Synergistic interaction effect between job control and social support at work on general psychological distress.

Purpose: Little is known about the interaction between job control and social support at work on common mental disorders. To examine whether there is a synergistic interaction effect between job control and social support at work on general psychological distress and whether it differs by the level of job demands.

Methods: About 1,940 male and female workers from the Malmö Shoulder and Neck Study were chosen for this cross-sectional study.

Psychosocial working conditions and exhaustion in a working population sample of Swedish middle-aged men and women.

Background: Exhaustion is a concept of interest for both occupational health research and stress-disease theory research. The aim of the present study was to explore associations between chronic stressors, in terms of psychosocial working conditions, and exhaustion in a Swedish middle-aged population sample.

Methods: A vocationally active population sample of the Malmö Shoulder and Neck Study cohort, comprising 2555 men and 2466 women between 45 and 64 years of age, was used.

Conflict between the work and family domains and exhaustion among vocationally active men and women.

Exhaustion is consistently found to be more prevalent in women than in men. Women suffer from job strain more often, which may constitute a partial explanation for this phenomenon, but experienced shortcomings in combining work and family demands may also contribute to ill health. The aim of this study was to investigate, and analyse by gender, how work-related and family-related factors, as well as the interface between them, i.

Sleeping problems as a risk factor for subsequent musculoskeletal pain and the role of job strain: results from a one-year follow-up of the Malmö Shoulder Neck Study Cohort.

Background: The role of sleeping problems in the causal pathway between job strain and musculoskeletal pain is not clear.

Purpose: To investigate the impact of sleeping problems and job strain on the one-year risk for neck, shoulder, and lumbar pain.

Method: A prospective study, using self-administered questionnaires, of a healthy cohort of 4,140 vocationally active persons ages 45-64, residing in the city of Malmo.

Income change at retirement, neighbourhood-based social support, and ischaemic heart disease: results from the prospective cohort study "Men born in 1914".

Retirement from active life often leads to decreased finances and reduced social contact, which may increase ischaemic heart disease (IHD) risk in individuals. We examined whether income evolution during the decade before retirement has an impact on subsequent IHD, and explored the mediating effect of common risk factors and social support from different sources (marriage/cohabitation, support from friends/relatives, and neighbourhood-based social support). We analyzed data from the 1982-1983 prospective cohort study, "Men born in 1914" (n=498, follow-up period=10 years) conducted in Malmö, Sweden, merged with yearly income data for 14 years preceding baseline.

Job stress and major coronary events: results from the Job Stress, Absenteeism and Coronary Heart Disease in Europe study.

Aims: The intention of this study is to investigate the relationship of the demands/control/strain model with hard coronary events in an epidemiological, prospective, multicenter, European study.

Methods And Results: Six cohorts (Brussels, Ghent, Lille, Barcelona, Göteborg and Malmö) from four European countries (Belgium, France, Spain and Sweden) consisting of 21 111 middle-aged male subjects participated between 1993 and 1996 in the baseline survey of the Job Stress, Absenteeism and Coronary Heart Disease in Europe (JACE) study. The Karasek strain model of psychological demands (five items)/control (nine items) was used.

The transition of reported pain in different body regions--a one-year follow-up study.

Background: The course of pain at a specific region such as the lower back has previously been shown as well as for generalized pain. However we have not found any report on the course of pain from various different specific regions. The aim of this investigation was to study the one-year transition of reported pain in different body locations.

Socioeconomic differences in the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged men and women with subclinical atherosclerosis in Sweden.

While the persistence of socioeconomic differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been recognized for many years, less is known about whether socioeconomic factors are of importance to CVD before symptoms of the disease appear. In this study the associations among educational level, occupational status and progression of atherosclerosis were investigated in 1016 Swedish middle-aged men and women with signs of subclinical atherosclerosis, i.e.

Incidence of shoulder and neck pain in a working population: effect modification between mechanical and psychosocial exposures at work? Results from a one year follow up of the Malmö shoulder and neck study cohort.

Study Objective: To assess the impact of mechanical exposure and work related psychosocial factors on shoulder and neck pain.

Design: A prospective cohort study.

Participants: 4919 randomly chosen, vocationally active men and women ages 45-65 residing in a Swedish city.

Increasing prevalence of overweight, obesity and physical inactivity: two population-based studies 1986 and 1994.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the 1986-1994 trend in obesity, overweight and sedentary leisure-time physical activity status, and the educational gradient in overweight and obesity in the city of Malmö, Sweden.

Material/methods: The public health surveys in Malmö 1986 and 1994 are cross-sectional studies. A total of 4,800 and 5,600 individuals aged 20-80 years were randomly chosen to be interviewed by a postal questionnaire.

Causes of death between 1911-1950 in a Swedish province with a population characterized by longevity.

Aims: Life expectancy in Sweden is among the highest in the world, and the province of Halland has the highest life expectancy in Sweden today. In an earlier paper the authors reported that life expectancy in the province of Halland in the south-west of the country was approx. 3.

Life-course perspective on socioeconomic differences in carotid atherosclerosis.

Objective: Socioeconomic status (SES) in adulthood is known to be related to carotid atherosclerosis. However, few studies have tried to assess its association with SES from a life-course perspective.

Methods And Results: We examined the relationship between SES in childhood and in adulthood and carotid atherosclerosis in a general population of Swedish men and women.

Life expectancy in the province of Halland, Sweden, 1911-50: the progress of public health in a long-living population.

Background: Life expectancy in Sweden is currently one of the longest in the world. The population of Halland has the longest life expectancy in Sweden.

Aim: Life expectancy in the province of Halland and Sweden as a whole during 1911-50 was studied and the findings are discussed in the light of local historical data.

Behaviour-focused pain coping: consistency and convergence to work capability of the swedish version of the chronic pain coping inventory.

The aim was to study the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Chronic Pain Coping Inventory. The material consisted of a group of 100 subjects recruited from a large population study. Pain status and the absence of pain-related sick leave during the previous year conditioned inclusion.

Smoking cessation among daily smokers, aged 45-69 years: a longitudinal study in Malmö, Sweden.

Objective: To investigate differences in snuff consumption, socio-demographic and psychosocial characteristics between baseline daily smokers who had remained daily smokers, become intermittent smokers or stopped smoking at the 1-year follow-up.

Design, Setting, Participants And Measurements: A population of 12 507 individuals aged 45-69 years, interviewed at baseline in 1992-94 and at a 1-year follow-up, was investigated in this longitudinal study. The three groups of baseline daily smokers were compared to the total population according to socio-demographic, psychosocial and snuff consumption characteristics.

The experience of pain from the shoulder-neck area related to the total body pain, self-experienced health and mental distress. The Malmö Shoulder-Neck Study group.

The present paper presents the relationship between the total body-pain (TBP) score, defined as the total number of areas shaded on a pain drawing, and the pain from one area, the Shoulder-Neck (SN), among subjects in or out of full-time gainful work respectively. Furthermore, relationships between pain-score, self-experienced health (SEH) and level of mental distress, measured with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were investigated. The analyses is based on a general population sample of 8,116 men and women, 45-60 years of age, completing a questionnaire in the Malmö Shoulder Neck Study.