Psychosocial workplace factors and alcohol-related morbidity: a prospective study of 3 million Swedish workers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychosocial workplace factors may be associated with alcohol-related morbidity, but previous studies have had limited opportunities to take non-occupational explanatory factors into account. The aim of this study is to investigate associations between job control, job demands and their combination (job strain) and diagnosed alcohol-related morbidity while accounting for several potentially confounding factors measured across the life-course, including education.

Methods

Job control, job demands and job strain were measured using the Swedish job exposure matrix measuring psychosocial workload on the occupational level linked to over 3 million individuals based on their occupational titles in 2005 and followed up until 2016. Cox regression models were built to esti

SUBMITTER: Almroth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9159324 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature