A cross-sectional study of the relationship between job demand-control, effort-reward imbalance and cardiovascular heart disease risk factors

BMC Public Health

Kjell Torén²  Lauren Lissner¹  Jenny Hillström²  Annika Rosengren³  Mia Söderberg² 

[1] Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 414, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden;Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Institution of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Box 414, 405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden;Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, SU/Östra, 416 85, Gothenburg, Sweden

关键词: Gender;    Effort-reward imbalance;    Job demand-control;    Cardiovascular heart disease risk factors;    Psychosocial work environment;   

Others  :  1162706
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-12-1102

 received in 2012-03-27, accepted in 2012-12-20,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

This cross-sectional study explored relationships between psychosocial work environment, captured by job demand-control (JDC) and effort-reward imbalance (ERI), and seven cardiovascular heart disease (CHD) risk factors in a general population.

Method

The sampled consists of randomly-selected men and women from Gothenburg, Sweden and the city’s surrounding metropolitan areas. Associations between psychosocial variables and biomarkers were analysed with multiple linear regression adjusted for age, smoking, education and occupational status.

Results

The study included 638 men and 668 women aged 24–71. Analysis between JDC and CHD risk factors illustrated that, for men, JDC was associated with impaired scores in several biomarkers, especially among those in high strain jobs. For women, there were no relationships between JDC and biomarkers. In the analysis of links between ERI and CHD risk factors, most associations tested null. The only findings were raised triglycerides and BMI among men in the fourth quartile of the ERI-ratio distribution, and lowered LDL-cholesterol for women. An complementary ERI analysis, combining high/low effort and reward into categories, illustrated lowered triglycerides and elevated HDL-cholesterol values among women reporting high efforts and high rewards, compared to women experiencing low effort and high reward.

Conclusions

There were some associations between psychosocial stressors and CHD risk factors. The cross-sectional design did not allow conclusions about causality but some results indicated gender differences regarding sensitivity to work stressors and also how the models might capture different psychosocial dimensions.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Söderberg et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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