ArticleAmerican journal of public health1997
Employment, job strain, and preterm delivery among women in North Carolina.
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- Racial disparities in preterm birth in USA: a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures.Archives of disease in childhood · 2019Article
- Maternal interpregnancy weight change and premature birth: Findings from an English population-based cohort study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Prevalence and Determinants of Preterm Birth in Tehran, Iran: A Comparison between Logistic Regression and Decision Tree Methods.Osong public health and research perspectives · 2017Article
- Role of maternal occupational physical activity and psychosocial stressors on adverse birth outcomes.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2017Article
- Recurrence of Preterm Birth and Early Term Birth.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2016Article
- The Relation of Neighborhood Income to the Age-Related Patterns of Preterm Birth Among White and African-American Women: The Effect of Cigarette Smoking.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Longitudinal Assessment of Effort-Reward Imbalance and Job Strain Across Pregnancy: A Preliminary Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Data linkage between the National Birth Defects Prevention Study and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) to assess workplace physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and emotional stressors during pregnancy.American journal of industrial medicine · 2016Article
- Effectiveness of Home Visits in Pregnancy as a Public Health Measure to Improve Birth Outcomes.PloS one · 2015Article
- Construction of early and midlife work trajectories in women and their association with birth weight.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- A case-control study on risk factors for preterm deliveries in a secondary care hospital, southern India.ISRN obstetrics and gynecology · 2014Article
- Prevalence of exposure to occupational risks during pregnancy in Spain.International journal of public health · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectivesA population-based case-control study was conducted in central North Carolina to assess the relationship between occupational stress and preterm delivery.
methodsFour hundred twenty-one women delivering infants before 37 weeks' gestation and 612 women delivering infants at term were interviewed a median of 6 months after delivery. Exposure information was collected for all jobs held for at least 1 month during pregnancy.
resultsWork in a "high strain" job (i.e., high demand and low control) was not associated with increased risk of preterm delivery compared with work in "low strain" jobs (all other combinations of job demand and control). Narrowing the exposure window to the third trimester did not modify the results. However, women who worked at a high-strain job full-time (odds ratio [OR] = 1.4, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.9, 2.0) or for 30 or more weeks (OR = 1.4, CI = 1.0, 2.2) had a modestly increased risk. Several analyses suggested that Black women were at greater risk from job strain than White women.
conclusionsThis study suggests that chronic exposure during pregnancy to work characterized by high demand and low control may be modestly associated with preterm delivery.
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