Still healthy after extended work hours? ten hours shift, twenty-one days working period for tunnel workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 804-810

  Waage, Siri ^a,b   Odeen, Magnus ^b   Bjorvatn, Bjørn ^a   Eriksen, Hege R ^a,b   Ursin, Holger ^b   Hollund, Bjørg Eli ^c   Moen, Bente Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health; Self reports; Shift work; Work hours

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650613413     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1149     Document Type: Article

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