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Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees

OBJECTIVES: Participation in population-based surveys and epidemiological studies has been declining over the years in many countries. The aim of this study was to examine the association between job type and participation in the work environment and health in Denmark survey with/without taking into...

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Autores principales: Johnsen, Nina Føns, Thomsen, Birthe Lykke, Hansen, Jørgen Vinsløv, Christensen, Birgitte Schütt, Rugulies, Reiner, Schlünssen, Vivi
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027056
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author Johnsen, Nina Føns
Thomsen, Birthe Lykke
Hansen, Jørgen Vinsløv
Christensen, Birgitte Schütt
Rugulies, Reiner
Schlünssen, Vivi
author_facet Johnsen, Nina Føns
Thomsen, Birthe Lykke
Hansen, Jørgen Vinsløv
Christensen, Birgitte Schütt
Rugulies, Reiner
Schlünssen, Vivi
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description OBJECTIVES: Participation in population-based surveys and epidemiological studies has been declining over the years in many countries. The aim of this study was to examine the association between job type and participation in the work environment and health in Denmark survey with/without taking into account other socio-demographic factors. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey using questionnaire data on working environment and registry data on job type, industry and socio-economic variables. SETTING: The work environment and health study. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 50 806 employees (15 767 in a stratified workplace sample; 35 039 in a random sample) working at least 35 hours/month and earning at least 3000 Danish Krones. OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcome was participation (yes/no) and logistic regression was used to estimate the OR for participation with 95% CI. RESULTS: In the random sample, women were more likely to participate than men, and married/non-married couples were more likely to participate than persons living alone or more families living together. Participation increased with higher age, higher annual personal income, higher education and Danish origin, and there were marked differences in participation between job types and geographical regions. For armed forces, craft and related trade workers, and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, the association between job type and participation was strongly attenuated after adjustment for sex and age. Additional adjustment for annual income, education, cohabitation, country of origin and geographical region generally attenuated the association between job type and participation. Similar results were found in the stratified workplace sample. CONCLUSION: In this population of Danish employees, participation varied across types of jobs. Some but not all the variation between job types was explained by other socio-demographic factors. Future studies using questionnaires may consider targeting efforts to (sub-)populations, defined by job type and other factors, where response probability is particularly important.
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spelling pubmed-67015702019-09-02 Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees Johnsen, Nina Føns Thomsen, Birthe Lykke Hansen, Jørgen Vinsløv Christensen, Birgitte Schütt Rugulies, Reiner Schlünssen, Vivi BMJ Open Epidemiology OBJECTIVES: Participation in population-based surveys and epidemiological studies has been declining over the years in many countries. The aim of this study was to examine the association between job type and participation in the work environment and health in Denmark survey with/without taking into account other socio-demographic factors. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey using questionnaire data on working environment and registry data on job type, industry and socio-economic variables. SETTING: The work environment and health study. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 50 806 employees (15 767 in a stratified workplace sample; 35 039 in a random sample) working at least 35 hours/month and earning at least 3000 Danish Krones. OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcome was participation (yes/no) and logistic regression was used to estimate the OR for participation with 95% CI. RESULTS: In the random sample, women were more likely to participate than men, and married/non-married couples were more likely to participate than persons living alone or more families living together. Participation increased with higher age, higher annual personal income, higher education and Danish origin, and there were marked differences in participation between job types and geographical regions. For armed forces, craft and related trade workers, and skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers, the association between job type and participation was strongly attenuated after adjustment for sex and age. Additional adjustment for annual income, education, cohabitation, country of origin and geographical region generally attenuated the association between job type and participation. Similar results were found in the stratified workplace sample. CONCLUSION: In this population of Danish employees, participation varied across types of jobs. Some but not all the variation between job types was explained by other socio-demographic factors. Future studies using questionnaires may consider targeting efforts to (sub-)populations, defined by job type and other factors, where response probability is particularly important. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6701570/ /pubmed/31427315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027056 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Johnsen, Nina Føns
Thomsen, Birthe Lykke
Hansen, Jørgen Vinsløv
Christensen, Birgitte Schütt
Rugulies, Reiner
Schlünssen, Vivi
Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title_full Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title_fullStr Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title_full_unstemmed Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title_short Job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of Danish employees
title_sort job type and other socio-demographic factors associated with participation in a national, cross-sectional study of danish employees
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6701570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31427315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027056
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