The Beneficial Role of Participation in Decision-Making on Workers' Health and Commitment: A Cross-Sectional Study in Belgium's Health and Homecare Sector.

Objectives: To test the hypothesis of a beneficial role of worker participation in the decision-making process as a buffer against demanding work organisation on mental and physical health and commitment.

Methods: A cross-sectional study (N = 1134) was conducted among workers employed in the health and homecare sector. Multiple regressions and moderation analyses were performed to test whether worker participation in decision-making moderates the association between demanding work organisation and health and whether it directly predicts work commitment.

How local stakeholders' social representations shape the future of ageing in place: Insights from 'health and care social innovations' in Wallonia (Belgium).

This research attempts to study the social representations underlying health and care social innovations (HCSI) implemented in Wallonia, Belgium to shift ageing policies and management towards the ageing in place paradigm. A panel of 34 experts was interviewed to understand their representations using a Delphi-based methodology. The data were processed using thematic content analysis.

"Squeezed like a lemon": A participatory approach on the effects of innovation on the well-being of homecare workers in Belgium.

Innovative programs that emerge in response to the rapidly changing care needs of older adults provide an opportunity to study the transformations in working and employment conditions within the homecare sector. This study seeks to understand how innovations introduced in the homecare sector have affected the well-being of homecare workers providing non-medical domestic support to older adults who wish to age in place. Our study is based on a participatory approach involving homecare workers exposed to two innovations in Wallonia (Belgium) that relate to flexible working hours, worker training, and technological equipment.

Two Preregistered Direct Replications of "Objects Don't Object: Evidence That Self-Objectification Disrupts Women's Social Activism".

Self-objectification has been claimed to induce numerous detrimental consequences for women at the individual level (e.g., sexual dysfunction, depression, eating disorders).

Professional Recognition at Work: The Protective Role of Esteem, Respect, and Care for Burnout Among Employees.

Objective: The present research systematically investigates the role of recognition experiences at work as a protective factor for burnout.

Method: In two cross-sectional studies (N = 328 and N = 220) with employees we measured via online questionnaires three forms of recognition (achievement-based social esteem, equality-based respect, and need-based care) from coworkers and supervisors as predictors and burnout among employees as outcome.

Results: Using multiple regression analyses, Study 1 provided initial evidence that both supervisor and coworker recognition were negatively associated with employees' burnout.

Long working hours and change in body weight: analysis of individual-participant data from 19 cohort studies.

Objective: To examine the relation between long working hours and change in body mass index (BMI).

Methods: We performed random effects meta-analyses using individual-participant data from 19 cohort studies from Europe, US and Australia (n = 122,078), with a mean of 4.4-year follow-up.

Do psychosocial job resources buffer the relation between physical work demands and coronary heart disease? A prospective study among men.

Purpose: Increasing evidence shows the detrimental impact of high physical work demands for cardiovascular health and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the buffering effects of social support at work and job control in the relation between physical work demands and incidence of coronary events.

Methods: The study included 14,337 middle-aged men free from coronary heart disease (CHD) at baseline.

The indirect association of job strain with long-term sickness absence through bullying: a mediation analysis using structural equation modeling.

Background: In this longitudinal study the complex interplay between both job strain and bullying in relation to sickness absence was investigated. Following the "work environment hypothesis", which establishes several work characteristics as antecedents of bullying, we assumed that job strain, conceptualized by the Job-Demand-Control model, has an indirect relation with long-term sickness absence through bullying.

Methods: The sample consisted of 2983 Belgian workers, aged 30 to 55 years, who participated in the Belstress III study.

Association between psychosocial characteristics of work and presenteeism: A cross-sectional study.

Objectives: This study aimed at investigating cross-sectional relationships between psychosocial characteristics of work and presenteeism in a sample of Belgian middle-aged workers.

Material And Methods: Data were collected from 1372 male and 1611 female workers in the Belstress III study. Psychosocial characteristics assessed by the use of self-administered questionnaires were: job demands, job control, social support, efforts, rewards, bullying, home-to-work conflict and work-to-home conflict.

Health Behaviours As a Mechanism in the Prospective Relation between Workplace Reciprocity and Absenteeism: A Bridge too Far ?

Background: The persistent lack of evidence on causal mechanisms between social capital and health threatens the credibility of the social capital-health association. The present study aims to address this ongoing problem by investigating whether health behaviours (i.e.

Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603,838 individuals.

Background: Long working hours might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, but prospective evidence is scarce, imprecise, and mostly limited to coronary heart disease. We aimed to assess long working hours as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease and stroke.

Methods: We identified published studies through a systematic review of PubMed and Embase from inception to Aug 20, 2014.

[Proposal of a conceptual method of supportive care for co-active patients].

There is a broad consensus on the importance for health professionals to support co-active patients. However, in practice, very few "patient care partnership" approaches have been developed. We hypothesized that the lack of investment in supporting patient care partnerships is due to the lack of interest in the skills needed by caregivers to provide such support.

Long working hours and alcohol use: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data.

Objective: To quantify the association between long working hours and alcohol use.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data.

Data Sources: A systematic search of PubMed and Embase databases in April 2014 for published studies, supplemented with manual searches.

Job-related stress and sickness absence among belgian nurses: a prospective study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of job stress on sickness absence of nurses and determine the predictive power of the Demand-Control-Support (DCS) model, the Effort-Reward Imbalance-Overcommitment (ERI-OC) model, and a combination of both.

Design: A survey was conducted to measure job stress in a sample of 527 Belgian nurses, followed by prospective data collection of sickness absence (long-term, short-term, and multiple episodes).

Findings: Perceptions of job strain and ERI increased the odds for long-term (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 2.

The relation between psychosocial risk factors and cause-specific long-term sickness absence.

Background: The aim was to study the impact of psychosocial risk factors on long-term sickness absence due to mental health problems (LSA-MH) or musculoskeletal disorders (LSA-MSD) in 2983 Belgian middle-aged workers.

Methods: Data were collected from 1372 male and 1611 female workers in the Belstress III study. Considered psychosocial risk factors were job demands, job control, social support, job strain, efforts, rewards, effort-reward imbalance and bullying.

Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: To determine the association between self reported job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease.

Design: A meta-analysis combining individual level data from a collaborative consortium and published studies identified by a systematic review.

Data Sources: We obtained individual level data from 13 cohort studies participating in the Individual-Participant-Data Meta-analysis in Working Populations Consortium.

Job strain and cardiovascular disease risk factors: meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 47,000 men and women.

Background: Job strain is associated with an increased coronary heart disease risk, but few large-scale studies have examined the relationship of this psychosocial characteristic with the biological risk factors that potentially mediate the job strain - heart disease association.

Methodology And Principal Findings: We pooled cross-sectional, individual-level data from eight studies comprising 47,045 participants to investigate the association between job strain and the following cardiovascular disease risk factors: diabetes, blood pressure, pulse pressure, lipid fractions, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, obesity, and overall cardiovascular disease risk as indexed by the Framingham Risk Score. In age-, sex-, and socioeconomic status-adjusted analyses, compared to those without job strain, people with job strain were more likely to have diabetes (odds ratio 1.

Reciprocity and depressive symptoms in Belgian workers: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis.

Objective: This study examines the multidimensional association between reciprocity at work and depressive symptoms.

Methods: Data from the Belgian BELSTRESS survey (32 companies; N = 24,402) were analyzed. Multilevel statistical procedures were used to account for company-level associations while controlling for individual-level associations.

Job strain and health-related lifestyle: findings from an individual-participant meta-analysis of 118,000 working adults.

Objectives: We examined the associations of job strain, an indicator of work-related stress, with overall unhealthy and healthy lifestyles.

Methods: We conducted a meta-analysis of individual-level data from 11 European studies (cross-sectional data: n = 118,701; longitudinal data: n = 43,971). We analyzed job strain as a set of binary (job strain vs no job strain) and categorical (high job strain, active job, passive job, and low job strain) variables.

Associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with risk of coronary artery disease: a meta-analysis of individual participant data.

Background: It is unclear whether a healthy lifestyle mitigates the adverse effects of job strain on coronary artery disease. We examined the associations of job strain and lifestyle risk factors with the risk of coronary artery disease.

Methods: We pooled individual-level data from 7 cohort studies comprising 102 128 men and women who were free of existing coronary artery disease at baseline (1985-2000).

The association between leisure time physical activity and coronary heart disease among men with different physical work demands: a prospective cohort study.

The interplay of occupational and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in affecting cardiovascular health is subject to debate. This study aimed to examine the independent and interacting associations of leisure time and occupational physical activity (OPA) with the incidence of coronary events within the BELSTRESS cohort. The study included 14,337 middle-aged men free from coronary heart disease at baseline.

Gender difference in sickness absence from work: a multiple mediation analysis of psychosocial factors.

Background: Previous research has shown that job characteristics, private life and psychosocial factors partially account for gender difference in work absences because of sickness. Most studies have analysed these factors separately. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether these explanatory factors act as mediators when they are considered simultaneously.