BACKGROUND While back pain and stressful work environment are shown to be important causes of sickness absence the effect of psychosocial resources on sickness absence, and on self assessed work ability, is less commonly investigated. The aim of this study was to assess these associations in a two-year follow-up study. METHODS 341 working people aged 45 to 64, randomly drawn from the populati...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of a workplace intervention aimed at reducing adverse psychosocial work factors (psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, and effort-reward imbalance) and mental health problems among care providers. METHODS A quasi-experimental design with a control group was used. Pre-intervention (71% response rate), and one-year post-intervention mea...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The aim of this work was to introduce a new combined method of subjective and objective measures to assess psychosocial risk factors at work and improve workers' health and well-being. In the literature most of the research on work-related stress focuses on self-report measures and this work represents the first methodology capable of integrating different sources of da...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle variables may serve as important intermediate factors between psychosocial work environment and health outcomes. Previous studies, focussing on work stress models have shown mixed and weak results in relation to weight change. This study aims to investigate psychosocial factors outside the classical work stress models as potential predictors of change in body mass index (BM...

conclusions the duties of social workers have been defined in the three domains of psychosocial health, psychosocial treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation. results the findings of the research indicate that social work headquarters have had a weak performance in introducing social work as a specialized profession. their performance in establishing relationship with scientific centers has be...

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License. Workplaces are surrounded by a variety of hazards. Psychosocial factors in particular can become a significant hazard. As reported in the current issue1), long working hours are closely connected with health disorders2, 3). Some types of work schedules...

Much health care research involves measurement of biological function. This chapter is concerned with the assessment of biological function in psychosocial research on health. The psychosocial factors studied in health care research include features of the individual’s sociodemographic position (age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status etc.), aspects of social experience (such as social net...