Job strain and the risk of disability pension due to musculoskeletal disorders, depression or coronary heart disease: a prospective cohort study of 69 842 employees

Abstract

High job strain is a risk factor for disability pension due to musculoskeletal diseases.

Psychosocial working conditions, occupational groups, and risk of disability pension due to mental diagnoses: a cohort study of 43 000 Swedish twins

“…This would be a sign that factors shared by the twins, for instance family socioeconomic status, are of importance for those associations. In contrast with a recent Finnish study (54), which also applied a JEM to the data and found an association between high job strain and DP due to depression among women (HR 1.24, 95% CI 1.00-1.53), there was no such association in our study. This contrast may be due to differences in study designs and participants; that is, the Finnish study was based on municipal workers with shorter follow-up time (five years), only included one mental diagnosis (ie, depression), and did not take account of familial confounding.…”

Effort–reward imbalance as a risk factor for disability pension: the Finnish Public Sector Study

“…Depression and musculoskeletal diseases are the two leading causes of disability pensions worldwide (3,16,17). High job strain has been shown to associate with all-cause disability pension (18)(19)(20), while as regards diagnosis-specific disability pension, consistent associations have been found with disability pension due to musculoskeletal diseases, although not with depression or coronary heart disease (21). High ERI or the components of ERI (ie, efforts and rewards) have been associated with ill health-related early exit from working life (22), early-retirement intentions (23), and all-cause disability pension (24).…”

“…IHD was included because the evidence on the association between work stress and coronary heart diseases is consistent (12). In addition to self-assessed ERI, we used aggregated work unit-level scores to measure ERI, an effective way to maximize the independence between the exposure and the outcome (9,21,(25)(26)(27).…”

Work-related psychosocial and mechanical risk factors for work disability: a 3-year follow-up study of the general working population in Norway

“…Low job control at work (eg, little influence on the work situation and decision authority) appears to be the most consistent work-related psychosocial risk factor (10)(11)(12)(13)(14). Some studies have indicated that job strain (15,16), lack of social support (8,17), and job demands (14) may be important. However, other studies have not supported these associations (18,19).…”