ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2015
Combined musculoskeletal pain in the upper and lower body: associations with occupational mechanical and psychosocial exposures.
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- Health Outcomes Related to Multiple Exposures in Occupational Settings: A Review.Safety and health at work · 2024Review
- Evaluation of the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire for Measuring Prevalence and the Consequence of Pain in a Danish Adult OI Population: A Pilot Study.Calcified tissue international · 2024Article
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- Sex and Gender Differences in Occupational Hazard Exposures: a Scoping Review of the Recent Literature.Current environmental health reports · 2021Article
- Factors associated with neck and shoulder pain: a cross-sectional study among 16,000 adults in five county councils in Sweden.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Do organisational and ward-level factors explain the variance in multi-site musculoskeletal pain in eldercare workers? A multi-level cross-sectional study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Article
- What Are the Key Workplace Influences on Pathways of Work Ability? A Six-Year Follow Up.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Longitudinal Associations between Anatomical Regions of Pain and Work Conditions: A Study from The SwePain Cohort.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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- Work characteristics predict the development of multi-site musculoskeletal pain.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposePain in more than one site is common in working populations. We aimed to characterise combined pain (pain in the upper and lower body) and to evaluate whether the prevalence of combined pain is positively related to combined occupational mechanical exposures to the upper and lower body and to high psychosocial job strain.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was based on questionnaire data from the Musculoskeletal Research Database at the Danish Ramazzini Centre. The study included 14,081 men and 20,173 women. Occupational exposures were assessed by job exposure matrices. We analysed the prevalence of pain limited to the upper body, pain limited to the lower body, and combined pain in relation to occupational exposures using Poisson regression.
resultsDuring the last year, 23.2 % of the men and 33.9 % of the women reported combined pain, which was characterised by somatisation, illness worrying, and low SF-36 scores. For men, the adjusted prevalence ratio for combined pain was 1.51 [95 % confidence interval (95 % CI) 1.40-1.64] in relation to exposures limited to the upper body and 2.24 (95 % CI 2.11-2.39) in relation to combined exposures. For women, the corresponding adjusted prevalence ratios were 1.56 (95 % CI 1.50-1.63) and 1.55 (95 % CI 1.50-1.61). High job strain was related to pain among men, only.
conclusionCombined pain may in part be explained by local effects of occupational mechanical exposures acting at more than one site.
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