OBJECTIVES To examine the relationships of strenuous and hazardous working conditions and rotating shifts that involve night working with life expectancy in good perceived health and life expectancy without chronic disease. METHODS The sample contained male gas and electricity workers from the French GAZEL cohort (n=13 393). Six measures of physical working conditions were examined: Self-repo...

OBJECTIVES As a result of gaps in middle-grade cover in the emergency department it became necessary for consultants to work some night shifts. This study aimed to examine the effect of this change in practice on performance. METHODS A prospective observational study was conducted. Staffing and workload variables were collected over a period of 6 months in a single district general emergency ...

OBJECTIVE The sparse knowledge of the aetiology of pelvic pain in pregnancy makes evidence based prevention a limited option. The aim of this study was to examine the relation between pelvic pain in pregnancy and physical and psychosocial working conditions. METHODS This study used self reported data on working conditions for 1219 cases and 1539 controls, sampled as a nested case-control stud...

BACKGROUND There is inconsistent evidence as to whether work schedule (including rotating shifts and night work) can affect reproductive outcomes. METHODS We investigated the association between work schedule and risk of spontaneous abortion in U.S. nurses. The Nurses' Health Study II is a prospective cohort study established in 1989. In 2001, information about occupational activities and exp...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The practice of Anesthesiology is exhausting and stressful. The present study evaluated the quality of life of anesthesiologists working in the city of Recife, correlating the profile of the quality of life with the degree of satisfaction with their health, number of working days and weekly shifts, gender, and age group. METHODS The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire was used...

The Contralateral Delayed Activity (CDA) is slow negative potential found during a variety of tasks, providing an important measure of the representation of information in visual working memory. However, it is studied using stimulus arrays in which the to-be-remembered objects are shown in the periphery of the left or the right visual field. Our goal was to determine whether fixational eye move...