Work-related stress, inability to relax after work and risk of adult asthma: A population-based cohort study

Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1298-1305

  Loerbroks, A ^a   Gadinger, M C ^a   Bosch, J A ^a,b   Sturmer T ^c   Amelang, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

asthma; cohort study; Germany; psychological stress; work place

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BODY MASS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOB STRESS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE; RELAXATION; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956444154     PISSN: 01054538     EISSN: 13989995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2010.02375.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Chida Y, Hamer M, Steptoe A. A bidirectional relationship between psychosocial factors and atopic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychosom Med 2008 70 : 102 116.
2. Loerbroks A, Apfelbacher CJ, Bosch JA, Stürmer T. Depressive symptoms, social support and risk of adult asthma in a population-based cohort study. Psychosom Med 2010 72 : 309 315.
3. Jonas B, Wagener D, Lando J, Feldman J. Symptoms of anxiety and depression as risk factors for development of asthma. J Appl Biobehav Res 1999 4 : 91 119.
4. Loerbroks A, Apfelbacher CJ, Thayer JF, Debling D, Stürmer T. Neuroticism, extraversion, stressful life events and asthma: a cohort study of middle-aged adults. Allergy 2009 64 : 1444 1450.
5. Wainwright NW, Surtees PG, Wareham NJ, Harrison BD. Psychosocial factors and incident asthma hospital admissions in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study. Allergy 2007 62 : 554 560.
6. Huovinen E, Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M. Asthma in relation to personality traits, life satisfaction, and stress: a prospective study among 11,000 adults. Allergy 2001 56 : 971 977.
7. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Fourth European Working Conditions Survey. Available at: http://www.eurofound. eu.int/pubdocs/2006/78/en/1/ef0678en.pdf (Accessed 1 October 2009).
8. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Stress at work. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/99-101/ (Accessed 1 October 2009).
9. Chandola T, Brunner E, Marmot M. Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study. BMJ 2006 332 : 521 525.
10. Rosengren A, Hawken S, Ounpuu S, Sliwa K, Zubaid M, Almahmeed WA et al. Association of psychosocial risk factors with risk of acute myocardial infarction in 11119 cases and 13648 controls from 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study. Lancet 2004 364 : 953 962.
11. Heraclides A, Chandola T, Witte DR, Brunner EJ. Psychosocial stress at work doubles the risk of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged women: evidence from the Whitehall II study. Diabetes Care 2009 32 : 2230 2235.
12. Siegrist J. Chronic psychosocial stress at work and risk of depression: evidence from prospective studies. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2008 258 (Suppl 5 115 119.
13. Melchior M, Caspi A, Milne BJ, Danese A, Poulton R, Moffitt TE. Work stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men. Psychol Med 2007 37 : 1119 1129.
14. Kogevinas M, Zock JP, Jarvis D, Kromhout H, Lillienberg L, Plana E et al. Exposure to substances in the workplace and new-onset asthma: an international prospective population-based study (ECRHS-II). Lancet 2007 370 : 336 341.
15. Stürmer T, Hasselbach P, Amelang M. Personality, lifestyle, and risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer: follow-up of population based cohort. BMJ 2006 332 : 1359.
16. Kaiser HF. An index of factorial simplicity. Psychometrika 1974 39 : 31 36.
17. Cohen J. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences. Hillsdale : Erlbaum, 1988.
18. Spiegelman D, Hertzmark E. Easy SAS calculations for risk or prevalence ratios and differences. Am J Epidemiol 2005 162 : 199 200.
19. Stürmer T, Joshi M, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Rothman KJ, Schneeweiss S. A review of the application of propensity score methods yielded increasing use, advantages in specific settings, but not substantially different estimates compared with conventional multivariable methods. J Clin Epidemiol 2006 59 : 437 447.
20. von Zerrsen D. Die Paranoid-Depressivitäts-Skala [The Paranoid-Depressiveness Scale]. Weinheim : Beltz, 1976.
21. Siegrist J, Wege N, Puhlhofer F, Wahrendorf M. A short generic measure of work stress in the era of globalization: effort-reward imbalance. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2009 82 : 1005 1013.
22. Kristensen TS, Hannerz H, Hogh A, Borg V. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire - a tool for the assessment and improvement of the psychosocial work environment. Scand J Work Environ Health 2005 31 : 438 449.
23. Schulz P, Schlotz W, Becker P. TICS. Trierer Inventar zur Erfassung von chronischem Stress. Manual. Göttingen : Hogrefe, 2004.
24. Maslach C, Jackson SE, Leiter MP. Maslach Burnout Inventory. Palo Alto : Consulting Psychologists Press, 1996.
25. Borritz M, Rugulies R, Bjorner JB, Villadsen E, Mikkelsen OA, Kristensen TS. Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study. Scand J Public Health 2006 34 : 49 58.
26. Udris I, Rimann M. SAA und SALSA: Zwei Fragebögen zur subjektiven Arbeitsanalyse. In : Dunckel H, editor. Handbuch psychologischer Arbeitsanalyseverfahren. Zürich : vdf Hochschulverlag, 1999 : 397 419.
27. Toren K, Brisman J, Jarvholm B. Asthma and asthma-like symptoms in adults assessed by questionnaires. A literature review. Chest 1993 104 : 600 608.
28. Marklund B, Tunsater A, Bengtsson C. How often is the diagnosis bronchial asthma correct? Fam Pract 1999 16 : 112 116.
29. Copeland KT, Checkoway H, McMichael AJ, Holbrook RH. Bias due to misclassification in the estimation of relative risk. Am J Epidemiol 1977 105 : 488 495.
30. Lallukka T, Lahelma E, Rahkonen O, Roos E, Laaksonen E, Martikainen P et al. Associations of job strain and working overtime with adverse health behaviors and obesity: evidence from the Whitehall II Study, Helsinki Health Study, and the Japanese Civil Servants Study. Soc Sci Med 2008 66 : 1681 1698.
31. Miller G, Chen E, Cole SW. Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. Annu Rev Psychol 2009 60 : 501 524.
32. Wright RJ. Stress and atopic disorders. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2005 116 : 1301 1306.
33. Buske-Kirschbaum A, Hellhammer DH. Endocrine and immune responses to stress in chronic inflammatory skin disorders. Ann NY Acad Sci 2003 992 : 231 240.
34. Bellingrath S, Kudielka BM. Effort-reward-imbalance and overcommitment are associated with hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to acute psychosocial stress in healthy working schoolteachers. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008 33 : 1335 1343.
35. Collins SM, Karasek RA, Costas K. Job strain and autonomic indices of cardiovascular disease risk. Am J Ind Med 2005 48 : 182 193.
36. Melamed S, Shirom A, Toker S, Berliner S, Shapira I. Burnout and risk of cardiovascular disease: evidence, possible causal paths, and promising research directions. Psychol Bull 2006 132 : 327 353.
37. Adkinson F, Busse WW, Bochner BS, Holgate ST, Simons FER, Lemanske RF. Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2007.