Fatigue and psychological distress in the working population

Bültmann, Ute; Kant, IJmert; Kasl, Stanislav V.; Beurskens, Anna; Brandt, Piet A. van den

doi:10.1016/s0022-3999(01)00228-8

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“…Due to better health status it may be easier to perform selfmanagement activities, which may result in less diabetes symptoms. In addition to the inability to draw causal conclusions, the results of this study may be limited due to the relatively high non-response, although the response rate is comparable to those found in other studies on related topics [39,40]. Therefore, we assume that generalizability of results will not be more problematic here than in other studies.…”

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confidence: 62%

Frequency and perceived burden of diabetes self-management activities in employees with insulin-treated diabetes: relationships with health outcomes

Weijman

Ros

Rutten

et al. 2005

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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We explored the relationship between frequency and perceived burden of different self-management activities and HbA 1c %, symptoms of diabetes, fatigue, depression, and quality of life in 292 employees between 30 and 60 years of age with insulin-treated diabetes. Participants completed questionnaires that assess self-management and health-related variables. t-Tests were performed for type 1 (DM1) and type 2 diabetes (DM2) separately to compare the mean health scores of individuals who frequently or infrequently perform self-management activities and who do or do not perceive this as a burden. Participants frequently perform their self-management activities, particularly injection of insulin (96.1%), following dietary guidelines (70.8%) and eating regularly (65.6%). Dietary self-management is most often seen as a burden (70.4%), while injecting insulin is seen as least burdensome (12.8%). The perceived burden of self-management is more strongly related to health than the frequency of self-management. Frequency of self-management especially relates to HbA 1c % in DM1. People with DM2 who frequently follow the dietary guidelines have more positive health outcomes. Participants who perceive dietary self-management and injecting insulin as a burden have more negative health outcomes. Because different relationships were found between frequency and perceived burden of self-management and health

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 62%

Frequency and perceived burden of diabetes self-management activities in employees with insulin-treated diabetes: relationships with health outcomes

Weijman

Ros

Rutten

et al. 2005

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

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“…Using this cut-off point, workers with a total CIS score higher than 76 for total CIS score are considered as probable fatigue cases, with a fatigue level that can be indicated as putting the employee at risk for sick leave or work disability. Bultmann et al showed that the prevalence of fatigue in the working population is 21.9% 29) . According to the cutoff scores of BDI-II, Kojima et al reported that 80.7% of the participants scored in the minimal range (0-13) for depression in the working population 21) .…”

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confidence: 99%

Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population

Aratake

Tanaka

Wada

et al. 2007

Journal of Occupational Health

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Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population: Yutaka Aratake, et al. Department of Occupational Mental Healthl, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kitasato University—The aims of the present study were to develop and validate the Japanese version of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) which is used to measure prolonged fatigue not only in the general population but also in the working population. We obtained permission to use CIS from its author and translated the questionnaire into Japanese. Then, the Japanese version of the questionnaire was translated back into English by a bilingual person. The author of the original version agreed that the back‐translated version was conceptually and linguistically equivalent to the original CIS. To validate CIS, 399 workers (66.7% were men) from different companies answered the Japanese version of the CIS (CIS‐J), Maslach burnout inventory‐general survey (MBI‐GS), Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II), visual analogue scale (VAS) questionnaires for subjective fatigue, number of overtime hours and number of hours of sleep. Cronbach's α for the total CIS‐J score was 0.91. The test‐retest reliability assessed with an intra‐class correlation coefficient was 0.82. Although confirmatory factor analysis did not show an ideal model fit, the correlation coefficients between the total CIS score and the MBI‐GS exhaustion score, the BDI‐II score and the VAS score were 0.58 (p<0.01), 0.66 (p<0.01) and 0.63 (p<0.01), respectively. The less workers slept and the longer they worked, the higher their total CIS score became. CIS‐J showed good reliability and acceptable validity in the working population. Thus, it could be useful for studying fatigue among Japanese working populations.

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“…Prolonged fatigue is associated with impairments comparable to chronic medical conditions, and may affect the individual's performance and functioning in the occupational as well as home setting (BÜLTMANN et al 2002;BÜLTMANN et al 2003;JONG et al 2003;HULST et al 2006;JANSSEN et al 2003). Mental fatigue is defi ned and operationalised in various ways, for example in terms of increased sleepiness, reduced alertness, reduction in motivation, reduction in activity, and reduction in concentration (JANSSEN et al 2003;TARIS et al 2006).…”

Section: Mental Fatiguementioning

confidence: 99%

The Determinants of Teachers’ Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Mental Fatigue

Guglielmi¹,

Panari²,

Simbula³

2012

EJMH

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In recent years, many studies have focused on the determinants and consequences of teacher stress. One of the most recent theoretical models concerning stress is the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. This study examines one process -namely the energetic process -which supposes that high job demands exhaust employees' mental and physical resources and therefore cause ill health. Particularly, this study examines the mediating role of mental fatigue between three job demands of teachers (workload, inequity and work/family confl ict) and three consequences of stress: psychological and physical symptoms and work satisfaction. An Italian version of the selfreport Questionnaire for Psychosocial Work Environment and Stress (PWSQ) was administered to 697 teachers belonging to a random sample of 17 school organizations. The results showed that mental fatigue has a mediating role in the relationship between work/family confl ict and the three outcomes considered, namely psychological and physical symptoms, and work satisfaction. This study has an important implication for intervention strategy because mental fatigue is a pre-strain condition which arises before more intense outcomes, such as stress-related diseases occur. Identifi cation of this condition allows prevention of the consequences of stress. Keywords

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Fatigue and psychological distress in the working population

Cited by 254 publications

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Frequency and perceived burden of diabetes self-management activities in employees with insulin-treated diabetes: relationships with health outcomes

Frequency and perceived burden of diabetes self-management activities in employees with insulin-treated diabetes: relationships with health outcomes

Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population

The Determinants of Teachers’ Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Mental Fatigue

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