WHO/ILO work-related burden of disease and injury: Protocol for systematic reviews of exposure to long working hours and of the effect of exposure to long working hours on depression

WHO/ILO work-related burden of disease and injury: Protocol for systematic reviews of exposure to long working hours and of the effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease

“…Systematic Review 1: To systematically review quantitative studies of any design on the prevalence of relevant levels of exposure to long working hours in the years 2005 to among the working-age population, disaggregated by country, sex, age and industrial sector or occupation. Systematic Review 1 will be conducted in a coordinated fashion across all four review groups that examine long working hours with regard to health endpoints (ischaemic heart disease, stroke 6 , depression 11 and alcohol use 10 ), led by GS and with JL being the focal point from the working group on long working hours and ischaemic heart disease. 2.…”

“…Study records written in any language will be included. If a study record is written in a language other than those spoken by the authors of this review or those of other reviews [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] in the series (i.e. Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish), it will be translated into English.…”

“…title and abstract) in English will be included. If a record is written in a language other than those spoken by the authors of this review or those of other reviews in the series [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] , then the record will be translated into English. Published and unpublished studies will be included.…”

“…To optimize parameters used in estimation models, a systematic review is required of studies on the prevalence of exposure to long working hours ('Systematic Review 1'), as well as a second systematic review and meta-analysis of studies with estimates of the effect of exposure to long work hours on ischaemic heart disease ('Systematic Review 2'). In the current paper, we present the protocol for these two systematic reviews, in parallel to presenting systematic review protocols on other additional risk factor-outcome pairs elsewhere [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] . To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review protocol of its kind.…”

“…The findings from Systematic Reviews 1 and 2 will be reported in two distinct journal articles. For all four protocols in the series with long working hours as the risk factor 6,10,11,14 , one Systematic Review 1 will be published.…”