Symptoms of chronic solvent encephalopathy: Euroquest questionnaire study

Kaukiainen, Ari; Hyvärinen, Hanna Kaisa; Akila, Ritva; Sainio, Markku

doi:10.1016/j.neuro.2009.03.010

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“…in table 3? health (4 items), where participants are asked to rate different aspects of their general health and wellness as "Very good" "Good", "poor" or "Very poor". For the purpose of subsequent analyses we dichotomised symptoms, with "Strongly disagree" or "Disagree", "Seldom or Never" or "sometimes", and "poor" or "very poor" constituting a negative response and "Agree" or "Strongly agree", "Often" or "Very often", "very good" and "good" constituting a positive response [21]. Anxiety and perceived general health were included to enable us to control the analyses for individual personality traits which have been found to lead participants to under or over report their symptoms [21].…”

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“…≥5, ≥10, or ≥15. For symptoms clustered in specific domains (described above) we used a cut-point of ≥3 positive symptoms, which is an approach previously shown to be highly sensitive and specific in the classification of CSN patients [21].…”

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“…As the outcome in terms of cognitive disturbances was rare, it is important that the tool used to assess the outcome has sufficient specificity. As both sufficient specificity and sensitivity is reasonable to expect from the Euroquest questionnaire [20-22], the negative results are probably not a bias resulting from undifferential misclassification.…”

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Occurrence of Cognitive and Neurological Symptoms in Norwegian Dentists

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Svendsen

Syversen

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Safety and Health at Work

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ObjectivesPrevious investigations have presented some evidence of late cognitive effects in dental personnel exposed to metallic mercury. We wanted to examine if Norwegian dentists have an increased prevalence of symptoms consistent with neurological and/or cognitive malfunction.MethodsThe study group consisted of 406 dentists from central Norway and 217 controls from the general population, all under the age of 70. They had responded to a standardised postal questionnaire (Euroquest) inquiring about seven symptoms in regard to neurology, psychosomatics, memory, concentration, mood, sleep disturbances, and fatigue. A score was calculated for each symptom based on 4 to 15 single questions scored on a scale from 1 (seldom or never) to 4 (very often).ResultsThe dentists and controls had a participation rate of 57.2% and 42.9% respectively. The dentists reported no more cognitive symptoms than the controls, with low average symptom scores from 1.16 for neurological symptoms in males to 1.73 for fatigue in females. Corresponding figures for the controls were 1.22 and 1.77. There were a total of 1.2% of the dentists and 1.8% of the controls who reported having three or more of the seven symptoms "often" or more frequently.ConclusionNorwegian dentists do not report more cognitive and neurological symptoms than controls from the general population.

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“…Also, establishing the connection to work can be difficult, and might need to involve serial tests of lung function during a working week and during times away from work, as well as challenge tests. Some of the musculoskeletal disorders, such as those associated with upper limb pain [13,14], and chronic neuropsychiatric disorders associated with solvent exposure [15,16], are examples of disorders where establishing the diagnosis can be even more problematic. In many cases, there is lack of agreement as to what constitutes the disorder and on what basis it should be diagnosed.…”

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Developing a List of Compensable Occupational Diseases: Principles and Issues

Driscoll¹,

Wagstaffe²,

Pearce³

2011

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Abstract:Background: A number of countries have a list of occupational disorders for use in workers' compensation processes and decisions. These lists have two potential uses -to formally recognise that a disorder may be related to work (and so be potentially compensable), or to formally identify disorders that are likely to be related to work and so can be considered to have arisen from work if sufficient relevant exposure can be confirmed. However, many of these lists have shortcomings.Objectives: The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the concepts and approaches that should be taken into account when developing a list of occupational disorders that can be accepted for fast tracking of the compensation claim. Results and Conclusions:A list of occupational disorders to be used as a schedule for compensation purposes is best based on a combination of specific disorder-exposure combinations, unless the number of potential exposures linked to a particular disorder, or the number of disorders linked to a particular exposure, make it impractical to list them all. For inclusion in a schedule it is desirable that there is strong evidence of causal link between the occupational exposure and the disorder; there are clear and repeatable criteria for diagnosing the disorder; and the disorder comprises a considerable proportion of the cases of that disorder in the overall population or an identifiable subset of the population.

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Symptoms of chronic solvent encephalopathy: Euroquest questionnaire study

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Solvent neurotoxicity in vehicle collision repair workers in New Zealand

Solvent neurotoxicity in vehicle collision repair workers in New Zealand

Occurrence of Cognitive and Neurological Symptoms in Norwegian Dentists

Developing a List of Compensable Occupational Diseases: Principles and Issues

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