Certainly qualified knowledge staff are a rising team of the task force. Minor studies have been conducted on this group involving possible work-related health symptoms, along with interventions in an effort to minimize work-related pressure. This dissertation explains the present work-related symptoms and danger and salutogenic, i.e. protective factors, linked with all these symptoms among software package and process designers in a superior technician company. A stress management intervention system was published to be able to evaluate whether work-related stress might be a risk factors of these indicators. It was also of fascination to examine the opportunity impact of stress management interventions on psychosocial work organizational factors. The dissertation is dependant on cross sectional and longitudinal data. Document I is concentrating on risk elements for bone and joint indicators and headaches, and their possible association with biological markers and self-reported physical and psychosocial work environmental factors. Paper II assessed the association between occupational psychosocial factors and psychosomatic indications i.e. a lack of attention, headache, uneasyness, irritation, moodiness and difficulty concentrating….
Contents: Advanced Knowledge Work and Stress-related Symptoms: Epidemiology and Clinical Intervention Studies
Introduction
Background
Aim of this thesis
Overall hypotheses
A brief introduction to common work-related symptoms
Musculoskeletal symptoms
Theories linking stress with musculoskeletal symptoms within a frame of the allostatic load model
VDU-related skin symptoms
Headache
Psychosocial work environment
Stress
Psychophysiological stress
Psychosocial stressors – different models
Physical environment
Stress management; muscular relaxation training
Why study employees in a high-tech work environment?
The studied company
Material & methods
Study population
Methods
Paper design
Assessments
Neck and back index
Lower arm index
Skin symptom index
The psychosocial work environmental assessment
Psychosocial indices
Blood samples
Data collection
Intervention techniques
Ethical approval
Statistical analysis
Summary of papers
Summary of the hypotheses testing
General Discussion
Aims and hypothesis…
Advanced Knowledge Work and Stress-related Symptoms: Epidemiology and Clinical Intervention Studies
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