Job strain and alcohol intake: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual-participant data from 140,000 men and women

Katriina Heikkilä, Solja T Nyberg, Eleonor I Fransson, Lars Alfredsson, Dirk De Bacquer, Jakob Bjørner, Sébastien Bonenfant, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Els Clays, Annalisa Casini, Nico Dragano, Raimund Erbel, Goedele A Geuskens, Marcel Goldberg, Wendela E Hooftman, Irene L Houtman, Matti Joensuu, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, France KittelAnders Knutsson, Markku Koskenvuo, Aki Koskinen, Anne Kouvonen, Constanze Leineweber, Thorsten Lunau, Ida E H Madsen, Linda L Magnusson Hanson, Michael G Marmot, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Jaana Pentti, Paula Salo, Reiner Rugulies, Andrew Steptoe, Johannes Siegrist, Sakari Suominen, Jussi Vahtera, Marianna Virtanen, Ari Väänänen, Peter Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Marie Zins, Töres Theorell, Mark Hamer, Jane E Ferrie, Archana Singh-Manoux, G David Batty, Mika Kivimäki, IPD-Work Consortium

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Abstract

The relationship between work-related stress and alcohol intake is uncertain. In order to add to the thus far inconsistent evidence from relatively small studies, we conducted individual-participant meta-analyses of the association between work-related stress (operationalised as self-reported job strain) and alcohol intake.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPLOS ONE
Volume7
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)e40101
ISSN1932-6203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Adult
  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Odds Ratio
  • Risk Factors
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Workplace
  • Young Adult

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