Work, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease

Schnall, Peter L.; Dobson, Marnie; Landsbergis, Paul

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“…Several research studies have found that stress at work is associated with cardiovascular diseases [4], musculoskeletal diseases [5], immunological problems [6], and problems with mental health such as anxiety and depression disorders [7]. In regard to organizational well-being, a decline of physical and mental health of workers has been reported in Paoli et al [8], leading to a decrease in the performance, decrease in overall productivity of organization and increased cost in terms of absenteeism.…”

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Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Garcia-Ceja¹,

Osmani²,

Mayora³

2016

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.

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Abstract-Increase in workload across many organisations and consequent increase in occupational stress is negatively affecting the health of the workforce. Measuring stress and other human psychological dynamics is difficult due to subjective nature of selfreporting and variability between and within individuals. With the advent of smartphones it is now possible to monitor diverse aspects of human behaviour, including objectively measured behaviour related to psychological state and consequently stress. We have used data from the smartphone's built-in accelerometer to detect behaviour that correlates with subjects stress levels. Accelerometer sensor was chosen because it raises fewer privacy concerns (in comparison to location, video or audio recording, for example) and because its low power consumption makes it suitable to be embedded in smaller wearable devices, such as fitness trackers. 30 subjects from two different organizations were provided with smartphones. The study lasted for 8 weeks and was conducted in real working environments, with no constraints whatsoever placed upon smartphone usage. The subjects reported their perceived stress levels three times during their working hours. Using combination of statistical models to classify self reported stress levels, we achieved a maximum overall accuracy of 71% for user-specific models and an accuracy of 60% for the use of similar-users models, relying solely on data from a single accelerometer.

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Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Garcia-Ceja¹,

Osmani²,

Mayora³

2016

IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform.

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146

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“…In recent years, work overload, inducing cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), has become a global epidemic issue [1,2]. Globalization has fostered socioeconomic changes, demographic transitions, and rapid industrialization, leading to various occupational classes suffering from attacks of CVDs [3,4,5,6]. The annual number of CVD-related deaths is projected to increase from 17 million in 2008 to 25 million by 2030 [7].…”

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Significant Impacts of Work-Related Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Diseases among Young Workers: A Nationwide Analysis

Hsu

Wang

Bai

2019

IJERPH

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Background: While occupational factors linked to the onset of cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been reported among workers, much remains unknown about the impacts that occupation has on the onset of CVDs in various age groups. We attempted to describe temporal trends in total and work-related CVDs (WRCVDs) rates stratified by age and year and explore the relative contributions of work to the CVD risk. Methods: This study was conducted using two populations from the Labor Insurance Database as the working population and the National Health Insurance Research Database as the general population. We included all people aged 15–75 years from 2006 to 2013. All CVD events and WRCVD events were identified. A Poisson regression was used to estimate the morbidity rate ratio (RR) stratified by age and period, and an RR adjusted for residual confounding was also used. Results: Incident CVD rates increased with aging in the general population (from 1113.55 to 1853.32 per 100,000 persons), and WRCVD rates increased in the working population over time (from 2.10 in 2006 to 8.60 in 2013 per 100,000 persons). In the age and period analysis, CVD attacks showed disparities in different populations. The RR of the WRCVD risk was mainly in the working population aged >45 years, and the RR of the CVD risk occurred in the oldest group (aged 55–64 years) of the general population. The population-attributable risk of working exposure was 13.5%. After eliminating residual confounding factors, higher population attributed risk (PAR) work-related excessive CVD risk mainly occurred in workers aged 25–34 and 35–44 years. A decreasing PAR trend was found in the age groups as follows: 15–24, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, and 55–64 years, with percentages of 17.64%, 16.89%, 16.46%, 10.6%, and 0.65%, respectively. Conclusions: There is evidence that period and age trends of CVD rates differed between the working population and general population. Relative effects attributed to work were more severe in younger workers, particularly in workers aged <55 years.

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“…These trends should concern employers since worker health problems undermine productivity (Albrecht, ; Harter, Schmidt, & Keyes, ; Wright & Cropanzano, ), including: physical inactivity (Boles, Pelletier, & Lynch, ); employee substance misuse (Frone, ; Roche et al., ); prescription drug misuse (Van Hasselt, Keyes, Bray, & Miller, ); anxiety (Marciniak, Lage, Landbloom, Dunayevich, & Bowman, ); and depression (Goetzel et al., ; Kessler et al., ). Workplace stress is especially detrimental to both employee health and productivity (Gilboa, Shirom, Fried, & Cooper, ; Pfeffer, ; Schwatka et al., ; Stansfeld & Candy, ), has been linked to cardiovascular disease (Schnall, Dobson, & Landsbergis, ), costs U.S. employers more than $300 billion annually, and causes an estimated 120,000 excess deaths each year (Pfeffer, ).…”

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Integral Organizational Wellness^™: An evidence‐based model of socially inspired well‐being

Bennett

2018

J Appl Biobehavioral Res

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for her assistance in manuscript preparation.Evidence indicates that our relationships with coworkers and supervisors significantly influence our health and well-being. The field of workplace health promotion-historically and currently-either ignores or fails to leverage insights from this evidence. In ways similar to individuals who look for a "magic pill" or diet to fix a health problem, employers also seek quick, external answers to health problems in their workforce. The current paper describes the development of an integral model to guide employers, researchers, and consultants in health promotion efforts.The paper is divided into three parts, from a broad perspective (Part 1) to the development of the model (Part 2) to providing specific empirical examples of the model in action (Part 3). Part 1 explains why integrative efforts are necessary and how they can work. Part 2 describes features of the model and shows how they are currently being utilized by employers but without integration. Part 3 reviews empirical interventions developed by my colleagues and I over the past 20 years. These are designed to impact one of five leverage points in work settings: leadership development; team training; well-being champions; climate assessments and surveys; and linking employee assistance (EAP) and wellness services.BENNETT inspired well-being: employee wellness, organizational development, and efforts to prevent mental health problems/substance abuse (e.g., employee assistance programs).Unfortunately, these three practices typically operate in isolation, and ignore important social relationships among employees. Wellness programs tend to address individual-level physical health symptoms, neglecting underlying risks, and opportunities in the work culture. Organizational development (OD) and leadership programs often target broad-scale culture changes that only have a distal impact on employee health. Mental health/substance use issues are typically addressed through socially removed (external, third-party) employee assistance programs (EAP) and related health benefits.

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Work, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease

Cited by 9 publications

References 164 publications

Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Significant Impacts of Work-Related Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Diseases among Young Workers: A Nationwide Analysis

Integral Organizational Wellness^™: An evidence‐based model of socially inspired well‐being

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Work, Stress, and Cardiovascular Disease

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Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Automatic Stress Detection in Working Environments From Smartphones’ Accelerometer Data: A First Step

Significant Impacts of Work-Related Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Diseases among Young Workers: A Nationwide Analysis

Integral Organizational Wellness™: An evidence‐based model of socially inspired well‐being

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