[Psychosocial aspects and body pain: results from an employee survey in the frame of the MAF-project "integrated health management in companies: employee survey about working conditions as management tool"].
BACKGROUND
The aim of the study is to present a compact employee attitude survey for companies within a health care management tool. Beside body pains work-related psychosocial risk factors as well as further influencing factors, are taken into consideration. The questionnaire was evaluated by 6 Bavarian companies.


METHODS
Potential influencing factors on physical problems like back pain, neck- and shoulder tension, gastro-intestinal diseases and headache were examined by multiple analysis. Dissatisfaction with working conditions was also examined in the same way. All analyses were carried out age and sex adjusted.


RESULTS
Statistical analyses are based on 3,720 employees of 3 companies out of a total of 6 companies who answered the questionnaires. Response rates of the different companies ranged from 34 to 60%. Psychomental demands and psychosocial strains were found to be the strongest predictors for body pains as well as for dissatisfaction with working conditions.


CONCLUSIONS
The introduced questionnaire is easy to implement within the framework of a company health care management. It has an holistic approach. We could demonstrate that this instrument is able to reveal multiple aspects of work-related body pain as well as multiple aspects of dissatisfaction with working conditions. Thus it is a starting point for the development of necessary measures for health promotion.
Spegel
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Institut und Poliklinik für Arbeits-, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. hedwig.spegel@lgl.bayern.de
Meyer
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Mollenkopf
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Nowak
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D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011584:Psychology; D018570:Risk Assessment; D059265:Visceral Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000078329:Workforce; D055815:Young Adult