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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Workplace Sexual Harassment and the Risk of Chronic Disease in a Prospective Cohort Study.

Sally Freels, Tracy W Lin, Timothy P Johnson, Kathleen M Rospenda

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Sally FreelsDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3338-6248
Tracy W LinDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
Timothy P JohnsonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9745-9683
Kathleen M RospendaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6753-9874

Funding

Workplace Harassment, Macro-Level Stressors, Substance Use and Health Outcomes: A Long-Term Follow UpR01AA026868 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ROSPENDA, KATHLEEN M · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA026868NIAAA NIH HHS R01AA026868
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a sample of university employees, longitudinal data were examined to test a biopsychosocial model of whether exposure to workplace sexual harassment increases hazard for chronic disease, in the context of other known biological, psychological, and social risk factors for chronic disease. Proportional hazards multiple regression was used to predict incidence of first chronic disease across 23 years of follow-up based on experience of sexual harassment. Out of a sample of N = 525, 288 incident diagnoses were observed. Effects of harassment, drinking behavior, cigarette use, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and other work stressors were considered as either fixed at baseline or as time-dependent covariates in separate models, controlling for age and baseline occupational group, which were significantly associated with disease onset. Higher scores on reported workplace sexual harassment at baseline of the study were predictive of chronic disease incidence over the next 23 years (HR = 1.038 for each increase of one unit,

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chronic disease incidenceproportional hazards regressionsexual harassment

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PMID41750031
PMCPMC12937653

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