Working conditions in the explanation of occupational inequalities in sickness absence in the French SUMER study

Niedhammer, Isabelle; Lesuffleur, Thécla; Memmi, Sarah; Chastang, Jean-François

doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckx052

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“…Ethical approval was granted by the French ethics committees. Our team has already published a large number of studies using the previous versions of the SUMER survey, and a selection of these publications are presented in the references [14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Working conditions and depression in the French national working population: Results from the SUMER study

Niedhammer

Coindre

Memmi

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Objectives The objectives were to explore the associations between various types of occupational exposures and depression in the French national working population, most of the studies in the literature focussing on a limited number of exposures and on symptom scales. Methods The study was based on a nationally representative sample of 25,977 employees, 14,682 men and 11,295 women. Depression was measured using the PHQ-9 instrument and algorithm. Occupational exposures included factors related to both the psychosocial and physical work environment. Weighted logistic regression analyses were performed to study the associations between exposures and outcome with adjustment for covariates among men and women separately. Results The prevalence of depression was higher for women than for men (5.70% versus 3.78%). The final models showed that low decision latitude, low reward, bullying, workfamily and ethical conflicts for both genders, and high psychological demands, low social support, and long working hours among women were risk factors for depression. No occupational exposure of physical, biomechanical, chemical and biological nature was associated with depression. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness of the results. Conclusions Significant associations were found between psychosocial work exposures and depression, and there were some differences in these associations between genders. This study is one of the first to provide a comprehensive overview of occupational exposures in association with depression. More prevention towards the psychosocial work environment is needed to improve mental health of working populations.

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Working conditions and depression in the French national working population: Results from the SUMER study

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Coindre

Memmi

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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“…With physical working conditions being one of the main factors in explaining differences in SA between occupational groups, this is important 18 . Moreover, psychosocial working conditions have been shown to influence the association between occupational groups and SA 19 …”

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The association between part-time and temporary employment and sickness absence: a prospective Swedish twin study

Helgadóttir

Svedberg

Mather

et al. 2018

European Journal of Public Health

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“…Thus, prolonged exposure from carrying heavy loads can potentially cause an irreversible deformation of these tissues ("memory of the exposure" or "creep phenomenon"), which may explain the fact that, in older age groups, some MSD have not decreased despite decreased biomechanical exposures. Moreover, a decrease in occupational physical constraints may have arisen concomitantly with an increase in work-related mental load, which can also play a significant role in the occurrence of MSD (8,43).…”

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Can we distinguish the roles of demographic and temporal changes in the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders? A systematic review

Bouziri¹,

Descatha²,

Dab³

et al. 2022

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Can we distinguish the roles of demographic and temporal changes in the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders? A systematic review by Bouziri H, Descatha A, Roquelaure Y, Dab W, Jean K Exposure to biomechanical, organizational and psychosocial factors changes over time, which implies that they have not necessarily been the same throughout a lifetime. To understand the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), it is necessary to disentangle the respective role of these changes and age. This review highlighted a scarcity of evidence regarding time trends in the burden of MSDs and their underlying causes.

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Working conditions in the explanation of occupational inequalities in sickness absence in the French SUMER study

Abstract: Preventive measures at the workplace oriented towards low-skilled occupational groups and both psychosocial work factors and other occupational exposures may be beneficial to reduce sickness absence spells and occupational differences in this outcome.

Cited by 19 publications

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Working conditions and depression in the French national working population: Results from the SUMER study

Working conditions and depression in the French national working population: Results from the SUMER study

The association between part-time and temporary employment and sickness absence: a prospective Swedish twin study

Can we distinguish the roles of demographic and temporal changes in the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders? A systematic review

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