User needs gathering for the design of information and communications technology-supported occupational stress management intervention: A quantitative study.

Introduction: The software industry is considered a growing industry with a high propensity to cause stress reactions among employees due to its demanding and technology-driven nature. There are convincing shreds of evidence that information and communications technology (ICT) interventions can effectively solve stress-related disorders. However, several identified constraints have hindered its potential benefits, such as poor adherence, lack of engagement, high attrition and lack of personalisation.

Emergency department nurses' experiences of occupational stress: A qualitative study from a public hospital in Bangkok, Thailand.

Background: Occupational stress has been a health-related issue among nurses for many decades. Emergency department nurses are frequently confronted with occupational stress in their workplace; in particular, they encounter stressful situations and unpredictable events. These encounters could make them feel more stressed than nurses in other departments.

Managing workplace health promotion in municipal organizations: The perspective of senior managers.

Background: Previous research indicates that companies manage workplace health in various ways, but more in-depth empirical knowledge of how workplace health promotion (WHP) is managed in public sector organizations is needed.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how WHP is managed and incorporated into the general management system in two large Swedish municipal organizations.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive approach was used.

The relationship of chronic and momentary work stress to cardiac reactivity in female managers: feasibility of a smart phone-assisted assessment system.

Objectives: To evaluate a wireless smart phone-assisted (SPA) system that assesses ongoing heart rate (HR) and HR-triggered participant reports of momentary stress when HR is elevated during daily life. This SPA system was used to determine the independent and interactive roles of chronic and momentary work stress on HR reactivity among female managers.

Methods: A sample of 40 female managers reported their chronic work stress and wore the SPA system during a regular workday.

Older people living at home: associations between falls and health complaints in men and women.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the associations between self-reported falls and health complaints, among persons aged 75 years and older living at home, and to investigate gender differences in the associations.

Background: There are several studies concerned with risk factors for falling, and others related to health complaints, but not many with associations between falls and health complaints. There are some inconsistent data of incidence and gender-related differences in falling.

"I just kept running and running until I hit the wall": working men seeking care due to stress-related problems.

Background: Stress problems are major public health problems.

Objective: To gain an increased understanding of how working men seeking care due to minor mental dysfunctions related to stress recognize their symptoms, what triggers them, and how this impacts their everyday life.

Participants: Fourteen men of working age, consecutively seeking care due to minor mental dysfunctions indicating stress problems, at two clinics in the Stockholm area in Sweden during 2009 and 2010.

Health, sleep, and professional career in female white-collar workers back to work after long-term sick-listing due to minor mental disorders.

Aims: This study is a 3-year follow up of female white-collar workers, who were on long-term sick leave in 2004 due to stress-related and minor mental disorders. The aim is to show what promotes return-to-work (RTW) and the impact of a long period of sickness absence on professional career.

Methods: The study includes a cohort of 233 women who were currently on medically certified sick leave lasting ≥90 days in 2004.

Assistant nurses working in care of older people: associations with sustainable work ability.

Indicators of health have shown improvements in the Swedish working population during the past decades, but with the exception of low-skilled women. Earlier research has shown that assistant nurses belong to an occupational group, which has the lowest share of individuals with long-term health in the total Swedish workforce. Sick leave research has mostly focused on determining risk factors for the development of diseases and dysfunctions.

Understanding long-term sick leave in female white-collar workers with burnout and stress-related diagnoses: a qualitative study.

Background: Sick leave rates in Sweden have been significant since the end of the 1990s. In this paper we focus on individual female white-collar workers and explore various factors and setting-based sources of ill health in working life and in private life, in order to understand impaired work ability, leading ultimately to long-term sick leave.

Methods: A qualitative methodology was chosen, and thematic, open-ended interviews were carried out with 16 women.

Understanding work ability: experiences of female assistant nurses in elderly care.

Few studies to date have investigated retained work ability. The aim of this explorative study was to describe female assistant nurses' experiences of high work attendance over the years The setting is a municipality in mid-Sweden that employs 466 female assistant nurses permanently within municipal elderly care. A qualitative methodology was chosen and thematic, open-ended, interviews were carried out with 12 female assistant nurses.

Job mismatching, unequal opportunities and long-term sickness absence in female white-collar workers in Sweden.

Aim: To investigate associations between long-term sick-listing and factors at work and in family life.

Methods: Associations were investigated in a cross-sectional case-referent study. The study base included women in white-collar jobs, aged 30-55 years, living in three urban areas in Sweden between February 2004 and October 2004.

Falls in somatic and dementia wards at Community Care Units.

Introduction: Falls and fall injuries are common problems for patients at nursing homes in Sweden. Impaired cognitive function, a poor sense of orientation and a high intake of medicine, can lead to an increase in falls among older people.

Aim: The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between falls and: fall risks, fractures, the use of physical restraints and the use of certain medications in somatic and dementia wards, respectively.

Falls and fall risk among nursing home residents.

Aim And Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for falls in older people living in nursing homes.

Background: Impaired cognitive function and a poor sense of orientation could lead to an increase in falls among those with impaired freedom of movement. Many accidents occur while an older person is walking or being moved.

Work and family: associations with long-term sick-listing in Swedish women - a case-control study.

Background: The number of Swedish women who are long-term sick-listed is high, and twice as high as for men. Also the periods of sickness absence have on average been longer for women than for men. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between factors in work- and family life and long-term sick-listing in Swedish women.

Musculoskeletal dysfunction in physical education teachers.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders, especially symptomatic osteoarthrosis (OA) of the knee and hip, health and lifestyle factors among physical education (PE) teachers, and whether they differed from the general population in these respects.

Methods: The study base was all Swedish men (n=290) and women (n=281) who graduated from the only training college for PE teachers in Sweden, between the years 1957 and 1965, and age matched referents, 255 men and 257 women, randomly selected from the Swedish population register. A postal questionnaire was sent to the subjects with questions on occupational history, participation in sports, musculoskeletal disorders, height, weight, smoking habits, and general health.

Primary osteoarthrosis of the knee in men and women as a result of lifelong physical load from work.

Objectives: This study investigated the effect of lifelong physical load from work on the development of knee osteoarthrosis (OA) leading to prosthetic surgery among men and women.

Methods: In a population-based case-referent study, men and women (N=625) who had had prosthetic surgery due to primary tibiofemoral OA were compared with referents (N=548) as to job titles and exposure to physical load in occupational work, housework, and leisure-time activities from 15 to 50 years of age.

Results: Male forestry and construction workers, and both male and female farmers ran the highest risk of knee OA.

Sports and risk for severe osteoarthrosis of the knee.

The relationship between sports activities and knee osteoarthrosis (OA) in the general population was investigated. Men (n=325) and women (n-=300) who underwent prosthetic surgery due to primary tibio-femoral OA were compared with referents (264 men and 284 women) regarding life-long sports exposure. The relative risk of severe knee OA among men aged between 55 and 65 years who were highly exposed to all kinds of sports was 2.

Physical work load in physical education teachers.

The main objective was to measure and quantify exposure to physical work load in physical education teachers. A further aim was to establish the reproducibility of a three-week test-retest interval of self-reported physical load and to evaluate the agreement between registered and self-rated physical load. Thirty teachers, both female and male, volunteered to participate in the study.

Osteoarthrosis of the knee in men and women in association with overweight, smoking, and hormone therapy.

Objectives: The aim was to examine the relation between osteoarthrosis of the knee leading to prosthetic surgery among men and women and overweight, smoking, and hormone therapy.

Methods: A case-referent study was performed with a study base of all men and women, born 1921-1938, living in 14 counties in Sweden during 1991-95. The cases (n = 625) were identified through the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register.

Validity of five common manual neck pain provoking tests.

The purpose of the present study was to assess five manual tests for pain provocation of the neck to determine their suitability for epidemiological investigations. To 75 randomly selected men, five manual pain-provoking tests were applied in a single-blind design. Prevalence of reported neck dysfunction, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predicted value for each test were calculated.

Musculoskeletal disorders in former athletes. A cohort study in 114 track and field champions.

We studied the influence of elite track and field activities on the musculoskeletal system in a cohort of 114 Swedish men 50-80 years of age compared to 355 randomly selected referents in the same age group. Arthrosis of the hip was increased more than threefold among the athletes (8 percent) compared to the referents (2 percent). For other musculoskeletal disorders the distribution was similar between the groups but the prevalence of arthrosis of the knee tended to increase while that of neck/shoulder disorders tended to decrease in the athlete group.

Measurement of pain among electricians with neck dysfunction.

The aim of the study was to develop a pain measurement instrument in Swedish intended for use in epidemiological surveys, and to report the pain assessments of individuals in a working population. The focus was on somato-sensory description in relation to work performance. The material comprised 22 randomly selected electricians attending health checkups, and reporting neck pain during the past week.