Work stress and health risk behavior

Siegrist, Johannes; Rödel, Andreas

doi:10.5271/sjweh.1052

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“…What appears problematic in this conception is the direct link between stress, the consequential neuro-regulatory dysfunction and health-damaging behaviours. In this sense, a recent meta-analysis did not find any (direct) significant association between stress and health risk behaviours (Siegrist and Roedel 2006). As we argue, it is indispensable to include non-damaging health behaviours as potentially adequate means of compensating for stress.…”

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Unemployment and its association with health-relevant actions: investigating the role of time perspective with German census data

Schunck

Rogge

2009

Int J Public Health

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Objective In this study, we seek to explain how unemployment is related to an increase in healthdamaging actions. A short time perspective, that is an orientation towards the present rather than the future, is hypothesised to account for this effect. The concept of time perspective is located within an action theoretical framework and the hypothesis is tested empirically. Methods We investigated the unemployed people's smoking behaviour and body-mass index (BMI) using German Microcensus data from 2003. Data from 77,766 respondents (88.60% employed and 11.40% unemployed) were analysed. Multivariate regression analysis was applied to test our hypotheses. Results Unemployment is associated with a 46% higher probability to smoke and with a 0.37 unit increase in BMI compared to employment. The likelihood of smoking steadily increases with the duration of unemployment, while only unemployment spells of 4 years and longer are significantly related to BMI. Yet, the smoking probability of those unemployed who have a long time perspective is 74% lower and their BMI is 1.81 lower than those who do not have a long time perspective. Conclusion Unemployment is negatively associated with health-relevant actions. This effect varies according to persons' time perspectives. Our approach delivers an innovative view on why unemployed individuals exercise more health-damaging actions than the employed.

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Unemployment and its association with health-relevant actions: investigating the role of time perspective with German census data

Schunck

Rogge

2009

Int J Public Health

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“…Reduced sleep duration associated with overtime supports the concept of the physiological recovery mechanism: that workers may have less time to recover resulting in suppressed NK cells (46). The results are also supported by the behavioral lifestyle mechanism: that overtime work increases body weight through physical inactivity and possibly a high intake of saturated fat and calories (46). Reduced job satisfaction may be directly related to overtime work.…”

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Association of overtime work with cellular immune markers among healthy daytime white-collar employees

Nakata¹,

Takahashi²,

Irie³

2011

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…Recently, also a low serum level of interleukin-17 was found to be associated with a higher risk of major cardiovascular events in CHD patients [43]. On the other hand, work stress can affect the cardiovascular system through significant changes in behavioral factors that matter for cardiovascular health, such as the increased amount of cigarette smoking or alcohol consumption, altered dietary habits or reduction of physical activity [44]. Moreover, disrupted sleep patterns and an increased prevalence of depression/anxiety induced by work stress and onset of a CHD event may matter as these latter conditions were shown to increase the risk of recurrent cardiac events [7,8,45,46].…”

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Work stress and the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease events: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Li¹,

Zhang²,

Loerbroks

et al. 2014

IJOMEH

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Though much evidence indicates that work stress increases the risk of incident of coronary heart disease (CHD), little is known about the role of work stress in the development of recurrent CHD events. The objective of this study was to review and synthesize the existing epidemiological evidence on whether work stress increases the risk of recurrent CHD events in patients with the first CHD. A systematic literature search in the PubMed database (January 1990 -December 2013 for prospective studies was performed. Inclusion criteria included: peer-reviewed English papers with original data, studies with substantial follow-up (> 3 years), end points defined as cardiac death or nonfatal myocardial infarction, as well as work stress assessed with reliable and valid instruments. Meta-analysis using random-effects modeling was conducted in order to synthesize the observed effects across the studies. Five papers derived from 4 prospective studies conducted in Sweden and Canada were included in this systematic review. The measurement of work stress was based on the DemandControl model (4 papers) or the Effort-Reward Imbalance model (1 paper). According to the estimation by meta-analysis based on 4 papers, a significant effect of work stress on the risk of recurrent CHD events (hazard ratio: 1.65, 95% confidence interval: 1.23-2.22) was observed. Our findings suggest that, in patients with the first CHD, work stress is associated with an increased relative risk of recurrent CHD events by 65%. Due to the limited literature, more well-designed prospective research is needed to examine this association, in particular, from other than western regions of the world. MATERIAL AND METHODSIn order to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies we applied internationally established guidelines [23,24]. We searched the PubMed database by applying the following inclusion criteria: -time of publication -January 1990 -December 2013, -study design -a prospective cohort study, -peer-reviewed English-language article with original data, -study subjects -patients with the 1st CHD, -work stress -assessed with reliable and valid instruments, -end points -cardiac death or nonfatal myocardial infarction, -follow-up duration -more than 3 years, -adjustment for relevant confounding factors -such as age, gender, behavior factors, clinical features of CHD, etc. We performed literature search using (combinations of) the following medical subject headings and key words: work stress, psychosocial work characteristics, job strain, effort reward imbalance, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, recurrent, patients, prognosis, death. Random-effects modeling was used to perform meta-analysis [25]. We distinguished different levels of work stress and set a group of subjects with a low work stress level as a reference group. Then hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) associated with a high work stress level from the selected studies were estimated. We used the Q-test for heterogeneity of the stu...

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Work stress and health risk behavior

Cited by 292 publications

References 71 publications

Unemployment and its association with health-relevant actions: investigating the role of time perspective with German census data

Unemployment and its association with health-relevant actions: investigating the role of time perspective with German census data

Association of overtime work with cellular immune markers among healthy daytime white-collar employees

Work stress and the risk of recurrent coronary heart disease events: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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