title: Recurring pain and the potential of employer support to improve participant health.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study describes the relationships between a set of workplace psychosocial factors, including health-related employer support and recurring pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study used a pooled sample of participants from 14 US employers (N = 34,359) from 2010 (for one employer, 2008). Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the relationships, after controlling for many additional factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Emotional, but not physical, health-related employer support was associated with reduced probability of pain. Job satisfaction, getting to use strengths at work, and having a supervisor who created a trusting and open environment were also associated with a reduced probability of pain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although more research is needed to firmly establish the causal nature of the relationships, psychosocial workplace factors were associated with reduced probability of pain in this study.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, Calif; Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Mass.
authors.forename: Jessica A R
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D010146:Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011336:Probability; D012008:Recurrence; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*