Effect of informal employment on the relationship between psychosocial work risk factors and musculoskeletal pain in Central American workers

Porras, David Gimeno Ruiz de; Garbanzo, Marianela Rojas; Aragón, Aurora; Milián, Lino Carmenate; Benavides, Fernando G.

doi:10.1136/oemed-2016-103881

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“…In the future, it will be important to study whether these relationships hold in other Latin American agricultural businesses, especially small and medium sized companies that may not have similar levels of health promotion policies and programs. Perhaps more importantly, these relationships should be investigated in the large informal economy in Latin America ( 54 ). In doing so, it will be important to understand whether JD-Rs interact in their effect on work engagement and overall health.…”

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Latin American Agricultural Workers' Job Demands and Resources and the Association With Health Behaviors at Work and Overall Health

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Jaramillo

Dally

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Front. Public Health

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In the present study, we describe the job demands and job resources (JD-R) experienced by agricultural workers in three Latin American countries and their relationship to proactive health behaviors at work and overall health. Following previous research on the JD-R model, we hypothesized that job demands (H1) would be negatively related to agricultural workers' self-reported overall health. On the other hand, we hypothesized that job resources (H2) would be positively related to agricultural workers' overall health. Furthermore, we hypothesized (H3) that workers' engagement in jobsite health promotion practices via their proactive health behaviors at work would partially mediate the relationship between workers' job resources and job demands and overall health. We also had a research question (R1) about whether there were differences by type of job held. The sample of workers who participated in this study (N = 1,861) worked in Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua for one large agribusiness that produces sugar cane. They worked in two distinct areas: company administration and agricultural operations. We administered employee health and safety culture surveys using survey methods tailored to meet the needs of both types of workers. Stratified path analysis models were used to test study hypotheses. In general, we found support for hypotheses 1 and 2. For example, operations workers reported more physically demanding jobs and administrative workers reported more work-related stress. Regardless, the existence of high job demands was associated with poorer overall health amongst both types of workers. We found that workers in more health-supportive work environments perform more proactive health behaviors at work, regardless of their role within the organization. However, hypothesis 3 was not supported as proactive health behaviors at work was not associated with overall health. We discuss future research needs in terms of evaluating these hypotheses amongst workers employed by small- and medium-sized agribusinesses as well as those in the informal economy in Latin America. We also discuss important implications for agribusinesses seeking to develop health promotion programs that meet the needs of all workers.

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Latin American Agricultural Workers' Job Demands and Resources and the Association With Health Behaviors at Work and Overall Health

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Jaramillo

Dally

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“…Our study found higher psychosocial risk factors in the informally employed, something common in studies about informal employment. 11,16 Based on the framework described by Muntaner, working conditions are conditioned by employment relations, which are the relationships between employers and employees. 15 The informally employed, due to the nature of their informal arrangements, presumably have little participation directly or by organized groups like unions.…”

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“…14,15 Informal employment has also been related to higher exposures of ergonomic, psychosocial, and other occupational hazards in middle-and low-income countries. 8,9,16 Furthermore, worse psychological conditions have been found in a study addressing the working conditions of the informally employed compared to the formally employed in high-income countries. 11 Despite the hazardous working conditions found, there is not a specific framework for informal employment to study employment conditions and health.…”

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Association Between Informal Employment and Health Status and the Role of the Working Conditions in Spain

2020

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Informal employment is an employment condition in which workers are not protected by labor regulations. It has been associated with poor health status in middle- and low-income countries, but it is still a neglected issue in high-income countries. Our aim was to estimate the association between health status and employment profiles in Spain, attending to the role of workplace risk factors. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 8,060 workers from the Seventh Spanish Working Conditions Survey (2011). We defined 4 employment profiles and estimated the associations between them and poor self-perceived health using Poisson regression models. All analyses were stratified by sex. The prevalence of the informal profile was 4% for women and 1.5% for men. Differences in self-perceived health status among employment profiles were negligible. Only women engaged in informal employment had poorer self-perceived health than those in the reference profile. This difference disappeared after adjusting models for psychosocial risk factors. In conclusion, we did not find differences in self-perceived health status between employment profiles, except for women in informal employment. Efforts should be made to improve the psychosocial risk factors in women in informal employment.

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“…In women, low levels of work‐family conflict and supervisor support worked together to lower psychosocial work hazards, but in men, a combination of high physical demands and relatively high work‐family conflict was linked to higher levels of psychosocial work hazards (Weale et al, 2021). However, for both formal and informal teachers, the correlations between exposure to psychosocial work risk variables and the prevalence of work‐related disorders were similar (Gimeno Ruiz De Porras et al, 2017). According to several work organization models, gender was not significantly connected to exposure to psychosocial elements at work and in work‐related health (Migliore et al, 2021).…”

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Structural equation modeling of the influence of primary school teachers' demographics on their psychosocial work hazards

Okeke

2022

Journal Community Psychology

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Most workers, especially teachers experience one form of psychosocial work hazards or the other. In the Nigerian context, there is a high prevalence of psychosocial work hazards and no study has been conducted to ascertain the influence of teachers’ demographics on their psychosocial work hazards. This study explored the influence of primary school teachers’ demographics on their psychosocial work hazards using the structural equation modeling approach. Drawing from the tenets of Job‐Demand‐Control‐Support theory, a correlational survey research design was used, using a sample of 254 primary school teachers, and the study was based on a quantitative research approach. The study's data were gathered utilizing a 28‐item questionnaire adapted from the 30‐item Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire developed by Kristensen and coworkers in 2005. The internal consistency reliability index of the questionnaire items was 0.74. The data were analyzed using a combination of frequency, percentage, chi‐square test of independent samples, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and structural equation modeling. It was revealed that demographic characteristics of teachers correlated with their psychosocial work hazards. However, it was found that only the age and location of the teachers had significant (p < .05) relationships with their psychosocial work hazards. The age and location of the teachers are significant determinants of their psychosocial work hazards. This our findings call for more research on the subject matter as some recent studies have documented that other demographics of teachers had significant relationships with psychosocial work hazards. It was therefore recommended that teachers’ demographics should be considered as important factors in the recruitment of teachers.

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Effect of informal employment on the relationship between psychosocial work risk factors and musculoskeletal pain in Central American workers

Abstract: Exposure to adverse levels of psychosocial work risk factors is associated with higher prevalence of MPS among both formal and informal workers. However, the role of employment informality in this association is complex and requires further examination.

Cited by 11 publications

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Latin American Agricultural Workers' Job Demands and Resources and the Association With Health Behaviors at Work and Overall Health

Latin American Agricultural Workers' Job Demands and Resources and the Association With Health Behaviors at Work and Overall Health

Association Between Informal Employment and Health Status and the Role of the Working Conditions in Spain

Structural equation modeling of the influence of primary school teachers' demographics on their psychosocial work hazards

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