title: Demand-specific work ability, poor health and working conditions in middle-aged full-time employees.
abstract: We investigated the prevalence of reduced demand-specific work ability, its association with age, gender, education, poor health, and working conditions, and the interaction between poor health and working conditions regarding reduced demand-specific work ability. We used cross-sectional questionnaire data from 3381 full-time employees responding to questions about vocational education, job demands and social support (working conditions), musculoskeletal pain (MSP) and major depression (MD) (poor health) and seven questions about difficulty managing different job demands (reduced demand-specific work ability). Reduced demand-specific work ability varied from 9% to 19% among the 46-year old and from 11% to 21% among the 56-year old. Age was associated with two, gender with four, and education with all measures of reduced demand-specific work ability. MSP was associated with four and MD was associated with six measures of reduced demand-specific work ability. We found no interaction between working conditions and poor health regarding reduced demand-specific work ability.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: nabe@sund.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nabe-Nielsen
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: kthi@sund.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Karsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thielen
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: elnyg@sund.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Else
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nygaard
authors.affiliation: The National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: svt@nrcwe.dk.
authors.forename: Sannie Vester
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Thorsen
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: fidi@sund.ku.dk.
authors.forename: Finn
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Diderichsen
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014937:Work / Q000592:standards; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation; D017132:Workplace / Q000592:standards
keywords: Depression; Job demands; Musculoskeletal pain