Publications by authors named "Ane Marie Thulstrup"
Problem: Pregnant employees may experience work-related challenges, including inadequate attention to their unique needs.
Background: Unmet needs for work adjustment are associated with sick leave and reduced well-being, and supportive environments are regarded as a protective factor against sick leave.
Aim: To evaluate the effect of midwifery support focusing on work adjustment on pregnant hospital employees' well-being defined by work ability and dimensions of the psychosocial work environment.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to assess whether midwifery support sessions for pregnant employees could reduce sick leave related to pregnancy and improve work conditions.* -
- A randomized controlled trial was conducted with hospital staff, comparing those who received midwifery support to those who followed standard procedures, measuring various sick leave outcomes.* -
- Results indicated no significant difference in sick leave between the two groups, suggesting that standard midwifery support may not be effective, and that more tailored support could yield better outcomes.*
Background: Risk assessment and work adjustment according to EU legislation may safeguard pregnant employees and their offspring. Knowledge on management perspectives in relation to implementation of protective measures is limited.
Objectives: The primary aim was to describe Danish hospital managers' engagement in pregnancy policy and work adjustment for pregnant employees.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess if, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers had increased severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection rates, following close contact with patients, co-workers and persons outside work with COVID-19.
Methods: A follow-up study of 5985 healthcare workers from Denmark was conducted between November 2020 and April 2021 and provided day-to-day information on COVID-19 contacts. SARS-CoV-2 infection was defined by the first positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test ever.
Introduction: Our aim was to study the association between pregnant women's referral status for occupational risk assessment, and their risk of preterm delivery (< 37 weeks), low birth weight (LBW) (< 2,500 g) and small for gestational age (SGA).
Methods: In a cohort study, 1,202 deliveries among pregnant women referred to two Danish clinics of occupational medicine (Copenhagen and Aarhus) from 1984 to 2010 were compared with the referred women's 1,077 non-referred pregnancy outcomes and with the pregnancy outcomes of 345,467 gainfully employed women from the same geographical areas and time period. Logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
Objective: This study aimed to investigate associations between work postures, lifting at work, shift work, work hours, and job strain and the risk of sick leave during pregnancy from 10-29 completed pregnancy weeks in a large cohort of Danish pregnant women.
Methods: Data from 51 874 pregnancies in the Danish National Birth Cohort collected between 1996-2002 were linked to the Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalization. Exposure information was based on telephone interviews.
Predictors of sickness absence in pregnancy: a Danish cohort study.
Scand J Work Environ Health
March 2015
Objective: The aim of this cohort study was to investigate associations between parity, pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI), assisted reproductive therapy (ART), time to pregnancy (TTP), and engagement in physical exercise and the risk of sickness absence in pregnancy from 10-29 completed pregnancy weeks.
Methods: Data from 51 874 pregnancies in the Danish National Birth Cohort collected from 1996 until 2002 were linked to the Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalization. Exposure information was based on questionnaires.
Aims: Nature-assisted therapy for mental health problems receives increased attention. However, quantitative evaluations are rare. This study evaluates the effects of an all-outdoors vocational rehabilitation program for individuals on long-term sick leave due to sustained stress-related symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExposure to psychosocial job strain during pregnancy and odds of asthma and atopic dermatitis among 7-year old children - a prospective cohort study.
Scand J Work Environ Health
November 2014
Objectives: Few epidemiological studies have studied maternal stress exposure during pregnancy and odds of asthma and atopic dermatitis (AD) among offspring, and none have extended the focus to psychosocial job strain. The aim of this study was to assess the association between maternal job strain during pregnancy and asthma as well as AD among 7-year-old children.
Methods: The study is based on the Danish National Birth Cohort and includes prospective data from 32 104 pregnancies.
Objectives: Epidemiological studies have raised concerns about the reproductive consequences of in utero exposure to alcohol. Maternal lifestyle factors have been associated with altered pubertal development, but the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on male puberty is unknown. Thus, the objective was to explore whether prenatal alcohol exposure alters pubertal development in boys.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: A number of studies examined the effects of prenatal stress on birth outcomes with diverging and inconclusive results. We aimed to examine if working with high job strain during pregnancy measured in week 16 was associated with risk of giving birth to a child born preterm or small/large for gestational age (SGA/LGA), and second, if social support affected any associations.
Design: Study population was 48 890 pregnancies from the Danish National Birth Cohort.
Article Synopsis
- * The research involved a large cohort of over 41,000 mothers and their children from Denmark, assessing maternal occupational exposure using job titles and a specific asthma exposure matrix.
- * Findings showed that while maternal postnatal exposure to certain low molecular weight agents was associated with a higher asthma risk in children, the impact of prenatal exposure was less significant, indicating the need for further investigation into the timing of such exposures.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze if notification of an occupational disease increases the risk of work disability.
Methods: We included 2304 patients examined at the Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, 1998-2005 and followed them for two years. A total of 564 patients were notified of an occupational disease when they were examined at baseline and 1740 patients were not.
Objectives: The prevalence of allergic diseases including hay fever has increased in the last decades, especially in Westernised countries. The aim of this study was to analyse whether occupational exposure during pregnancy is associated with development of hay fever in 7-year-old Danish children.
Methods: A total of 42,696 women and their children from the Danish National Birth Cohort were categorised according to maternal occupational exposure.
Early delivery and low birth weight are strong predictors of the urogenital anomalies cryptorchidism (undescended testis) and hypospadias. Understanding these associations may lead to important etiologic clues. Therefore, the authors revisited the prevailing hypotheses regarding fetal growth restriction as a risk factor for urogenital anomalies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Measures of prenatal environmental exposures are important, and amniotic fluid levels may directly reflect fetal exposures during hypothesized windows of vulnerability.
Objectives: We aimed to detect various phthalate metabolites and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in human amniotic fluid, to study temporal exposure trends, and to estimate potential associations with gestational week of amniocentesis and maternal age and parity at amniocentesis.
Methods: We studied 300 randomly selected second-trimester amniotic fluid samples from a Danish pregnancy-screening biobank covering 1980 through 1996.
Background: Androgens are crucial for normal testicular descent. Studies show that some pesticides have estrogenic or antiandrogenic effects, and that female workers exposed to pesticides have increased risk of having a boy with cryptorchidism. The main objective of the present study was to investigate whether pregnant women exposed to pesticides due to their work in horticulture experience excess risk of having sons with cryptorchidism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Early treatment for cryptorchidism may be necessary to preserve fertility. International guidelines now recommend that congenital cryptorchidism be treated with orchiopexy before age 1 year. Acquired cryptorchidism should be treated at presentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A high body mass index (BMI) has been associated with reduced semen quality and male subfecundity, but no studies following obese men losing weight have yet been published. We examined semen quality and reproductive hormones among morbidly obese men and studied if weight loss improved the reproductive indicators.
Methods: In this pilot cohort study, 43 men with BMI > 33 kg/m² were followed through a 14 week residential weight loss program.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to investigate the impact of maternal folic acid supplement intake during pregnancy on the semen quality of male offspring.
- Conducted in Denmark, the research followed 347 sons of mothers who were part of a specific cohort from 1984-87, collecting data through questionnaires about folic acid use.
- The results showed no significant differences in semen characteristics between sons of mothers who took folic acid and those who didn't, although higher levels of certain hormones (FSH and LH) were found in the supplement group, contradicting the initial hypothesis.