It is generally assumed that organizational downsizing has considerable negative consequences, not only for workers that are laid off, but also for those who remain employed. The empirical evidence with regard to effects on sickness absence is, however, inconsistent. This study employs register data covering a major part of the total ...
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BACKGROUND: Although teaching is considered a high-stress profession, research on stress-related outcomes among teachers, such as absence from work due to illness (i.e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such ...
ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to examine the role of coping styles in sickness absence. In line with findings that contrast the reactive�passive focused strategies, problem-solving strategies are generally associated with positive results in terms of well-being and overall health outcomes; our hypothesis is that such strategies are positively ...
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This study examined the previously unexplored occupational grade-specific relationships of domestic responsibilities, the age of children, and work-family spillover, with registered sickness absence (>3 days' sick leave episodes, a mean follow-up of 17 months; n = 18,366 municipal employees; 76% women). The results showed that ...
clausen t., nielsen k., carneiro i.g. & borg v. (2011)?Job demands, job resources and long-term sickness absence in the Danish eldercare services: a prospective analysis of register-based outcomes. Journal of Advanced Nursing 00(0), 000-000. ABSTRACT: Aim.? To investigate associations between psychosocial job demands, job resources and cases of ...
Data on sickness absence frequently are used as a measure of morbidity and its social consequences in the employed population. The effects of sickness absence, as well as any possible differences in diagnoses among pregnant women as compared the sick leave data among the total population of women in fertile age have so far not been ...
Paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 24, No. 1, 27-35 (1996). Abstract: "The aim of this study was to analyse sex differences in medically certified sickness absence with special regard to parental status and age. All new sick-leave spells exceeding seven days and certified by a physician in a county of Sweden were ...
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Objectives To examine the effects of physical work environment on long term sickness absence and to investigate interaction between physical and psychosocial risk factors.Design and setting Prospective cohort study of long term sickness absence among employees in Denmark.Participants 5357 employees interviewed in 2000 about their ...
ortega a., christensen k.b., hogh a., rugulies r.&borg v. (2011) Journal of Nursing Management19, 752-759 One-year prospective study on the effect of workplace bullying on long-term sickness absence Aims? To examine the effect of workplace bullying on long-term sickness absence using a prospective design. Background? Although ...
BACKGROUND: Sickness absence in Sweden is high, particularly in young women and the reasons are unclear. Many Swedish women combine parenthood and work and are facing demands that may contribute to impaired health and well-being. We compared mothers and women without children under different conditions, assuming increased sickness absence in mothers, due ...
ObjectivesTo explore the associations of working hours (paid, domestic, commuting, and total) with sickness absence, and to examine whether these associations vary according to the level of employee control over daily working hours.MethodsProspective cohort study among 25?703 full?time public sector employees in 10 towns in Finland. A survey of working ...
Introduction: The primary objectives were to compare the duration of sickness absence in employees with high levels of somatic symptom severity (HLSSS) with employees with lower levels of somatic symptom severity, and to establish the long-term outcomes concerning return to work (RTW), disability and discharge. Secondary objective was to evaluate determinants of the duration ...
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore utilization of nurse substitutes in the school setting in Illinois. The literature described personnel who staff the school health office in the absence of the school nurse and the barriers to obtaining nurse substitutes. There were no empirical studies conducted on school nurse ...
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OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine whether sleep problems predict subsequent sickness absence among middle-aged public sector employees. METHODS: The data included 5391 female and 1454 male employees of the City of Helsinki from questionnaire surveys at baseline in 2000-2002. These data were prospectively linked to the employer's sickness ...
BackgroundSelf-reported disability pension (DP) and sickness absence are commonly used in epidemiological and other studies as a measure of exposure or even as an outcome. The aims were (1) to compare such self-reports with national register information in order to evaluate the validity of self-reported DP and sickness ...
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BackgroundThe differences in sickness absence between men and women in Sweden have attracted a great deal of interest nationally in the media and among policymakers over a long period. The fact that women have much higher levels of sickness absence has been explained in various ways. These explanations are contextual and one of the theories points to the ...
... of blackhead disease in chickens was studied in battery cages and floor pens in the absence of ... inoculated intracloacally with H. meleagridis and placed in battery cages became infected and had cecal l...
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Objective To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees.Design Prospective cohort study over 7.5 years of employees grouped into categories on the basis of reductions of personnel in their occupation and workplace: no downsizing (< 8% reduction), ...
Evaluation of Pharmacokinetics of Sativex in the Absence and Presence of a Known Inducer of CYP3A4; Evaluation of Pharmacokinetics of Sativex in the Absence and Presence of a Potent Inhibitor of CYP3A4; Evaluation of Pharmacokinetics of Sativex in the Absence and Presence of a CYP2C19 Inhibitor.
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of light elements such as nitrogen. 2.5. Raman instrumentation In situ Raman spectra from the copperCopper dissolution in bromide medium in the absence and presence of hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) A of copper in bromide medium, in the absence and presence of hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA), has been studied
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Background: Studies of absence in educational settings have primarily been concerned with the causes for and results of student absence. However, recent research has argued that distinguishing between different forms of absence could be important. In consequence, studying the way in which ...
Accurate 3D/2D vessel registration is complicated by issues of image quality, occlusion, and other problems. This study performs a quantitative comparison of 3D/2D vessel registration in which vessels segmented from preoperative CT or MR are registered with biplane x-ray angiograms by either a) simultaneous two-view registration with advance calculation of ...
American football is currently played in 14 European countries. It is a contact sport where injuries are inevitable. In this study, injuries causing more than one week of absence from game or practise were registered during the 1991 preseason and season. A total of 112 injuries was reported among 684 players. Knees were most vulnerable ...
Background: Social inequalities in health can to a substantial degree be explained by social causation. However, indirect selection by early life factors has been suggested. The main aim of this study was to estimate how much adult social gradients in selected psychiatric outcomes depended on parental and individual characteristics in early life. Methods: The population ...
INTRODUCTION: The present overview discusses ten papers dealing with four research topics using self-reported work environment in the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study (DWECS) linked with register data on long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in the Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalisation (DREAM). RESEARCH ...
Study Objectives:To examine secular trends in work-related sleep disturbances and their association with sickness absence in the Swedish working population.Design.Nationally representative cross-sectional samples of the Swedish working population aged 16�64 (the biennial Swedish Work Environment Survey) in 1993, 1995, and 1999 respectively. Questionnaire ...
Absences attributed to sickness were investigated in 1410 deck and engine-room crew members during a period of two years and five months. The mean frequency of absences was 0-23 per man year, with a mean duration per absence of 41 days. The absence frequency varied with both rank and place of work. Altogether 23% ...
Background: Eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) is typically assessed by measuring youths� intake of palatable snack foods after a standard meal designed to reduce hunger. Because energy intake required to reach satiety varies among individuals, a standard meal may not ensure the absence of hunger among participants of all weight strata.Objective: The ...
Objectives. To estimate the contribution of stress-related and physical work factors to occupational class disparities in sickness absence from work.Methods. Our sample consisted of 8847 men and 2886 women participating in the French GAZEL cohort study. Occupational class and medically certified sickness absence data (1995�2001) were ...
BackgroundSickness absence increases with lower socioeconomic status. However, it is not well known how this relation depends on specific aspects of sickness absence or the degree to which socioeconomic differences in sickness absence may be explained by other factors.The purpose of the study was to examine ...
BackgroundThe CoAct (Cocreating Activity) study is investigating a novel lifestyle intervention, aimed at the working population, with daily activity monitoring and distance counselling via telephone and secure web messages. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of lifestyle counselling on the level of physical activity in an ...
CONTEXTAsthma self-management education is critical for high-quality asthma care for children. A number of studies have assessed the effectiveness of providing asthma education in schools to augment education provided by primary care providers.OBJECTIVETo conduct a systematic review of the literature on school-based asthma education programs.METHODSAs our data sources, we used ...
The authors studied the rate of sickness-related absence of employees at a tertiary care center. They examined sickness-related absence records of employees, including nurses, food service workers, housekeeping, and security personnel, in a university teaching hospital in Lebanon over a period of 1 year. These departments included ...
It has been intensely debated whether visual stimuli are processed to the point of semantic analysis in the absence of awareness. In the present study, we measured the extent to which the meaning of a stimulus was registered using the N400 component of human event-related potentials (ERPs), a highly sensitive index of the semantic ...
The paper demonstrates how much information can be extracted about the history of industrial injuries from company records. After some background on work processes in the mining industry, accident registers of the Wemyss Coal Company are examined for two three-year periods, 1906-9 and 1921-23. Discussion and statistics are provided for types of injuries, duration of ...
A study of the linear feedback shift registers corresponding to a subset of nonprimitive irreducible
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Musicians and nonmusicians listened to major, minor, and dissonant musical chords while their BOLD brain responses were registered with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In both groups of listeners, minor and dissonant chords, compared with major chords, elicited enhanced responses in several brain areas, including the amygdala, retrosplenial cortex, brain stem, and ...
A thorough study of Coronal Mass Ejection (CMEs) occurrence and passage through the Earth at times of Forbush Decreases (FD) during the period 1997-2007 (almost a complete solar cycle) was done. CMEs were taken from SOHO observations, FD registered at a low rigidity cutoff (Oulu) and a high rigidity cutoff (Mexico City) were considered. CMEs ...
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The report describes an immunologic and family study of an adult with a selective absence of serum IgA and no diminution of serum IgG and IgM. Parameters of immunologic competence, including humoral antibody production, delayed hypersensitivity response, ...
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The problem of the study was to investigate the influence of father absence on the diagnosed psychopathology of military dependent children. The purpose of the study was to analyze data obtained from military medical center records for dependent children ...
The effects of father absence on military children were studied by use of a questionnaire and personal interviews. The sample consisted of U.S. military officers and their dependents stationed at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. The study focu...
... studies that explore the complex mechanisms of normal brain development. The knowledge gained from these fundamental studies provides the foundation for understanding how this process can go awry and, thus, offers hope for ... disorders. NIH Patient Recruitment for Absence of the ...
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BackgroundImproved cancer survival poses important questions about future life conditions of the survivor. We examined the possible influence of a breast cancer diagnosis on subsequent working and marital status, sickness absence and income.MaterialsWe conducted a matched cohort study including 4,761 women 40�59 years of age and ...
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... The absence of antimalarial activity of chlorpromazine and prochlorperazine confirmed previous studies in which in vivo reversal of chloroquine ...
The tilted mutant mouse, which lacks otoconia in the inner ear, was used to study development of the
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