Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the association between night work and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among French workers. The association between cumulative duration of night work and HRQoL was also investigated.
Methods: Three career-long night work exposure groups were defined at inclusion in the CONSTANCES cohort: permanent night workers, rotating night workers and former night workers.
Occupational driving of light-duty vehicles (LDVs) became increasingly important in parcel delivery faced with the explosive growth of e-commerce. Since musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) represent the most reported driving-related health problem, we aimed to analyze the risk of low back pain (LBP) and upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders (UEMSDs) associated with driving LDVs for parcel delivery. In 306 postal workers exposed to driving and 100 unexposed workers, information on occupational driving, physical/psychosocial constraints, and work organization were collected via a questionnaire.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of co-exposures to physical and psychosocial factors (PSF) regarding the incidence of workplace injuries (WI) among care workers. Additional objective was to identify the work factors associated with the co-exposure combinations leading to the highest rates of WI.
Methods: The study sample consisted of 4,418 care workers participating to the French Working Conditions Survey both in 2013 and 2016.
Objective: To evaluate the existing evidence on the effect of night-shift work and its subtypes (permanent and rotating) on cardiovascular risk factors: diabetes, lipid disorders, being overweight, hypertension, smoking habits, sedentariness, and occupational psychosocial stressors.
Method: A Web of Sciences and Cochrane review library search was conducted to identify systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis dealing with the quantification of the link between night-shift work and the studied cardiovascular risk factors in working populations. We used the AMSTAR 2 to evaluate the quality of each review.
Objective: To analyze the interaction between physical and psychosocial work factors regarding the workplace injuries incidence among 6900 workers out of a longitudinal survey.
Methods: Based on responses to questionnaires, we obtained exposure groups respectively for physical factors and for psychosocial factors using hierarchical clustering. We performed multiple Poisson regression model with the workplace injuries incidence during 4 years of follow-up as the outcome and the clusters as the independent variables of interest.
Int Arch Occup Environ Health
May 2021
Purpose: This study aimed to test if work unit characteristics (WUCs) reported by call-center managers were directly related to the psychological distress reported by call-handlers or if these associations were mediated by the psychosocial working conditions (PWC).
Methods: Managers of 105 call-centers were interviewed about their call-center's WUCs by occupational physicians. 2719 female call-handlers from these call-centers completed self-reported questionnaires to evaluate PWC (Karasek, Siegrist, and other specific workplace stressors) and psychological distress (GHQ12 score).
Purpose: To determine the short-term, lagged, and cumulative effects of psychosocial factors (PSF) on the incidence of depression and anxiety.
Method: Major depressive disorders (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) were diagnosed in 2006 and 2010 using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview among 5684 workers from the French SIP cohort. The outcome considered here was diagnosis of MDD and/or GAD (MDD/GAD) in 2010.
Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of occupational safety and health (OSH) education during formal schooling on the incidence of workplace injuries (WIs) in young people starting their careers. We hypothesised that young people who had received OSH education during their schooling would have fewer WIs than those who received no OSH education. Secondary objectives focused on the effect of 'first aid at work' training during schooling and the conditions encountered on arrival in the company (occupational hazard information, safety training and job task training) on WI occurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our objective was to study the associations between organizational workplace characteristics (OC) reported by call-center (CC) managers and workplace stressors reported by call-handlers.
Methods: The managers of 107 CCs were interviewed by their occupational physicians using a questionnaire designed to specifically explore OC in the CCs. Four thousand two call-handlers from these CCs completed a self-report questionnaire including the Karasek and Siegrist work stressor questionnaires and two specific items on other workplace stressors.
The AVENIR study is a pharmaco-epidemiological study, lead in Lorraine region (France) between 1st January, 2005 and 31st December, 2006, which aim at: evaluating the quality of therapeutic practices, delivered by nephrologists, for chronic kidney disease patients during the year preceding dialysis onset, assessing the association between quality of predialysis therapeutic practices and survival and hospitalization during the first year of dialysis, and health-related quality of life at dialysis onset. Several data were collected for the AVENIR study: demographic, clinical, biological and therapeutic data before dialysis, morbidity and mortality during dialysis treatment. These data were used for secondary analyses investigating the decline in glomerular filtration rate over the year preceding dialysis, the management of hypertension and proteinuria before dialysis, and characteristics and outcomes of patients with delayed dialysis initiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The effect of antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplementation on health is one of the most controversial issues in human nutrition. Our objective was to investigate the effect of nutritional doses of a combination of antioxidant vitamins and minerals on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a sample of healthy French adults.
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Objectives: The study aimed to describe French off-label use of rFVIIa for intractable bleeding in major cardiovascular surgery.
Methods: Retrospective observational analysis of data from 2005 to October 2007 (no formal guidelines were available) was employed. The collect request form was elaborated by a multidisciplinary committee.
Background: To determine the impact of the quality of pre-dialysis nephrological care on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at dialysis onset, which has not been well evaluated.
Methods: All adults who began a dialysis treatment in the administrative region of Lorraine (France) in 2005 or 2006, were enrolled in this prospective observational study. HRQoL was measured using the Kidney Disease Quality of Life V36 questionnaire, which enables calculation of two generic (physical and mental) and three specific dimensions (Symptoms/problems, Effects and Burden of kidney disease).
Background: Some patients who reach end-stage renal disease refuse to start dialysis at the time suggested by their nephrologist and delay it. Whether this delay may affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL), clinical and biological parameters at dialysis onset, and then survival and hospitalization during dialysis is unknown.
Methods: We considered all adult patients who began dialysis in Lorraine (France) in 2005-2006 having previously been followed by a nephrologist.
Background: To identify demographic and clinical factors associated with psychological and behavioral functioning (PBF) in people with type 2 diabetes living in France.
Methods: In March 2002, approximately 10,000 adults, who had been reimbursed for at least one hypoglycemic treatment or insulin dose during the last quarter of 2001, received a questionnaire about their health status and PBF (3,646 responders). For this analysis, the 3,090 persons with type 2 diabetes, aged 18-85 years old were selected.
Background: Studies evaluating patient outcomes in dialysis as a function of quality of predialysis therapeutic care are lacking.
Objective: To evaluate the association of quality of predialysis therapeutic practices with survival and hospitalization during the first year of dialysis.
Research Design: The AVantagE de la Néphroprotection dans l'Insuffisance Rénale study was an observational cohort study.
Rationale, Aims And Objectives: The nephrology literature contains little information about the global patterns of medication used in the management of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of nephrological therapeutic management of CKD patients compared with current guidelines and to investigate associations between patient characteristics and the quality of therapeutic management.
Methods: All adult CKD patients who were starting dialysis in Lorraine (France) between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2006 and who had been referred to a nephrologist no less than 1 month previously were enrolled.
Background: Little is known about antihypertensive management and control of blood pressure (BP) and proteinuria in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Data from a large observational study (AVENIR), carried out in Lorraine (France), were used to analyse antihypertensive treatment and control of BP and proteinuria in patients with advanced CKD, under nephrologist care or not.
Methods: All adults with CKD, beginning dialysis in 2005 and 2006, were included and categorized into patients 'under nephrologist care' and 'not under nephrologist care' at the time when treatment, BP and proteinuria results were considered.
Background: Inadequate anaemia correction (haemoglobin (Hb) <11 g/dl without receiving an erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) is common in pre-dialysis patients, but little is known about its determinants. We used data from the French end-stage renal disease (ESRD) registry to investigate these determinants and the patients' anaemia status 1 year after starting dialysis.
Methods: Pre-dialysis anaemia care was studied in 6,271 incident ESRD patients from 13 regions, who were first treated between 2003 and 2005.
End-stage renal disease has an important impact on the patients' daily life, which can be measured by quality of life questionnaires. The objective of this work was to adapt the Kidney Disease Quality of Life questionnaire (KDQoL) into French and to determine its basic psychometric properties, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPopulation-based study demonstrated that iron deficiency is really frequent, and anaemia not rare. Nevertheless, iron deficiency afflicts anaemic patients at all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Bioavailability of oral iron supplements is highly variable, particularly in case of CKD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to assess whether changes in leisure-time physical activity over 3 years are associated with changes in health-related quality of life.
Method: Among the adults enrolled in the Supplementation en Vitamines et Minéraux Antioxidants study in France, 3891 completed the Modifiable Activity Questionnaire to assess leisure-time physical activity and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form to assess health-related quality of life in 1998 and 2001. Multivariate analyses involving logistic and linear regressions determined the association between changes in leisure-time physical activity and changes in health-related quality of life.
Background: Rates of morbidity and mortality remain high among patients with chronic kidney disease, but depend to some extent on modifiable factors such as the therapeutic drug care provided.
Methods: This prospective community-based study assessed the impact of early nephrology referral on the drug treatments of a consecutive series of patients. More than 98% of patients with end-stage renal disease, living in a French region, who began kidney replacement therapy (KRT) between 1997 and 1999 were enrolled.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate, first, the effect on enhancement of the liver and aorta during abdominal CT of the use of saline solution as a partial substitute for or in addition to contrast medium when the dose of medium is determined by the patient's body weight and, second, whether use of a saline chaser allows a decrease in the dose of contrast medium to less than 1.5 mL/kg.
Subjects And Methods: We enrolled 407 patients undergoing abdominal exploration on MDCT, including an early arterial phase and a portal phase.