Open AccessDoes a stressful psychosocial work environment mediate the effects of shift work on cardiovascular risk factors?
Author(s) -
Richard Peter,
Lars Alfredsson,
Anders Knutsson,
Johannes Siegrist,
Peter Westerholm
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.448
Subject(s) - psychosocial , shift work , confounding , medicine , odds , work (physics) , gerontology , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , logistic regression , mechanical engineering , engineering
Associations between shift work, chronic psychosocial work stress, and 2 important cardiovascular risk factors, hypertension and atherogenic lipids were studied. The hypothesis was tested that psychosocial work stress, as defined by the model of effort-reward imbalance, mediates the effects of shift work on cardiovascular risk.