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Job strain as a risk factor for leisure-time physical inactivity: an individual-participant meta-analysis of up to 170,000 men and women: the IPD-Work Consortium.


ABSTRACT: Unfavorable work characteristics, such as low job control and too high or too low job demands, have been suggested to increase the likelihood of physical inactivity during leisure time, but this has not been verified in large-scale studies. The authors combined individual-level data from 14 European cohort studies (baseline years from 1985-1988 to 2006-2008) to examine the association between unfavorable work characteristics and leisure-time physical inactivity in a total of 170,162 employees (50% women; mean age, 43.5 years). Of these employees, 56,735 were reexamined after 2-9 years. In cross-sectional analyses, the odds for physical inactivity were 26% higher (odds ratio = 1.26, 95% confidence interval: 1.15, 1.38) for employees with high-strain jobs (low control/high demands) and 21% higher (odds ratio = 1.21, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 1.31) for those with passive jobs (low control/low demands) compared with employees in low-strain jobs (high control/low demands). In prospective analyses restricted to physically active participants, the odds of becoming physically inactive during follow-up were 21% and 20% higher for those with high-strain (odds ratio = 1.21, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 1.32) and passive (odds ratio = 1.20, 95% confidence interval: 1.11, 1.30) jobs at baseline. These data suggest that unfavorable work characteristics may have a spillover effect on leisure-time physical activity.

SUBMITTER: Fransson EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3521479 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Job strain as a risk factor for leisure-time physical inactivity: an individual-participant meta-analysis of up to 170,000 men and women: the IPD-Work Consortium.

Fransson Eleonor I EI   Heikkilä Katriina K   Nyberg Solja T ST   Zins Marie M   Westerlund Hugo H   Westerholm Peter P   Väänänen Ari A   Virtanen Marianna M   Vahtera Jussi J   Theorell Töres T   Suominen Sakari S   Singh-Manoux Archana A   Siegrist Johannes J   Sabia Séverine S   Rugulies Reiner R   Pentti Jaana J   Oksanen Tuula T   Nordin Maria M   Nielsen Martin L ML   Marmot Michael G MG   Magnusson Hanson Linda L LL   Madsen Ida E H IE   Lunau Thorsten T   Leineweber Constanze C   Kumari Meena M   Kouvonen Anne A   Koskinen Aki A   Koskenvuo Markku M   Knutsson Anders A   Kittel France F   Jöckel Karl-Heinz KH   Joensuu Matti M   Houtman Irene L IL   Hooftman Wendela E WE   Goldberg Marcel M   Geuskens Goedele A GA   Ferrie Jane E JE   Erbel Raimund R   Dragano Nico N   De Bacquer Dirk D   Clays Els E   Casini Annalisa A   Burr Hermann H   Borritz Marianne M   Bonenfant Sébastien S   Bjorner Jakob B JB   Alfredsson Lars L   Hamer Mark M   Batty G David GD   Kivimäki Mika M  

American journal of epidemiology 20121109 12


Unfavorable work characteristics, such as low job control and too high or too low job demands, have been suggested to increase the likelihood of physical inactivity during leisure time, but this has not been verified in large-scale studies. The authors combined individual-level data from 14 European cohort studies (baseline years from 1985-1988 to 2006-2008) to examine the association between unfavorable work characteristics and leisure-time physical inactivity in a total of 170,162 employees (5  ...[more]

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