ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2020
Commuting time to work and behaviour-related health: a fixed-effect analysis.
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- Brazilian adults in urban areas with longer commuting time to work had lower fruit consumption.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring Health Promotion Behaviors, Occupational Burnout, and Sleep Disturbances in Traditional Industry Workers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Association between commuting time and work-related low back pain with respect to sports and leisure activities in Korean workers.Industrial health · 2024Article
- Mediating Effect of Work-Family Conflict on the Relationship Between Long Commuting Time and Workers' Anxiety and Insomnia.Safety and health at work · 2023Article
- Evaluation of a Health Education Intervention to Improve Parental Knowledge and Attitudes About Chronic Stress and Depression Among Head Start Families.Health promotion practice · 2023Article
- Distance to sports facilities and low frequency of exercise and obesity: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Walking for transportation in large Latin American cities: walking-only trips and total walking events and their sociodemographic correlates.Transport reviews · 2022Article
- A three-wave longitudinal study on the relation between commuting strain and somatic symptoms in university students: exploring the role of learning-family conflicts.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- Home and Workplace Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Behavior-related Health: A Within-individual Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- The Effect of Commuting Time on Job Stress in Obese Men With Different Exercise Frequency in China.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesLong commuting times are linked to poor health outcomes, but the evidence is mainly cross-sectional. We examined longitudinal within-individual associations between commuting time and behaviour-related health.
methodsData were from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health study. We selected workers who responded to a minimum of two surveys conducted every other year between 2008 and 2018. We included all study waves with self-reported commuting time (ie, the exposure, 1-5, 6-10, 11-15 or ≥15 hours/week), body mass index (based on weight and height), physical (in)activity, smoking, alcohol use and sleep problems (ie, the outcomes) (N
resultsThose working >40 hours/week had higher odds of physical inactivity (OR 1.25, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.51) and sleep problems (OR 1.16, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.35) when they were commuting >5 hours/week than when they were commuting 1-5 hours/week. Among women working normal hours, longer commuting time associated with lower odds of problem drinking.
conclusionOur findings suggest that lengthy commuting time increases the risk of physical inactivity and sleep problems if individuals have longer than normal weekly working hours. Effects of work arrangements that decrease commuting time should be examined in relation to health behaviours.
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