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Open AccessReducing sick leave, improving work ability, and quality of life in patients with mild to moderate Long COVID through psychosocial, physiotherapeutic, and nutritive supportive digital intervention (MiLoCoDaS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Following SARS-CoV-2 infection, a relevant proportion of patients suffer from persistent or recurring sequela, even after initially mild primary illness. Many patients experience exhaustion and fatigue, rende...
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Open AccessCorrection: The longitudinal directional associations of meaningful work with mental well-being – initial findings from an exploratory investigation
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Open AccessThe longitudinal directional associations of meaningful work with mental well-being – initial findings from an exploratory investigation
An increasing number of studies reveal that more meaning in life is positively related to mental well-being. Meaning in life can be derived from different sources, including the workplace. The aim of this stud...
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Open AccessPersonality type matters: Perceptions of job demands, job resources, and their associations with work engagement and mental health
This three-wave study examined whether the pattern of associations of job demands and job resources with work engagement and mental health depends on personality types. In a representative sample of the German...
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Open AccessThe relationship between ambivalence towards supervisor's behavior and employee’s mental health
Ambivalence in social interactions has been linked to health-related outcomes in private relationships and recent research has started to expand this evidence to ambivalent leadership at the workplace by showi...
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Open AccessThe association between supportive social ties and autonomic nervous system function—differences between family ties and friendship ties in a cohort of older adults
Supportive family and friendship ties can serve different functions and thus might show different associations with an individual’s health. Particularly, older adults might show varying health benefits of diff...
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Open AccessCreating a measure to operationalize engaged well-being at work
Mental well-being and work engagement are both desirable, positive states of mind that help employees to better function in the workplace. While occupational researchers have argued in favor of considering bot...
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Open AccessMeasures of infection prevention and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
COVID-19 infection has manifested as a major threat to both patients and healthcare providers around the world. Radiation oncology institutions (ROI) deliver a major component of cancer treatment, with protoco...
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Open AccessEstimating the potential reduction in future sickness absence from optimizing group-level psychosocial work characteristics: a prospective, multicenter cohort study in German industrial settings
Absence from work due to sickness impairs organizational productivity and performance. Even in organizations with perfect work conditions, some inevitable baseline sickness absence exists amongst working popul...
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Open AccessPsychometric properties and contextual appropriateness of the German version of the Early Development Instrument
Assessing the early development of children at a population level in educational settings, may be useful for public health and policy decision making. In this study, we evaluated the psychometric properties an...
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Associations of Changes in Organizational Justice with Job Attitudes and Health—Findings from a Prospective Study Using a Matching-Based Difference-in-Difference Approach
Ample evidence indicates that unfairness at the workplace (organizational injustice) is associated with both job attitudes and health of employees. Several factors that influence these associations have been i...
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Associations of ambivalent leadership with distress and cortisol secretion
Ambivalent social ties, i.e., whereby a relationship is evaluated simultaneously in positive and negative terms, are a potential source of distress and can perturb health-relevant biological functions. Social ...
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Open AccessIdentification of starting points to promote health and wellbeing at the community level – a qualitative study
As health is influenced by the social, economic and environmental conditions in which individuals live, local communities are an ideal setting to promote health and wellbeing. However, up to now various health...
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Effects of low-volume high-intensity interval training in a community setting: a pilot study
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) is emerging as an effective and time-efficient exercise strategy for health promotion. However, most HIIT studies are conducted in laboratory settings and evidence regar...
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Open AccessApplied immuno-epidemiological research: an approach for integrating existing knowledge into the statistical analysis of multiple immune markers
Immunologists often measure several correlated immunological markers, such as concentrations of different cytokines produced by different immune cells and/or measured under different conditions, to draw insigh...
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Open AccessDaily commuting to work is not associated with variables of health
Commuting to work is thought to have a negative impact on employee health. We tested the association of work commute and different variables of health in German industrial employees.
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Open AccessElevated HbA1c levels and the accumulation of differentiated T cells in CMV+ individuals
Biological ageing of the immune system, or immunosenescence, predicts poor health and increased mortality. A hallmark of immunosenescence is the accumulation of differentiated cytotoxic T cells (CD27−CD45RA+/−; o...
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Open AccessWithin- and between-group regression for improving the robustness of causal claims in cross-sectional analysis
A major objective of environmental epidemiology is to elucidate exposure-health outcome associations. To increase the variance of observed exposure concentrations, researchers recruit individuals from differen...
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Associations Between Supportive Leadership and Employees Self-Rated Health in an Occupational Sample
Protecting the health of the work force has become an important issue in public health research.
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Psychometric properties of a German organizational justice questionnaire (G-OJQ) and its association with self-rated health: findings from the Mannheim Industrial Cohort Studies (MICS)
The objective of the present study was to validate a German 11-item organizational justice questionnaire (G-OJQ) that consists of two subscales, referred to as “procedural justice” (PJ) and “interactional just...
