title: Job strain predicts survey response in healthcare industry workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effect of job strain on survey response.
  
  
  METHODS
  1,613 health care workers received a self-administered questionnaire. Thirty percent of them completed the survey on personal time without any personal monetary compensation. Working conditions were extracted by job title from the national database O*NET 6.0. Job strain was defined as the ratio of job demands to job control. Two complementary models (multi-level logistic and binomial pseudo Poisson regressions) were used to model individual survey response as a function of individual level demographic variables (age and gender), job-level socioeconomic status (SES) and job strain, and facility type (third level).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Survey response was associated with higher SES and with less job strain. The association of SES and survey response was mediated by job strain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Employees' exposure to job strain may be an important influence on survey response, at least for workers who are not compensated for their time in completing a survey.
authors.affiliation: Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA. manuel_cifuentes@uml.edu
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cifuentes
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gore
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: d'Errico
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Scollin
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tessler
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lerner
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kriebel
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Punnett
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Slatin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005260:Female; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D016272:Occupational Health; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace