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The impact of self-reported exposure to whole-body-vibrations on the risk of disability pension among men: a 15 year prospective studyFinn Tuchsen
Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, The National Research Centre for Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
BMC Public Health 10:305. 2010..This study investigates the association between occupational exposures to whole-body vibrations, and subsequent transition to disability pension...
Standing at work and progression of carotid atherosclerosisN Krause
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 26:227-36. 2000..The association between the amount of standing at work and the progression of carotid intima media thickness (IMT) was studied among 584 active working men participating in the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study...- Predictors of disability retirementN Krause
Human Population Laboratory, Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 23:403-13. 1997..This is the first prospective population-based study of predictors of disability retirement including information on workplace, socioeconomic, behavioral, and health-related factors... - Psychosocial job factors and return-to-work after compensated low back injury: a disability phase-specific analysisN Krause
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Ind Med 40:374-92. 2001..This study examines the impact of psychosocial job factors on time to RTW separately during the acute and subacute/chronic disability phases... - Alternative approaches for measuring duration of work disability after low back injury based on administrative workers' compensation dataN Krause
Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California, USA
Am J Ind Med 35:604-18. 1999..Studies of low back pain (LBP) disability remain largely incomparable because of different outcome definitions. To date, systematic comparisons of alternative outcome measures have not been made... - Determinants of duration of disability and return-to-work after work-related injury and illness: challenges for future researchN Krause
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, 745 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 7360, USA
Am J Ind Med 40:464-84. 2001..data and research needs in addressing the following question: What are the primary factors that affect the time lost from work, return-to-work (RTW), subsequent unemployment, and changes in occupation after disabling illness or injury?.. - Workplace demands, economic reward, and progression of carotid atherosclerosisJ Lynch
Human Population Laboratory, Public Health Institute California Department of Health Services, Berkeley 94704, USA
Circulation 96:302-7. 1997..Characteristics of the work environment have been associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but it is unclear whether these factors are associated with preclinical manifestations of disease... - Assessing stress-buffering effects: a cautionary noteN Krause
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
Psychol Aging 10:518-26. 1995.... - Psychosocial job factors, physical workload, and incidence of work-related spinal injury: a 5-year prospective study of urban transit operatorsN Krause
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 23:2507-16. 1998..04; 95% CI, 1.85-5.00). CONCLUSIONS: Physical workload and psychosocial job factors both independently predict spinal injury in transit vehicle operators... - Doctor proactive communication, return-to-work recommendation, and duration of disability after a workers' compensation low back injuryL K Dasinger
Public Health Institute, Berkeley, Calif, USA
J Occup Environ Med 43:515-25. 2001..Prospective studies are needed to confirm this effect. The impact of physician communication on RTW is largely confounded by injury and workplace factors... - Neighborhood deterioration, religious coping, and changes in health during late lifeN Krause
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
Gerontologist 38:653-64. 1998..In contrast, significant stress-buffering effects failed to emerge when functional disability served as the outcome measure... - Physical workload and ergonomic factors associated with prevalence of back and neck pain in urban transit operatorsN Krause
Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 22:2117-26; discussion 2127. 1997..Elevated risks for back and neck pain for female drivers were not explained by anthropometric and ergonomic factors... - Occupational disability due to low back pain: a new interdisciplinary classification based on a phase model of disabilityN Krause
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 19:1011-20. 1994..The authors propose an eight-phase classification system primarily based on the duration of work disability and that takes into account other biomedical, developmental, and social characteristics of work-disability resulting from LBP... - Aging, religious doubt, and psychological well-beingN Krause
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
Gerontologist 39:525-33. 1999..Moreover, the results reveal that the deleterious effects of doubt are greater for younger than for older people. Implications for practice with adults across the life span are suggested... - Financial strain, received support, anticipated support, and depressive symptoms in the People's Republic of ChinaN Krause
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan 48109 2029, USA
Psychol Aging 13:58-68. 1998..A detailed theoretical rationale is developed to explain these results... - Exploring race variations in aging and personal controlB A Shaw
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 2029, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 56:S119-24. 2001.... - Stress and the devaluation of highly salient roles in late lifeN Krause
School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:S99-108. 1999..To see whether older adults cope with stress in highly salient roles by devaluing the importance of the role in which the event emerged... - Physical workload, work intensification, and prevalence of pain in low wage workers: results from a participatory research project with hotel room cleaners in Las VegasNiklas Krause
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94804, USA
Am J Ind Med 48:326-37. 2005..This study assesses the prevalence of back and neck pain, and its associations with physical workload, ergonomic problems, and increasing work demands... - The prevalence of and risk factors for back pain among home care nursing personnel in Hong KongKin Cheung
School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Am J Ind Med 49:14-22. 2006..Am. J. Ind. Med. 49:14-22, 2006. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc... - Observational stress factors and musculoskeletal disorders in urban transit operatorsBirgit A Greiner
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
J Occup Health Psychol 11:38-51. 2006..44) after controlling for confounders. Five barrier categories had at least 1 significant association with outcomes. Results provide specific intervention targets by avoiding common method variance bias... - Alexithymia and 7.5-year incidence of compensated low back pain in 1207 urban public transit operatorsWolf E Mehling
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Psychosom Res 62:667-74. 2007..We assessed the association of alexithymia with 7.5-year incidence of LBP prospectively in a cohort study of 1207 San Francisco transit operators... - Occupational physical activity, energy expenditure and 11-year progression of carotid atherosclerosisNiklas Krause
Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station, Richmond CA 94804, USA
Scand J Work Environ Health 33:405-24. 2007..This study prospectively assessed the effects of occupational physical activity on atherosclerosis progression... 
Associations between psychological demands, decision latitude, and job strain with smoking in female hotel room cleaners in Las VegasReiner Rugulies
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen
Int J Behav Med 15:34-43. 2008..Little is known of the impact of the work environment on smoking among women holding low-paid jobs in the service sector...- Job strain, iso-strain, and the incidence of low back and neck injuries. A 7.5-year prospective study of San Francisco transit operatorsReiner Rugulies
National Institute of Occupational Health, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Soc Sci Med 61:27-39. 2005..Since reviews have shown that psychosocial workplace conditions in this occupational group can be changed, these findings indicate a potential for prevention at the workplace... - Are difficulties perceiving and expressing emotions associated with low-back pain? The relationship between lack of emotional awareness (alexithymia) and 12-month prevalence of low-back pain in 1180 urban public transit operatorsWolf E Mehling
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Campus Box 1726, 1701 Divisadero, 150, San Francisco, CA 94143 1726, USA
J Psychosom Res 58:73-81. 2005..To assess the association of alexithymia (deficit in emotional awareness) with 12-month prevalence of low back pain (LBP) cross-sectionally in a cohort study of 1180 San Francisco transit operators... - Readiness for return to work following injury or illness: conceptualizing the interpersonal impact of health care, workplace, and insurance factorsRenee Louise Franche
Institute for Work and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Occup Rehabil 12:233-56. 2002..This link between the two models needs to be empirically tested in future research... - Alcohol consumption and incidence of workers' compensation claims: a 5-year prospective study of urban transit operatorsDavid R Ragland
School of Public Health, University of California, Barkeley, California 94720 7360, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 26:1388-94. 2002..Numerous studies have linked alcohol impairment on the job to occupational injury. Few studies have looked at the association of nonwork drinking and occupational injury... - Occupational stressors and hypertension: a multi-method study using observer-based job analysis and self-reports in urban transit operatorsBirgit A Greiner
University College Cork, Epidemiology and Public Health, Distillery House, North Mall Cork, Ireland
Soc Sci Med 59:1081-94. 2004..We feel that multi-method studies are useful for disentangling the relations between objective and subjective stress and hypertension... - Physical workload, ergonomic problems, and incidence of low back injury: a 7.5-year prospective study of San Francisco transit operatorsNiklas Krause
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94804, USA
Am J Ind Med 46:570-85. 2004..The etiologic role of biomechanical factors for low back injury (LBI) needs to be confirmed in prospective studies that control for psychosocial factors... - Work-related pain and injury and barriers to workers' compensation among Las Vegas hotel room cleanersTeresa Scherzer
Occupational Epidemiology Program, University of California, San Francisco, 1301 S 46th St, Bldg 163, Richmond, CA 94804, USA
Am J Public Health 95:483-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The reasons for underreporting and the extent of claim denial warrant further investigation. Implications for worker health and the precise quantification of shifting costs to workers also should be addressed... - Early healthcare provider communication with patients and their workplace following a lost-time claim for an occupational musculoskeletal injuryAgnieszka Kosny
Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Occup Rehabil 16:27-39. 2006..09; adjusted OR=1.72, 95% CI=0.83-3.58). INTERPRETATION: Our study lends support to the HCP playing an active role early in the RTW process, one that includes direct contact with the workplace and proactive communication with the patient... - Risk factors predicting hip pain in a 5-year prospective cohort studyFinn Tuchsen
Department of Occupational Health Surveillance and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Work Environ Health 29:35-9. 2003..The aim of the study was to identify and quantify risk factors for hip pain... - The impact of a worker health study on working conditionsPam Tau Lee
Labor Occupational Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th Floor, Berkeley, California 94720-5120, USA
J Public Health Policy 23:268-85. 2002..The project can serve as a model for worker and union participation in academic research, as well as for the application of research to improving working conditions, particularly for low-wage immigrant workers... - Low-back pain definitions in occupational studies were categorized for a meta-analysis using Delphi consensus methodsLauren E Griffith
Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, HSC 3H57, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3A5
J Clin Epidemiol 60:625-33. 2007..To determine which literature-based definitions of low back pain (LBP) could be combined to produce sufficiently similar sets for use in a meta-analysis...
Research Grants
- LOW BACK PAIN: PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL JOB FACTORSNiklas Krause; Fiscal Year: 2001..abstract_text> ..
- Occupational Physical Activity and Circulatory DiseasesNiklas Krause; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..