The Work Organization of Long-Haul Truck Drivers and the Association With Body Mass Index

Hege, Adam; Apostolopoulos, Yorghos; Perko, Mike; Sönmez, Sevil; Strack, Robert W.

doi:10.1097/jom.0000000000000734

Cited by 25 publications

(34 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…A detailed description of the study procedures and cohort characteristics has been described previously5, 17, 43, 44 ) . This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of a university in North Carolina.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We developed the Trucker Sleep Disorders Survey (TSLDS) from insights gleaned from other key instruments, relevant sleep literature, and our previous work with truck drivers45, 46 ) . Characteristics of this survey, including questions pertaining to demographic, work organization, and sleep quality and duration which were used in this manuscript, have been described in previous manuscripts which used this same dataset5, 17, 43, 44 ) .…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Work, sleep, and cholesterol levels of U.S. long-haul truck drivers

et al. 2017

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Long-haul truck drivers in the United States experience elevated cardiovascular health risks, possibly due to hypercholesterolemia. The current study has two objectives: 1) to generate a cholesterol profile for U.S. long-haul truck drivers; and 2) to determine the influence of work organization characteristics and sleep quality and duration on cholesterol levels of long-haul truck drivers. Survey and biometric data were collected from 262 long-haul truck drivers. Descriptive analyses were performed for demographic, work organization, sleep, and cholesterol measures. Linear regression and ordinal logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine for possible predictive relationships between demographic, work organization, and sleep variables, and cholesterol outcomes. The majority (66.4%) of drivers had a low HDL (<40 mg/dL), and nearly 42% of drivers had a high-risk total cholesterol to HDL cholesterol ratio. Sleep quality was associated with HDL, LDL, and total cholesterol, and daily work hours were associated with LDL cholesterol. Workday sleep duration was associated with non-HDL cholesterol, and driving experience and sleep quality were associated with cholesterol ratio. Long-haul truck drivers have a high risk cholesterol profile, and sleep quality and work organization factors may induce these cholesterol outcomes. Targeted worksite health promotion programs are needed to curb these atherosclerotic risks.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work, sleep, and cholesterol levels of U.S. long-haul truck drivers

et al. 2017

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…CMV drivers in the United States tend to work irregular schedules and long‐haul drivers spend days away from home. The combination of poor dietary habits, irregular sleep schedules and sedentary work contributes to CMV drivers’ poor health . Drivers have high body mass indices and high prevalence of CVD risk factors, especially high blood pressure, obesity and tobacco use .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A retrospective analysis of cardiometabolic health in a large cohort of truck drivers compared to the American working population

Thiese

Hanowski

Moffitt

et al. 2017

American J Industrial Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We hypothesize that adiposity risk will be the highest in the long driving and working hour operators, particular in dense traffic areas imposing high time pressure and requiring greater TAV. Long driving and working hours were associated with obesity in recent truck driver studies [69, 70]. The Framingham 10-year coronary heart disease risk scores were significantly greater in the bus drivers who worked long hours (>12 h/day) than in those who worked regular work hours (8 h/day) in a Korean bus driver study [21].…”

Section: Development Of a New Socioecological Framework For Studying mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, long and irregular work hours can result in short or poor sleep hours that are associated with BMI among drivers [7, 69]. …”

Section: Development Of a New Socioecological Framework For Studying mentioning

confidence: 99%

A socioecological framework for research on work and obesity in diverse urban transit operators based on gender, race, and ethnicity

Choi¹,

Schnall²,

Dobson³

et al. 2017

Ann of Occup and Environ Med

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urban transit (bus and rail) operators, totaling nearly 700,000 persons, are one of the heaviest occupational groups in the United States (US). Little is known about occupational risk factors for weight gain and obesity and their interrelationship with health-related behaviors, particularly among female minority (African Americans and Hispanics) transit operators who are at greater risk for obesity. As a step towards developing successful obesity interventions among urban transit operators, this paper aims to present a new socioecological framework for studying working conditions, chronic strain, health-related behaviors, weight gain/obesity, and obesity disparity in diverse urban transit operators based on gender, race, and ethnicity. Our framework is a synthesis of several different theories and disciplines: the resource-work load model (work stress), occupational ergonomics, the theory of intersectionality, and worksite health promotion. The framework was developed utilizing an extensive literature review, results from our on-going research on obesity, input from focus groups conducted with Los Angeles transit operators as well as interviews and meetings with transit operator stakeholders (management, unions, and worksite transit wellness program), and ride-along observations. Our hypotheses highlighted in the framework (see Fig. 1) are that adverse working conditions, largely characterized as a combination of high demands and low resources, will increase the risk for weight gain/obesity among transit operators directly through chronic strain and hypothalamic dysfunction (hyper-and hypo-activations), and indirectly through health-related behaviors and injuries/chronic severe pain. We also hypothesize that the observed increase in adiposity among female minority operators is due to their greater exposure to adverse occupational and non-occupational conditions that reflect their intersecting social identities of lower social class and being a minority woman in the US. Our proposed framework could greatly facilitate future transit worksite obesity studies by clarifying the complex and important roles of adverse working conditions in the etiology of weight gain/obesity and obesity disparity among transit operators and other working populations.

show abstract

The Work Organization of Long-Haul Truck Drivers and the Association With Body Mass Index

Abstract: Findings suggest that longer work hours (>11 hours daily) have a major influence on odds for obesity among this population. The results align with recent NIOSH calls for integrated approaches to worker health.

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Work, sleep, and cholesterol levels of U.S. long-haul truck drivers

Work, sleep, and cholesterol levels of U.S. long-haul truck drivers

A retrospective analysis of cardiometabolic health in a large cohort of truck drivers compared to the American working population

A socioecological framework for research on work and obesity in diverse urban transit operators based on gender, race, and ethnicity

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About