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21071605

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-20
pubmed:abstractText
It is unknown whether the relation between job strain and depression reflects causal characteristics of the working environment or reporting bias. The authors investigated reporting bias by analyzing individual versus work-unit measures of job strain and the risk of depressive symptoms (n = 287) and a diagnosis of depression (n = 97) among 4,291 employees within 378 work units in Aarhus, Denmark, 2007. All participants reported psychological demands and decision latitude, and the authors estimated mean values for each work unit. The odds ratios predicting depressive symptoms or a diagnosis of depression for the highest versus the lowest levels of individual, self-reported high psychological demands and low decision latitude were significantly increased above 2.5. When participants were classified by the work-unit mean levels, these associations were substantially smaller. For depressive symptoms, the odds ratios were 1.49 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.88, 2.53) and 1.08 (95% CI: 0.84, 1.39), respectively, for psychological demands and decision latitude. For a diagnosis of depression, the odds ratios were 1.33 (95% CI: 0.57, 3.09) and 1.02 (95% CI: 0.68, 1.56), respectively, for psychological demands and decision latitude. These findings indicate that reporting bias inflates associations between job strain and the occurrence of depression, if studies rely on individual self-reports.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1476-6256
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
173
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
94-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-8-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Job strain and the risk of depression: is reporting biased?
pubmed:affiliation
Danish Ramazzini Centre, Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Arhus, Denmark. henkol@rm.dk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't