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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jeannette Weber, Peter Angerer, Lorena Brenner, Jolanda Brezinski, Sophia Chrysanthou, Yesim Erim, Manuel Feisst, Marieke Hansmann, Sinja Hondong, Franziska Maria Kessemeier, Reinhold Kilian, Christina Klose, Volker Koellner, Fiona Kohl, Regina Krisam, Christoph Kroeger, Anja Sander, Ute Beate Schroeder, Ralf Stegmann, Uta Wegewitz, Harald Guendel, Eva Rothermund, Kristin Herrmann
Summary: This study aims to improve mental health of employees with common mental disorders through work-related psychotherapeutic consultation. If successfully implemented and evaluated, it might serve as a role model for the care of employees with common mental disorders in Germany.
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Psychiatry
Emma Bjorkenstam, Magnus Helgesson, Klas Gustafsson, Marianna Virtanen, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Summary: The study found that the sector of employment and occupational class have an impact on sickness absence (SA) due to common mental disorders (CMDs) in young employees. Public sector workers had a higher risk of SA due to CMDs compared to private sector employees. Additionally, manual workers had a slightly higher risk of SA due to CMDs compared to non-manual workers.
SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Caroline Ran, Kristina Alexanderson, Andrea C. Belin, Gino Almondo, Anna Steinberg, Christina Sjoestrand
Summary: This study aimed to explore the occurrence of diagnosis-specific multimorbidity among patients with cluster headache (CH) and its association with sickness absence and disability pension. The study found that the proportion of multimorbidity was higher among CH patients compared to matched references, and multimorbidity was associated with higher days of sickness absence and disability pension.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jaana I. Halonen, Tea Lallukka, Tero Kujanpaeae, Jouni Lahti, Noora Kanerva, Olli Pietilainen, Ossi Rahkonen, Eero Lahelma, Minna Manty
Summary: The study found that employees with CMD had a stronger association with sickness absence, especially when combined with physical work exposures. Workers with hazardous exposures and heavy physical workloads showed higher risk of sickness absence when also suffering from CMD.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Luise Moelenberg Begtrup, Per Malmros, Charlotte Brauer, Sandra Soegaard Toettenborg, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Paula Edeusa Cristina Hammer, Jens Peter Bonde
Summary: The study aimed to test if an educational intervention targeting managers could reduce absence among pregnant employees, but the results showed that it did not have a significant impact on pregnancy-related absence.
OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Masayoshi Mishima, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Chieko Mishima
Summary: Intensive monitoring is suggested within the first 18 months after employees return to work following common mental disorders.
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christina Andersson, Annika Jakobsson, Gunilla Priebe, Mikael Elf, Robin Fornazar, Gunnel Hensing
Summary: This study investigated the prerequisites for support, knowledge, and information related to decision making in individuals on sickness absence due to common mental disorders. The findings revealed challenges in decision making processes, such as ambiguous roles, uncertain knowledge base, and perceived barriers and enablers. The study suggests the need for a complex perspective, collaboration, and shared decision making in addressing sickness absence and rehabilitation processes.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Pi Fagerlund, Rahman Shiri, Johanna Suur-Uski, Sara Kaartinen, Ossi Rahkonen, Tea Lallukka
Summary: The study examined the association of chronic pain, multisite pain, and mental health with sickness absence among younger employees. The results showed that chronic multisite pain was associated with long-term sickness absence, particularly among employees with poorer mental health. There was a synergistic interaction between gender and multisite pain for total sickness absence days, with stronger associations among women.
ARCHIVES OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Oren Zack, Irena Golob, Gabriel Chodick, Idan Perluk, Rachel Raanan, Shlomo Moshe
Summary: This study investigated the scope of absenteeism related to diabetes and found that diabetic patients had significantly more days of absence compared to non-diabetic patients. The main factors affecting absenteeism were sociodemographic rather than medical, such as education level, workload, and type of employer. The study suggests that well-controlled diabetic employees can work in most occupations without fear of increased absenteeism.
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Economics
Nina Drange, Trude Gunnes, Kjetil Telle
Summary: In Norwegian child care centers, having more educated teachers per child is associated with lower sickness absence, while having more assistants with low or no higher education per child is associated with higher sickness absence. This suggests that staff composition, rather than workload, may be driving the observed variation in sickness absence at the center level.
EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sannie Vester Thorsen, Mari-Ann Flyvholm, Jacob Pedersen, Ute Bultmann, Lars L. Andersen, Jakob Bue Bjorner
Summary: The study found that physical work environment factors had stronger associations with sickness absence when excluding short-term (1-5 days) episodes and focusing on episodes of 6 days or longer. Psychosocial work environment factors were consistently and significantly associated with sickness absence regardless of the inclusion of short-term episodes in the analysis.
OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christian Hakulinen, Petri Bockerman, Laura Pulkki-Raback, Marianna Virtanen, Marko Elovainio
Summary: Sickness absence due to major depressive disorder (MDD) was associated with increased probability of non-employment during and after the first sickness absence period. Men had lower probability of being employed 5 years before the sickness absence period due to MDD, while women did not exhibit this trend. Compared to the control group, men experienced around 34% and women 15% lower earnings 1 year after the first sickness absence period due to MDD, and around 40% and 23% lower earnings, respectively, 5 years after. More severe MDD and longer sickness absence durations were linked to lower probability of being employed.
OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Camilla Lovvik, Simon overland, Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Henrik Borsting Jacobsen, Silje Endresen Reme
Summary: Workplace bullying is significantly associated with increased risk of benefit recipiency among workers struggling with common mental disorders, and social support does not moderate this association. This suggests that bullying is a significant obstacle to work participation.
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Rehabilitation
Lisa Holmlund, Lars Sandman, Therese Hellman, Lydia Kwak, Elisabeth Bjork Bramberg
Summary: This study aims to identify the ethical issues that arise in the coordination of return-to-work among employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders (CMDs), and five themes related to autonomy, privacy, resources and organization, and professional values were identified. The main ethical issues identified include the risks of unequal access to and unequal support for the coordination of return-to-work.
DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Johanna Suur-Uski, Olli Pietilainen, Aino Salonsalmi, Johanna Pekkala, Pi Fagerlund, Ossi Rahkonen, Tea Lallukka
Summary: This study examined the trajectories of long-term sickness absence (SA) in older workers' careers and identified modifiable factors associated with SA development. The results showed that lower occupational class, smoking, overweight or obesity, low leisure-time physical activity, and sleep problems were associated with a higher likelihood of belonging to the trajectory with a high rate of SA.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Christian Rausch, Sander K. R. van Zon, Yajun Liang, Lucie Laflamme, Jette Moller, Sophia E. de Rooij, Ute Bultmann
Summary: Geriatric syndromes are associated with incident chronic health conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, among older community-dwellers. Increased awareness and comprehensive assessments of geriatric syndromes are needed to prevent or delay the development of chronic health conditions in older individuals.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
(2022)
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Clinical Neurology
Fabio Porru, Merel Schuring, Ute Bultmann, Igor Portoghese, Alex Burdorf, Suzan J. W. Robroek
Summary: The study reveals that student life challenges are closely associated with mental health and self-rated health among university students, especially high workload, faculty shortcomings, and unsupportive climate have a significant impact on health.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Md Omar Faruque, Elisabeth Framke, Jeppe Karl Sorensen, Ida Elisabeth Huitfeldt Madsen, Reiner Rugulies, Judith M. Vonk, H. Marike Boezen, Ute Bultmann
Summary: This study investigated the association between psychosocial work factors and blood pressure in a large general working population in the Netherlands. The results showed that high job strain and effort-reward imbalance were associated with higher blood pressure, while emotional demands were associated with lower blood pressure.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2022)
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Psychiatry
Karin Veldman, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Johan Hviid Andersen, Trine Nohr Winding, Merete Labriola, Thomas Lund, Ute Bultmann
Summary: This study found that the timing and duration of depressive symptoms in adolescence are associated with NEET in young adulthood, with a double burden for those with both depressive symptoms and low educational attainment. Educational attainment did not mediate or moderate the association between depressive symptoms and NEET.
SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Rehabilitation
Alexandra Sikora, Gundolf Schneider, Uta Wegewitz, Ute Bueltmann
Summary: This study investigated the time to first and full return to work (RTW) and associated factors among employees receiving inpatient treatment for common mental disorders (CMDs) in Germany. Results showed that participants from medical rehabilitation had shorter RTW times compared to those from psychiatric treatment. Health and personal factors affected time to first RTW, while leadership quality and individual RTW support were associated with time to full RTW.
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Liza A. Hoveling, Aart C. Liefbroer, Ute Bultmann, Nynke Smidt
Summary: Socioeconomic position has an impact on the development of metabolic syndrome, but the mediating role of chronic stress from long-term difficulties in this association has not been assessed. This study found that education and occupational prestige were inversely associated with the development of metabolic syndrome. Chronic stress suppressed the association between education and occupational prestige with metabolic syndrome development, and there was no effect modification by sex on the relationship between chronic stress and metabolic syndrome development.
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Arnold G. Schriemer, Corne A. M. Roelen, Femke Abma, Willem van Rhenen, Jac J. L. van der Klink, Ute Bueltmann
Summary: This study examined the association between hearing loss and sustainable employability of teachers. Results showed that teachers with insufficient and poor hearing had lower CSWQ-scores compared with good hearing teachers. Adjustments for covariates, particularly self-rated health, attenuated the associations. Teachers with poor hearing reported more discrepancies in using their knowledge and skills and setting their own goals at work compared to good hearing teachers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Manon M. T. Schallig, Ute Bultmann, Adelita Ranchor, Sander K. R. van Zon
Summary: This study examined the longitudinal associations of supervisor and colleague social support with work functioning in cancer patients who have returned to work. The results showed that supervisor social support is associated with better work functioning regardless of social support at home, while colleague social support is only associated with better work functioning when cancer patients experience enough social support at home.
JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Johanna K. Ehrenstein, Sander K. R. van Zon, Saskia F. A. Duijts, Roy E. Stewart, Josue Almansa, Benjamin C. Amick, Sanne B. Schagen, Ute Bultmann
Summary: This study examined cognitive symptom trajectories and associated factors in working cancer survivors. Four trajectories of memory and executive function symptoms were identified, representing different severity levels. Factors such as age, time from diagnosis to return to work, work demands, and depressive symptoms were associated with higher symptom trajectories.
JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Amber D. Zegers, Pieter Coenen, Ute Bultmann, Ragna van Hummel, Allard J. van der Beek, Saskia F. A. Duijts
Summary: This study explored the application of the stages of change framework in work participation support for cancer survivors and provided recommendations for stage-specific intervention content. The results suggest that tailoring intervention support based on the stage of change that cancer survivors are in may be effective.
JOURNAL OF CANCER SURVIVORSHIP
(2023)
Article
Rehabilitation
Andrea Marie Jones, Mieke Koehoorn, Ute BultmanN, Christopher B. McLeod
Summary: The study found that workers with pre-existing anxiety and depression disorders have lower probability of returning to work, especially when both disorders coexist. Women are more affected, with not only lower probability of returning to work, but also higher probability of recurrence.
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Rianne J. van Diepen, Carel-Peter L. van Erpecum, Demi Tabak, Sander K. R. van Zon, Ute Bultmann, Nynke Smidt
Summary: The goal of this study was to examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) and BMI, and the potential moderating effects of fast-food outlets and pay-for-use physical activity facilities. The results showed that individuals living in low NSES areas had higher BMI, independent of individual socioeconomic status. While there were significant interactions between NSES, fast-food outlets, and physical activity facilities, the moderation effects were not consistent. Future research should focus on identifying environmental factors that can alleviate NSES disparities in BMI.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Samira de Groot, Karin Veldman, Benjamin C. Amick, Ute Bueltmann
Summary: This study investigates the effects of single and cumulative exposure to adverse psychosocial work conditions on young adults' mental health. The findings suggest that single exposure to high work demands and high-strain jobs at age 22 significantly contribute to internalizing problems at age 29; the association remains significant even after controlling for early life internalizing problems. However, no associations were found between cumulative exposures and internalizing problems, as well as between single or cumulative exposures to psychosocial work conditions and externalizing problems at age 29.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tjeerd Rudmer de Vries, Iris Arends, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Ute Bultmann
Summary: This study examined the differences in exposure to 14 adverse experiences among young adults aged 22 characterized by distinct labor market participation states and employment conditions, and found that inactive individuals were more likely to be exposed to various adverse experiences, while early workers were more likely to experience parental divorce.
JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Carel-Peter L. van Erpecum, Sander K. R. van Zon, Tian Xie, Harold Snieder, Ute Bultmann, Nynke Smidt
Summary: This study investigated the associations between exposure to fast-food outlets and BMI and BMI change. The results showed that participants who lived within 1 km of ≥1 fast-food outlet had higher BMI, and those who lived within 1 km of ≥2 fast-food outlets had greater increases in BMI. The effects were largest among young adults, especially those with medium or high genetic predisposition.