Job strain and non-medical drug use.
In this study, the Karasek demand/control formulation of job strain, initially used in research on cardiovascular health, has been extended to drug use. Full-time nurses (n = 2375), all participants in a national anonymous mailed survey, were an estimated 1.5 times more likely to be a recent non-medical drug user if they had a high strain job as compared to nurses in low strain jobs. The psychosocial work environment might influence whether nurses become and remain non-medical drug users, over and above the risk-modifying functions related to nurses' individual vulnerabilities and their greater access to controlled substances.
Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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