title: Psychosocial factors at work and the development of mobility limitations among adults in Denmark.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Psychosocial factors in the working environment have been shown to be associated with mobility limitations, but this has not yet been confirmed in a Danish population. We aimed to examine how psychosocial factors at work are related to developing mobility limitations in Denmark.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study is based on data from 2952 middle-aged men and women without mobility limitations in 2000.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found increased risk of incident mobility limitations during 6-year follow up among men who often perceived high work pace (OR 5.45, 95% CI 1.21-24.52) vs. never, who only sometimes or/never perceived the work to be meaningful (OR 6.54, 95% CI 1.55-27.55) vs. always, and who sometimes perceived high emotional demands at work (OR 7.85, 95% CI 1.78-34.65) vs. never. Among women, lower risk of incident mobility limitations was observed among those who in 2000 perceived high work pace sometimes (OR 0.46, 95% CI 0.24-0.87) or often (OR 0.43, 95% CI 0.22-0.85) vs. never in 2000. Also, women who always or often experienced high emotional demands had an increased risk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most important finding was that high work pace was strongly associated with increased risk of mobility limitations among men, but associated with lower risk of mobility limitations among women. This knowledge may be used to better target interventions among men and women in midlife from physical deterioration later in life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark National Research Centre for Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark stk935@ku.dk.
authors.forename: Åse Marie
authors.initials: ÅM
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Lilie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Darsø
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Center for Healthy Ageing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Minna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manty
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Center for Healthy Ageing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Charlotte
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nilsson
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Ulla
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Center for Healthy Ageing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Rikke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.affiliation: National Research Centre for Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Holtermann
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Center for Healthy Ageing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Danish Aging Research Center, Universities of Aarhus, Southern Denmark (Odense) and Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Avlund
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051346:Mobility Limitation; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Emotional demands; high work pace; mobility limitations; psychosocial factors