BACKGROUND In this longitudinal study the complex interplay between both job strain and bullying in relation to sickness absence was investigated. Following the "work environment hypothesis", which establishes several work characteristics as antecedents of bullying, we assumed that job strain, conceptualized by the Job-Demand-Control model, has an indirect relation with long-term sickness absen...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to examine the role of coping styles in sickness absence. In line with findings that contrast the reactive-passive focused strategies, problem-solving strategies are generally associated with positive results in terms of well-being and overall health outcomes; our hypothesis is that such strategies are positively related to a low frequency of sickness absence...

OBJECTIVES Common mental disorders are associated with impaired functioning and sickness absence. We examine whether sub-clinical as well as clinical psychiatric morbidity predict long spells of sickness absence for both psychiatric and non-psychiatric illness. We also examine whether recent common mental disorders and those present on two occasions have a stronger association with sickness abs...

BACKGROUND The workplace is used as a setting for interventions to prevent and reduce sickness absence, regardless of the specific medical conditions and diagnoses. AIMS To give an overview of the general effectiveness of active workplace interventions aimed at preventing and reducing sickness absence. METHODS We systematically searched PubMed, Embase, Psych-info, and ISI web of knowledge o...

BACKGROUND Although teaching is considered a high-stress profession, research on stress-related outcomes among teachers, such as absence from work due to illness (i.e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such as special education teachers. AIMS To examine differences ...

Basic radiological factors of the Chernobyl accident are reviewed such as radioactivity discharge, the size of contaminated area, radiation dose, radiation risk assessment etc. Roughly estimating, 50-60 % of I and 30-50 % of Cs in the reactor core were released into the environment, which correspond to 40-50 MCi and 2-4 MCi, respectively, as the activities at the time of the accident. The total...