M Elovainio

..We examined associations of psychosocial factors with psychological distress and sleep problems in Finnish general practitioners (GPs) and specialists...

..Type 2 diabetes is an increasingly prevalent illness, and there is considerable variation in the quality of care provided to patients with diabetes in primary care...

..To examine whether the activation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), an enzyme involved in serotonin production, is associated with depressive symptoms...

..The authors examined whether living alone predicts the use of antidepressant medication and whether socioeconomic, psychosocial, or behavioral factors explain this association...

..Little is known about the role that work-related factors play in the decline of cognitive function. This study examined the association between perceived organisational justice and cognitive function among middle-aged men and women...

..Improving managerial and decision making procedures among school personnel may be an important factor for protecting pupils' academic performance and wellbeing...

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..This study compared parental smoking with school personnel smoking in relation to adolescents' smoking behaviours, alcohol use, and illicit drug use...

..We tested the hypothesis that depressive symptoms are associated with atherosclerosis only when combined with other risk factors, such as inflammation indicated by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) activation...

..008). These findings suggest that health-related selection operates at younger ages and that social causation contributes to socioeconomic differences in cardiometabolic health in midlife...

..This paper is a report of an investigation into whether insecure work contract and shiftwork are associated with reduced wellbeing indicators, such as psychological distress, low job involvement and low work ability...

..The aim of this study was to identify common trajectories of lipid levels across childhood and early adulthood life span...

..We tested whether organisational injustice contributes to chronic inflammation in a population of middle-aged men and women...

..The aim of this study was to extend previous research in studying whether working in high justice workplace would protect from health effects following environmental stressors outside work...

..Whether cognitive function predicts physical function and whether physical function predicts cognitive function were assessed in middle-aged men and women...

..The present study sought to assess whether C-reactive protein and interleukin-6 predict cognitive symptoms of depression or whether these symptoms predict inflammatory markers...

..We investigated whether exposure to passive jobs, measured three times over an average of 5 years, is associated with leisure-time physical activity (LTPA)...

..We examined whether cognitive performance predicted mental and physical health from midlife to early old age...

..To investigate the association between effort/reward imbalance (ERI) at work and sedentary lifestyle...

..To examine exposure to workplace bullying as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and depression in employees...

..15 to 1.23. These findings suggest that migraine is associated with increased risk of recorded sickness absence independent of depression and respiratory disorders...

..Deficient nurturing attitudes in childhood might affect sensitivity to work stress and selection into stressful work conditions in adulthood. More attention should be paid to pre-employment factors in work stress research...

..2%. If the observed association is causal, our findings suggest that high effort-reward imbalance might function as a modifiable risk factor for new-onset migraine...

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..It also refers to respectful and considerate treatment of individuals by supervisors (relational justice)...

..We tested associations between high-strain and active jobs and cognitive function in middle-aged men and women...

..This study examined sickness absence as a risk factor for job termination, unemployment, and disability pension among temporary and permanent workers...

..Thus, the results of this study supported the 1st hypothesis and provided evidence that perceptions of the organization are potential factors contributing to employee health...

..In this study, these consequences were examined prospectively by focusing on sickness absence in hospital staff...

..To examine the association of childhood socioeconomic position (SEP) with adult cardiovascular risk factors, vascular structure, and vascular function in a contemporary population of young adults...

..These suggestive associations did not replicate across all measurement times, which warrants further study on these SNPs in other populations...

..Further research is needed to clarify whether mother-related hyperactivity adequately describes the temperament of the child or is a reflection of mother's hostile child-rearing attitudes...

..To examine the relation between perceived organisational justice and cardiovascular reactivity in women...

..Diabetes is thought to be associated with increased risk of sickness absence in working populations. We examined the contribution of co-morbidity to this association...

..To identify determinants of sickness absence in hospital physicians...

..To examine health, job satisfaction, and behavioural risks as antecedents of selection from fixed term to permanent employment...

..The extent to which work stressors and stress predicted injuries occur in a large population of Finnish hospital workers was studied...

..However, only limited empirical evidence on this mechanism is available...

..In accordance with the uncertainty management model, these associations were dependent on experienced work-time control and perceived changes at work...

..To test whether depression is independently associated with elevated levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) in a large nationwide population-based sample...

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..High work stress could decrease physical activity but the evidence of the relationship has remained equivocal. The present study examined the association between job strain and leisure-time physical activity in a large sample of employees...

..To examine the association between work hours, work stress, and collaboration among the ward personnel, and the risk of hospital-associated infection among patients...

..This study examined whether active on-call hours and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors are associated with physicians' turnover intentions and distress...

..The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which the dimensions of the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) model--effort, rewards and ERI--are associated with the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors...

..Furthermore job decision latitude was associated with organizational justice both at individual and work unit level. Justice evaluations predicted sickness absence only at the individual level...

..The authors examined whether working in downsizing organisations predicts use of psychotropic drugs among employees who remain in employment...

..However, the relationship between pre-employment factors and later psychological distress in adulthood is not completely explained by job environment...

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..This report assessed whether hospital ward overcrowding predicts antidepressant use among hospital staff...

..Our findings highlight the importance of offering more job control to physicians to prevent unnecessary physician turnover...

..CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that higher levels of depressive symptoms are associated with higher levels of CRP, but this association may largely be attributable to obesity or triglycerides...

..We aimed to review evidence on the relationship between temporary employment and health, and to see whether the association is dependent on outcome measure, instability of employment, and contextual factors...

..7, 95% CI: 0.5, 0.9 for men and women combined). These findings suggest that the conventional research practice of treating the employed as a single group may attenuate the associations between employment status and mortality...

..It is generally acknowledged that depressed patients need specific attention during the first weeks after initiation of antidepressant (AD) treatment because of the increased risk of suicide...

..The authors also tested whether psychosocial factors (job demands, job control, and colleague consultation) explain these differences in commitment between GPs and other physicians...

..Early retirement among physicians is a worldwide problem and all efforts to try to minimize it are of importance...

..We prospectively examined whether preemployment family factors predict adulthood work stress manifested as effort-reward imbalance (ERI)...

..We examined whether psychological problems and health-risk behaviors underpin the health effects of different event categories...

..Hostility in childhood was not significantly associated with unemployment in adulthood. Thus, this study supported the psychosocial vulnerability model in men...

..No 3-way interaction of job demand, job control, and social support on IMT was found. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that job strain may be related to atherosclerosis already in its early nonsymptomatic stages in men...

..We examined trends in antidepressant medication use during 1997-2007 in Finland among persons with or without diabetes using register-based data on both diabetes and antidepressant use...

..To examine whether exposure to long working hours predicts various forms of sleep disturbance; short sleep, difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking, early waking and waking without feeling refreshed...

..We examined the associations of contractual job insecurity (fixed-term vs permanent employment contract) and subjectively assessed job insecurity with sickness presenteeism among those who had no sickness absences during the study year...

..They tested these models by using hierarchical regression analysis and structural equation modeling (LISREL 8; K. G. Jöreskog & D. Sörbom, 1993). Both hypotheses were supported...

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..In conclusion, work unit social factors seem to be predictive of subsequent doctor-diagnosed depression, but other aspects of psychosocial work environment may also be important...

..Hostility and aggressiveness seem to be related to labour market prospects only among individuals in low socioeconomic positions...

..Among men, the association between temporary employment and antidepressant use was stronger within lower grade occupations. The results suggest that using antidepressants is more pronounced when temporary employment is unstable...

..Psychosocial climate at school reported by school personnel may be related to pupils' reports of being heard at school, depression, physical and psychological symptoms, truancy and received health education...

..These data suggest that early socioeconomic disadvantage influences later blood pressure in part through an effect on blood pressure in early life, which tracks into adulthood, and in part through an effect on BMI...

..Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) has various roles in the development and function of the heart and autonomic nervous system...

..These prospective data suggest that preemployment factors should be taken into account as potential confounders in future research on job strain-health associations...

..To examine sociodemographic, work-related factors and psychological health as predictors of sustained organizational commitment among temporary hospital employees...

..We tested the hypothesis that both obesity and unexplained weight loss are related to elevated suicide risk...

..e. heavier people tend to migrate to more rural areas where people tend to get heavier...

..This study examined the effects of nursing working conditions on the use of physical restraints and antipsychotics as restraints in long-term care units for elderly residents...

..To prospectively examine the role of childhood and adulthood factors in the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and adult systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP)...

..Impulsivity appears to be a distinct personality factor that may contribute to the onset of depressive illness in adults...

..The purpose to clarify what kind of managerial challenges employees experience regarding organisational justice in hospitals...

..The relationships of duty rota and liaison with other discipline to job satisfaction were weaker or non-existing...

..However, there is little systematic research on the extent to which modes of organizing nursing work are related to stressful characteristics of work...

..These findings suggest a two-way relationship between personality and having children...

..A number of studies suggest that variants in dopamine receptor genes, such as DRD2, are associated with depression but it is unclear if such variants also modify the association between life events and depression...

..136) and pNN50 (p=0.236) attenuated to the null, but adjustment for biological risk factors had little effect. Reward dependence and persistence were unrelated to indices of cardiac regulation...

..We examined the prospective association between occupational stress and incidence of newly diagnosed fibromyalgia...

..In this study, the associations of the APOE gene promoter polymorphisms -219G/T and +113G/C and their haplotypes with depressive symptoms were examined...

..Instead, nonhostile employees were sensitive to the depression in the unit. They reported low levels of stress when depression levels in the unit were low and increased stress when depression levels were high...

..The findings suggest that temperamental difficulty in childhood may be a useful risk indicator for general body mass in adulthood, and the mechanisms relating temperament with body mass should be further explored...

..R., Svrakic, D.M., Przybeck, T.R., 1993. A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 50, 975-990.], predicted depressive symptoms across a 4-year follow-up...

..COMT gene influences dopamine transmission and dopaminergic activity might moderate effects of stress on CHD risk. We examine whether COMT Val158Met polymorphism moderates the association between job strain and atherosclerosis...

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..To examine the reciprocal associations between depressive symptoms and clinical definitions of the metabolic syndrome in childhood and adulthood...

..Our evidence suggests that personality should be studied as a potential contributor to socioeconomic differences in health behaviours...

..We examined whether adolescent body mass index (BMI; kg/m) predicted the number of children in adulthood 21 years later...

..The authors conclude that the association of cynical hostility with smoking and alcohol use seems to be independent of intergenerational social mobility and childhood and adulthood SES...