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Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium

Fransson, EI; Nyberg, ST; Heikkilä, K; Alfredsson, L; Bacquer, DED; Batty, GD; Bonenfant, S; ... Kivimäki, M; + view all (2012) Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium. BMC Public Health , 12 , Article 62. 10.1186/1471-2458-12-62. Green open access

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Abstract

Job strain (i.e., high job demands combined with low job control) is a frequently used indicator of harmful work stress, but studies have often used partial versions of the complete multi-item job demands and control scales. Understanding whether the different instruments assess the same underlying concepts has crucial implications for the interpretation of findings across studies, harmonisation of multi-cohort data for pooled analyses, and design of future studies. As part of the 'IPD-Work' (Individual-participant-data meta-analysis in working populations) consortium, we compared different versions of the demands and control scales available in 17 European cohort studies.

Type: Article
Title: Comparison of alternative versions of the job demand-control scales in 17 European cohort studies: the IPD-Work consortium
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-62
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-62
Language: English
Additional information: © 2012 Fransson et al; BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. PMCID: PMC3328260
Keywords: Cohort Studies, Europe, Humans, Internal-External Control, Occupational Exposure, Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1337103
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