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Job strain and alcohol intake: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 140,000 men and women.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A review of the 257 meta-analyses of the differences between females and males in prevalence and risk, protective factors, and treatment outcomes for mental disorder.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial work exposures and health outcomes: a meta-review of 72 literature reviews with meta-analysis.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Pooled it
- Is job strain associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus? A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Pooled it
- Human resource management training of supervisors for improving health and well-being of employees.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Multicohort Study of 90,164 Individuals.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017Pooled it
- Personality and alcohol consumption: Pooled analysis of 72,949 adults from eight cohort studies.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Pooled it
- Long working hours and alcohol use: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2015Pooled it
- Work Disability among Employees with Diabetes: Latent Class Analysis of Risk Factors in Three Prospective Cohort Studies.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
- Job strain as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes: a pooled analysis of 124,808 men and women.Diabetes care · 2014Pooled it
- Job strain and health-related lifestyle: findings from an individual-participant meta-analysis of 118,000 working adults.American journal of public health · 2013Pooled it
- Associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with risk of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2013Pooled it
- Work stress and risk of cancer: meta-analysis of 5700 incident cancer events in 116,000 European men and women.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013Pooled it
- Job strain and cardiovascular disease risk factors: meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 47,000 men and women.PloS one · 2013Pooled it
- Associations between domain-specific physical activity, sedentary behavior, and binge drinking among adults in the United States and China: evidence from a cross-sectional study, daily tracking, and randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Efficacy of a web-based intervention with and without guidance for employees with risky drinking: results of a three-arm randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Trial
- Job strain, social support, and alcohol-related health problems: A register-based cohort study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Work Hard… Drink Hard? Occupational, Sociodemographic and Health Determinants of High-Risk Alcohol Consumption Among Australian Workers.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- Work demands, self-care, and mental health in lawyers.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
- Work- and family-related stressors and risk of hazardous alcohol use: the role of social support. A cohort study in Sweden.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Associations between occupational stress, work-family imbalance, and harmful alcohol consumption among workers: A longitudinal study.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
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-related stress (operationalised as self-reported job strain) and alcohol intake. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL
findingsWe analysed cross-sectional data from 12 European studies (n = 142 140) and longitudinal data from four studies (n = 48 646). Job strain and alcohol intake were self-reported. Job strain was analysed as a binary variable (strain vs. no strain). Alcohol intake was harmonised into the following categories: none, moderate (women: 1-14, men: 1-21 drinks/week), intermediate (women: 15-20, men: 22-27 drinks/week) and heavy (women: >20, men: >27 drinks/week). Cross-sectional associations were modelled using logistic regression and the results pooled in random effects meta-analyses. Longitudinal associations were examined using mixed effects logistic and modified Poisson regression. Compared to moderate drinkers, non-drinkers and (random effects odds ratio (OR): 1.10, 95% CI: 1.05, 1.14) and heavy drinkers (OR: 1.12, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.26) had higher odds of job strain. Intermediate drinkers, on the other hand, had lower odds of job strain (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.86, 0.99). We found no clear evidence for longitudinal associations between job strain and alcohol intake.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that compared to moderate drinkers, non-drinkers and heavy drinkers are more likely and intermediate drinkers less likely to report work-related stress.
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