ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2014
Asthma related to workplace dampness and impaired work ability.
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- Adverse occupational outcome among workers with occupational asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis of influencing factors.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Pooled it
- Screening tools for work-related asthma and their diagnostic accuracy: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- The Combined Effect of Poor Perceived Indoor Environmental Quality and Psychosocial Stressors on Long-Term Sickness Absence in the Workplace: A Follow-Up Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Huang Qin Hua Shi decoction for high-temperature- and high-humidity-induced cognitive-behavioral disorder in rats is associated with deactivation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.The Journal of international medical research · 2019Article
- Clinical Characteristics of Disability in Patients with Indoor Air-Related Environmental Intolerance.Safety and health at work · 2019Article
- Indoor mould exposure, asthma and rhinitis: findings from systematic reviews and recent longitudinal studies.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018Review
- An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report: Presentations and Discussion of the Sixth Jack Pepys Workshop on Asthma in the Workplace.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2017Article
- Proteomic changes of alveolar lining fluid in illnesses associated with exposure to inhaled non-infectious microbial particles.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeTo examine the long-term effects on work ability among patients previously diagnosed with occupational asthma (OA) or work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) or symptoms in relation to workplace dampness.
methodsA questionnaire follow-up was used to study 1,098 patients (of whom 87 % were female) examined because of a suspected occupational respiratory disease caused by building dampness and mold. Self-rated work ability and early withdrawal from work were the two outcomes of the study. As determinants, we investigated the influence of the asthma diagnosis given in the initial examinations (OA or WEA), the number of persistent indoor air symptoms, and the psychosocial factors at work.
resultsWith a mean follow-up of 7.8 years, 40 % of the OA patients, under 65 years of age, were outside worklife versus 23 % of the WEA patients and 15 % of the patients with only upper respiratory symptoms at baseline. The diagnosis of OA was associated with a nearly sixfold risk for early withdrawal from work in a comparison with a reference group with upper respiratory symptoms. A perceived poor social climate at work and poor experiences with supervisory co-operation were associated with impaired work ability outcomes. Those with multiple, long-term indoor air symptoms considerably more often perceived their work ability to be poor when compared with those with less significant symptoms.
conclusionsAdverse work ability outcomes are associated with asthma in relation to workplace dampness. The study raises the need for effective preventive measures in order to help workers with indoor air symptoms sustain their work ability.
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