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.
Storr
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Department of Mental Hygiene, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Trinkoff
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Anthony
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JC
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