Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota Bialowolski, Piotr
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Recognition for work-an act of conveying non-financial appreciation for an outstanding accomplishment or performance-is the top motivator of employee performance and important contributor to psychologically healthy work. Employee recognition programs are offered by many companies and have been shown to retain top talent, increase job satisfaction, ...
Poulsen, Per Hoegh Carstensen, Ole Kærgaard, Anette Vestergaard, Jesper Medom Nielsen, Kent J Biering, Karin
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This study investigates whether individuals who have sustained an electrical injury (EI) are diagnosed with unspecified pain or pain related to the musculoskeletal system in the years following the injury. Individuals listed in Danish registers as having sustained EIs were matched for sex, age, and year of injury in a cohort study with individuals ...
Lessons, Greg Richard Bhakta, Dee McCarthy, David
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This study describes the development of the world's first suite of firefighter body composition centile reference curves which can be used as both academic research tools and clinical references, to plot and track individual firefighter skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and fat mass (FM) measurements against the representative reference sample. The body c...
Nabe-Nielsen, Kirsten Christensen, Karl Bang Fuglsang, Nina Vibe Larsen, Inge Nilsson, Charlotte Juul
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We investigated schoolteachers' emotional reactions to COVID-19 and mental health during three phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. We further analyzed if teachers, who belonged to a COVID-19 risk group, had more emotional reactions and poorer mental health than "non-risk" groups. We collected questionnaire data in May, June, and November-December 2020...
Havlioglu, Suzan Tascanov, Mustafa Begenc Koyuncu, Ismail Temiz, Ebru
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Noise is one of the major environmental health problems and is defined as any unpleasant sound. It was shown that prolonged exposure to noise was associated with progress of diseases. There is no study evaluating the effect of noise on the oxidative parameters of Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC), Total Oxidant Status (TOS) and DNA damage. This stud...
Ropponen, Annina Narusyte, Jurgita Wang, Mo Kärkkäinen, Sanna Mather, Lisa Blom, Victoria Bergström, Gunnar Svedberg, Pia
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To investigate associations between social benefits and disability pension (DP), long-term sickness absence (LTSA, ≥ 90 days), or unemployment among Swedish twins with sickness absence (SA) due to mental diagnoses. This population-based prospective twin study included register data on first incident SA spell (
Bühne, David Alles, Torsten Hetzel, Christian Streibelt, Marco Froböse, Ingo
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The aim of this study was to identify patient-related characteristics that affect the predictive validity of the FCE assessment ELA. A prospective multicenter study was conducted on 303 patients with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) recruited from eleven rehabilitation centers. The ELA-based estimation of the participants' ability to cope with physi...
Løvvik, Camilla Øverland, Simon Nielsen, Morten Birkeland Jacobsen, Henrik Børsting Reme, Silje Endresen
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In this study, we examined exposure to workplace bullying as a predictor of registry-based benefit recipiency among workers struggling with work participation due to common mental disorders. Further, we examined if the experience of receiving social support moderated the association between workplace bullying and benefit recipiency. Secondary analy...
Aktas, Emine Bergbom, Barbara Godderis, Lode Kreshpaj, Bertina Marinov, Mario Mates, Dana McElvenny, Damien M Mehlum, Ingrid Sivesind Milenkova, Valentina Nena, Evangelia
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The aims of the study were: (1) to clarify the definitions of "migrant" used in occupational health research; (2) to summarize migrant workers' industry sectors, occupations and employment conditions; (3) to identify the occupational health and safety services available to migrant workers; (4) to summarize work-related health problems found among m...
Nishimura, Yuki Yamauchi, Takashi Sasaki, Takeshi Yoshikawa, Toru Takahashi, Masaya
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Although various work-related adverse events affect workers' mental health, the association between long working hours and mental disorders remains unclear. We investigated the characteristics of overtime work and work-related adverse events among all cases of compensated work-related suicide in Japan to empirically reveal the context of the seriou...