Evaluation of Pressure Pain Threshold as a Measure of Perceived Stress and High Job Strain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether pressure pain threshold (PPT), determined by pressure algometry, can be used as an objective measure of perceived stress and job strain.

Methods

We used cross-sectional base line data collected during 1994 to 1995 within the Project on Research and Intervention in Monotonous work (PRIM), which included 3123 employees from a variety of Danish companies. Questionnaire data included 18 items on stress symptoms, 23 items from the Karasek scale on job strain, and information on discomfort in specified anatomical regions was also collected. Clinical examinations included pressure pain algometry measurements of PPT on the trapezius and supraspinatus muscles and the tibia. Associations of stress symptoms and job strain with PPT of each site was analy

SUBMITTER: Hven L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5214760 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature