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Open AccessEstablishing General Working Population Norms for the Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work
Purpose: The Cognitive Symptom Checklist-Work (CSC-W) is a self-report measure to assess cognitive symptoms (i.e., memory and executive function) in working adults with cancer. To date, general working population...
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Open AccessDo Differences in Work Disability Duration Between Men and Women Vary by Province in Canada?
Purpose Research has shown that there are important sex and gender-based differences in the work disability duration of men and women. This research is often limited to single jurisdictions, using different outco...
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Open AccessThe Work Role Functioning Questionnaire v2.0 Showed Consistent Factor Structure Across Six Working Samples
Objective The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire v2.0 (WRFQ) is an outcome measure linking a persons’ health to the ability to meet work demands in the twenty-first century. We aimed to examine ...
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Validity and Reliability of the 8-Item Work Limitations Questionnaire
Purpose To evaluate factorial validity, scale reliability, test–retest reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the 8-item Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ) among...
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How Do Organizational Policies and Practices Affect Return to Work and Work Role Functioning Following a Musculoskeletal Injury?
Purpose Organizational-level policies and practices that promote safety leadership and practices, disability management and ergonomic policies and practices are considered key contextual ...
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Open AccessThe Predictive Validity of the Return-to-Work Self-Efficacy Scale for Return-to-Work Outcomes in Claimants with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Purpose To examine the predictive validity of the Return-to-Work Self-Efficacy (RTWSE) Scale in terms of the scale’s baseline absolute values and of changes in self-efficacy scores, with ...
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Reliability and Validity of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (Spanish Version)
Purpose Recently, the cross-cultural adaptation of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire to Spanish was carried out, achieving satisfactory psychometric properties. Now we examined the reliabil...
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire to Spanish Spoken in Spain
Purpose The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (WRFQ) is a tool developed in the United States to measure work disability and assess the perceived impact of health problems on worker ability to ...
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Prognostic Factors for Successful Work Functioning in the General Working Population
Purpose To help workers to stay at work in a healthy productive and sustainable way and for the development of interventions to improve work functioning, it is important to have insight in progno...
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) in Workers’ Compensation Claimants with Chronic Upper-Limb Disorders
Purpose: To examine the factorial validity of the Work Limitations Questionnaire (WLQ-25) among workers’ compensation claimants with chronic upper-limb disorders. Methods: Attendees of the WSIB S...
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Open AccessSystematic Review of Intervention Practices for Depression in the Workplace
Design Systematic Review. Objective To determine which intervention approaches to manage depression in the workplace have been successful and yielded value for employers in developed economies. D...
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Introduction to Special Section: Systematic Reviews for Prevention and Management of Musculoskeletal Disorders
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A Systematic Review of Workplace Ergonomic Interventions with Economic Analyses
Introduction This article reports on a systematic review of workplace ergonomic interventions with economic evaluations. The review sought to answer the question: “what is the credible evidence that incremental i...
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Systematic Review of the Role of Occupational Health and Safety Interventions in the Prevention of Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Symptoms, Signs, Disorders, Injuries, Claims and Lost Time
Background Little is known about the most effective occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions to reduce upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and injuries. Methods A systematic review used a b...
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Effectiveness of Health and Safety in Small Enterprises: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Evaluations of Interventions
Introduction This systematic review was conducted to identify effective occupational health and safety interventions for small businesses. Methods The review focused on peer-reviewed intervention studies conducte...
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Occupational Safety and Health Interventions to Reduce Musculoskeletal Symptoms in the Health Care Sector
Introduction Health care work is dangerous and multiple interventions have been tested to reduce the occupational hazards. Methods A systematic review of the literature used a best evidence synthesis approach to ...
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Work organization and drinking: an epidemiological comparison of two psychosocial work exposure models
To examine the relationship between two alternative psychosocial work exposure measurement frameworks (i.e., job alienation and job stress) and three drinking behaviours (frequent, heavy and drinking and work).
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Computer Use Patterns Associated with Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Symptoms
Introduction Over half of surveyed college students are experiencing pain they are attributing to computer use. The study objective was to evaluate the effect of computing patterns on upp...
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Disability Management Practices in Ontario Health Care Workplaces
Background: Workplace disability management programs are important in managing injury and disability. Methods: A stratified random sample of 188 employers in health care workplaces (71 ho...
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Workplace Organizational Policies and Practices in Ontario Educational Facilities
Background: Workplace organizational policies and practices (OPPs) play a pivotal role in managing injury and disability. This study identifies the workplace OPPs in Ontario’s education sector. Methods: OPPs were...
