction between these 2 components of job strain when assessing health outcomes.

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AdultAge FactorsCanadaDepressionFemaleHealth SurveysHumansInternal-External ControlLongitudinal StudiesMajor Depressive DisorderMaleMiddle AgedOccupational DiseasesRisk FactorsSex FactorsSocial Support

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PMID22390450
PMCPMC3484968

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