TY - JOUR
AU1 - Theorell, Töres
AU2 - Hammarström, Anne
AU3 - Aronsson, Gunnar
AU4 - Träskman Bendz, Lil
AU5 - Grape, Tom
AU6 - Hogstedt, Christer
AU7 - Marteinsdottir, Ina
AU8 - Skoog, Ingmar
AU9 - Hall, Charlotte
AB - Background: Depressive symptoms are potential outcomes of poorly functioning work environments. Such symptoms are frequent and cause considerable suffering for the employees as well as financial loss for the employers. Accordingly good prospective studies of psychosocial working conditions and depressive symptoms are valuable. Scientific reviews of such studies have pointed at methodological difficulties but still established a few job risk factors. Those reviews were published some years ago. There is need for an updated systematic review using the GRADE system. In addition, gender related questions have been insufficiently reviewed. Method: Inclusion criteria for the studies published 1990 to June 2013: 1. European and English speaking countries. 2. Quantified results describing the relationship between exposure (psychosocial or physical/chemical) and outcome (standardized questionnaire assessment of depressive symptoms or interview-based clinical depression). 3. Prospective or comparable case-control design with at least 100 participants. 4. Assessments of exposure (working conditions) and outcome at baseline and outcome (depressive symptoms) once again after follow-up 1-5 years later. 5. Adjustment for age and adjustment or stratification for gender. Studies filling inclusion criteria were subjected to assessment of 1.) relevance and 2.) quality using predefined criteria. Systematic review of the evidence was made using the GRADE system. 
TI - A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and depressive symptoms
JF - BMC Public Health
DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1954-4
DA - 2015-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/a-systematic-review-including-meta-analysis-of-work-environment-and-02OlrcpHVy
SP - 1
EP - 14
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -