Development and validation of a French job-exposure matrix for healthcare workers: JEM Soignances.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aimed to develop and evaluate a job-exposure matrix (JEM) specific to healthcare workers, JEM Soignances, based on self-reported data.

Methods

The JEM was constructed using data from healthcare workers within the CONSTANCES cohort (N=12 489). Job titles and sectors of activity (eg, hospital activities) defined occupational groups. We assessed 24 exposures covering organizational, psychosocial, physical, chemical and biological factors. Several methods (group-based frequency, CART, random forest, extreme gradient boosting machine) were applied using a 70% training sample. Performance was evaluated on the remaining 30% using area under the ROC curve (AUC) and Cohen's Kappa (κ). Two alternative JEM were proposed using only job titles or adding healthcare e

SUBMITTER: Singier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626462 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature