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Psychometric properties of the French version of the Karasek Job Content Questionnaire: a study of the scales of decision latitude, psychological demands, social support, and physical demands in the GAZEL cohortIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM U88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, France
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 75:129-44. 2002..Internal consistency, factorial validity, and convergent validity were examined in a large occupational cohort of men and women...
Psychosocial work environment and mental health: Job-strain and effort-reward imbalance models in a context of major organizational changesIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM, U687 IFR69, Saint Maurice, France
Int J Occup Environ Health 12:111-9. 2006..Social support at work played a role to reduce depressive symptoms for women. These findings emphasize the deleterious effects of psychosocial work environment on mental health during major organizational changes...
Psychosocial factors at work and subsequent depressive symptoms in the Gazel cohortI Niedhammer
INSERM National Research Institute on Health and Medicine, Unit 88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, France
Scand J Work Environ Health 24:197-205. 1998....
Validity of self-reported weight and height in the French GAZEL cohortI Niedhammer
INSERM Unit 88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, France
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24:1111-8. 2000....
Shoulder disorders related to work organization and other occupational factors among supermarket cashiersI Niedhammer
INSERM U88 Hôpital National de Saint Maurice, 14 rue du Val d Osne, F 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Int J Occup Environ Health 4:168-78. 1998....
Psychosocial factors at work and sickness absence in the Gazel cohort: a prospective studyI Niedhammer
INSERM Unit 88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, France
Occup Environ Med 55:735-41. 1998..To test whether psychosocial factors at work are predictors of rates of sickness absence...
Psychosocial factors at work and self reported health: comparative results of cross sectional and prospective analyses of the French GAZEL cohortI Niedhammer
INSERM Unit 88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, France
Occup Environ Med 60:509-15. 2003..Psychosocial factors at work have been found to be significant contributors to health, especially cardiovascular health...
One-year predictive factors for various aspects of neck disordersA Leclerc
INSERM U88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, Saint Maurice, France
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 24:1455-62. 1999..A longitudinal epidemiologic study conducted over 12 months among active workers in different occupations. The study was primarily designed to evaluate intervention for prevention of low back and other spinal disorders...
Occupational predictors of pregnancy outcomes in Irish working women in the Lifeways cohortI Niedhammer
UCD School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BJOG 116:943-52. 2009..The objective of this study was to explore the association between occupational factors and pregnancy outcomes in a prospective cohort of Irish pregnant women...
[The French version of the Leymann's questionnaire on workplace bullying: the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT)]I Niedhammer
Inserm U 687 IFR 69, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, 14, rue du Val d Osne, 94410 Saint Maurice
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 54:245-62. 2006..The objective of this study was to elaborate this French version and to explore its factorial, convergent and predictive validity...
[Personal and occupational factors associated with low-back pain in a general working population in France]S Plouvier
U Inserm, Villejuif, France
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique 58:383-91. 2010..The purpose of this study was to analyse the associations between low-back pain and occupational and personal factors, with a special focus on interactions between age and occupational exposures...
Incidence of shoulder pain in repetitive workA Leclerc
INSERM Unité 88 National Institute on Health and Medical Research, Saint Maurice, France
Occup Environ Med 61:39-44. 2004..To determine the predictiveness of personal and occupational factors for the onset of shoulder pain in occupations requiring repetitive work...
Upper-limb disorders in repetitive workA Leclerc
INSERM National Institute on Health and Medical Research, Unité 88, Saint Maurice, France
Scand J Work Environ Health 27:268-78. 2001..A longitudinal study was conducted to determine the predictability of personal and occupational factors with respect to the incidence of upper-limb disorders in occupations requiring repetitive work...
How is sex considered in recent epidemiological publications on occupational risks?I Niedhammer
INSERM U88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, 14 rue du Val d Osne, F 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
Occup Environ Med 57:521-7. 2000....
Social integration and mortality: a prospective study of French employees of Electricity of France-Gas of France: the GAZEL CohortLisa F Berkman
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:167-74. 2004..These results suggest that in this employed cohort of middle-aged men and women, social integration is an important predictor of mortality...
Importance of psychosocial work factors on general health outcomes in the national French SUMER surveyIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM, U687 IFR69, Saint Maurice, France
Occup Med (Lond) 58:15-24. 2008..To examine the associations between psychosocial work factors and general health outcomes, taking into account other occupational risk factors, within the national French working population...
The mental health effects of multiple work and family demands. A prospective study of psychiatric sickness absence in the French GAZEL studyMaria Melchior
MRC Centre for Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:573-82. 2007..Individuals who experience work stress or heavy family demands are at elevated risk of poor mental health. Yet, the cumulative effects of multiple work and family demands are not well known, particularly in men...
Health problems were the strongest predictors of attrition during follow-up of the GAZEL cohortMarcel Goldberg
INSERM Unité 687 IFR 69, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, 14, rue du Val d Osne, F 94415 Saint Maurice Cedex, France
J Clin Epidemiol 59:1213-21. 2006..This study examined socioeconomic, lifestyle, and health factors associated with response to annual mail questionnaires in a longitudinal study from 1990 through 2000 within the French GAZEL cohort...
Insomniac complaints interfere with quality of life but not with absenteeism: respective role of depressive and organic comorbidityPierre Philip
Clinique du Sommeil, CHU Pellegrin, Place Amelie Raba Leon, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
Sleep Med 7:585-91. 2006..Insomnia is common and associated with poor health status and quality of life. We designed a study to evaluate the impact of insomniac complaints with and without comorbidity on health status and absenteeism...
Economic activities and occupations at high risk for workplace bullying: results from a large-scale cross-sectional survey in the general working population in FranceIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM, U687 IFR 69, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94410 Saint Maurice, France
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 80:346-53. 2007..To evaluate the prevalence of workplace bullying in the general working population in France, and explore this prevalence across economic activities and occupations...
Association between workplace bullying and depressive symptoms in the French working populationIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM, U687 IFR 69, Saint Maurice, France
J Psychosom Res 61:251-9. 2006..The objective was to explore the association between the characteristics of the exposure to workplace bullying and depressive symptoms in a large sample of employees of the French working population...
Work factors and occupational class disparities in sickness absence: findings from the GAZEL cohort studyMaria Melchior
National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Saint Maurice, France
Am J Public Health 95:1206-12. 2005..To estimate the contribution of stress-related and physical work factors to occupational class disparities in sickness absence from work...
Exposure to job-stress factors in a national survey in FranceChristine Cohidon
Département Epidémiologie en Entreprise Epidemiology Department, INRS French National Research and Safety Institute, Vandoeuvre, France
Scand J Work Environ Health 30:379-89. 2004..The aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of occupational psychosocial risk factors to which the French working population is exposed. It also focused on developing a job-exposure matrix...
Social relations and self-reported health: a prospective analysis of the French Gazel cohortMaria Melchior
Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:1817-30. 2003..Our results indicate that both clinicians in their practice and researchers may do well to focus increased attention on the health impact of social support...
The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisonsJohannes Siegrist
Department of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf, PO Box 10 10 07, D 40001 Duesseldorf, Germany
Soc Sci Med 58:1483-99. 2004..In the light of the importance of work for adult health such investigations are crucial in advanced societies within and beyond Europe...
Effort-reward imbalance model and self-reported health: cross-sectional and prospective findings from the GAZEL cohortIsabelle Niedhammer
INSERM Unit 88, Hopital National de Saint Maurice, 14 rue du Val d Osne, Saint Maurice Cedex 94415, France
Soc Sci Med 58:1531-41. 2004..They urged to explore various formulations of the ERI model. They also underlined the need for longitudinal study design and separate analyses for men and women in the field of psychosocial factors at work...
Selected questions on biomechanical exposures for surveillance of upper-limb work-related musculoskeletal disordersAlexis Descatha
INSERM U687 IFR69, HNSM, 14 rue du Val d Osne, 94415 St Maurice Cedex, France
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 81:1-8. 2007..We sought to reduce the number of variables on a surveillance questionnaire by identifying which variables best summarized biomechanical exposure in a survey of the French working population...
