ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2014
The influence of perceived stress and musculoskeletal pain on work performance and work ability in Swedish health care workers.
Article in International archives of occupational and environmental health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 101 citations in OpenAlex.
- Low back pain prevalence and risk factors among health workers in Saudi Arabia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of occupational health · 2020Pooled it
- Longitudinal Effects of a sit-stand desk intervention - persistence, Fade-Out, and psychological momentum: a Randomized Controlled Trial.BMC psychology · 2022Trial
- Can a workplace dialogue impact the perceived influence of neck and/or backpain on everyday activities and performance at work? A secondary analysis from the randomized controlled trial WorkUp.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Trial
- Effectiveness of combined aerobic exercise and neck-specific exercise compared to neck-specific exercise alone on work ability in neck pain patients: a secondary analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Trial
- Long-term effects on function, health-related quality of life and work ability after structured physiotherapy including a workplace intervention. A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial (WorkUp) in primary care for patients with neck and/or back pain.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2020Trial
- "Blue flags", development of a short clinical questionnaire on work-related psychosocial risk factors - a validation study in primary care.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2017Trial
- Work demands and physical activity in hospital employees with different degrees of musculoskeletal pain: descriptive data from the STUNTH study, Norway.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Work Ability and Psychological Well-being of Indian Information Technology Employees: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and Moderating Role of Perceived Stress.Annals of neurosciences · 2025Article
- Stress, pain intensity, and work productivity in individuals with chronic pain: a cross-sectional observational study.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Impact of mental and physical workload on work function in office workers with musculoskeletal disorders.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Effect of Smartphone Use on Musculoskeletal Pain Among Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study.Sisli Etfal Hastanesi tip bulteni · 2025Article
- The Work Ability Index (WAI) in the Healthcare Sector: A Cross-Sectional/Retrospective Assessment of the Questionnaire.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Analysis of musculoskeletal pains and productivity impacts among hispanic construction workers.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Factors influencing healthcare workers' performance before and after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A bibliometric analysis with supplementary comparative analysis.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Article
- Acceptability of the eHealth Intervention Sustainable Worker Digital Support for Persons With Chronic Pain and Their Employers (SWEPPE): Questionnaire and Interview Study.JMIR human factors · 2023Article
- SOphrology Intervention to Improve WELL-Being in Hospital Staff (SO-WELL): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Perceived Stress Mediating the Association Between Mindfulness and Resilience Among Registered Nurses.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Work Interventions Within Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs (IPRP) - Frequency, Patient Characteristics, and Association with Self-Rated Work Ability.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Experiences of work-related stress among highly stressed municipal employees in rural northern Sweden.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the influence of perceived stress and musculoskeletal ache/pain, separately and in combination, at baseline, on self-rated work ability and work performance at two-year follow-up.
methodsSurvey data were collected with a 2-year interval. Health care workers participating at both waves were included. Inclusion criteria were good self-reported work ability and unchanged self-rated work performance at baseline, resulting in 770 participants; 617 women and 153 men. Musculoskeletal pain was assessed using the question "How often do you experience pain in joints and muscles, including the neck and low back?", perceived stress with a modified version of a single item from the QPS-Nordic questionnaire, work performance by the question "Have your work performance changed during the preceding 12 months?" and work ability by a single item from the work ability index. Associations between baseline data and the two outcomes at follow-up were analysed by means of the log binomial model and expressed as risk ratios (RR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
resultsA combination of frequent musculoskeletal pain and perceived stress constituted the highest risk for reporting decreased work performance (RR 1.7; CI 1.28-2.32) and reduced work ability (RR 1.7; CI 1.27-2.30) at follow-up. Separately, frequent pain, but not stress, was clearly associated with both outcomes.
conclusionThe results imply that proactive workplace interventions in order to maintain high work performance and good work ability should include measures to promote musculoskeletal well-being for the employees and measures, both individual and organizational, to minimize the risk of persistent stress reactions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.