ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2018
Physical work demands and psychosocial working conditions as predictors of musculoskeletal pain: a cohort study comparing self-reported and job exposure matrix measurements.
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- Workplace Psychosocial Factors and Their Association With Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies.Workplace health & safety · 2023Pooled it
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- Working Conditions, Musculoskeletal Pain and Wellbeing Among Hospital Surgeons: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Cohort Profile: the Work Environment and Health in Denmark study.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Development of a gender-specific European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for physical workload and its validation against musculoskeletal pain.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Occupational psychosocial stressors and ergonomic strain during pregnancy and sex-specific risk of childhood asthma.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2025Article
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- Musculoskeletal pain among medical residents: role of workplace safety climate and sexual harassment.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
- Psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence among younger employees in Denmark: a register-based cohort study using job exposure matrices.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- Physical Work Exposures of Older Workers: Does Measurement Make a Difference?Work, aging and retirement · 2023Article
- Assessment of the relationship between the return to work and the severity of work-related upper limb injuries using the whole person impairment.Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesDetermining exposure to occupational factors by workers' job titles is extensively used in epidemiological research. However, the correspondence of findings regarding associations to health between job exposure matrices (JEMs) and individual-level exposure data is largely unknown. We set out to examine the prospective associations of physical work demands and psychosocial working conditions with musculoskeletal pain, comparing JEMs with individual-level self-reported exposures.
methodsWe analysed data of 8132 participants from the Work Environment and Health in Denmark cohort study. Using random intercept multilevel modelling, we constructed age-specific and sex-specific JEMs estimating predicted exposures in job groups. We analysed associations between working conditions (individual and JEM level) at baseline and musculoskeletal pain at follow-up using multilevel modelling stratified by sex, adjusting for age, education and baseline pain.
resultsAny consistent associations present in the individual-level analysis were also found in the JEM-level analysis. Higher pain levels at follow-up was seen for employees with higher baseline physical work demands, women exposed to violence and men with lower decision authority, whether measured at the individual or JEM level. Higher JEM-level quantitative demands were associated with less pain, but no association was seen at the individual level.
conclusionsWe found predominately comparable prospective associations between working conditions and pain, whether using JEMs or individual level exposures, with the exception of quantitative demands. The results suggest that, with few notable exceptions, findings obtained using JEMs may be comparable with those obtained when using self-reported exposures.
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