Workplace

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A longitudinal study on the relationship between weight loss, medical expenditures, and absenteeism among overweight employees in the WAY to Health study. 
  • A pilot study testing the effect of different levels of financial incentives on weight loss among overweight employees. 
  • A qualitative analysis of career transitions made by internal medicine-pediatrics residency training graduates. 
  • A return-on-investment simulation model of workplace obesity interventions. 
  • A review of environmental influences on food choices. 
  • Adjustable task lighting: Field study assesses the benefits in an office environment. 
  • Advanced practice psychiatric nursing: a national profile. 
  • Age, burnout and physical and psychological work ability among nurses. 
  • An urgent need to understand and address the safety and well-being of hospital "sitters". 
  • Analysis of the workforce and workplace for rheumatology and the research activities of rheumatologists early in their careers. 
  • Antineoplastic drug exposure in an ambulatory setting: a pilot study. 
  • Area-based socioeconomic characteristics of industries at high risk for violence in the workplace. 
  • Associations between safety climate and safety management practices in the construction industry. 
  • Barriers to Engagement in a Workplace Weight Management Program: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Boredom in the Workplace: A New Look at an Old Problem. 
  • Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: the differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors. 
  • Caffeine affects cardiovascular and neuroendocrine activation at work and home. 
  • Caffeine raises blood pressure at work. 
  • Challenges faced by older nurses in Singapore: a mixed methods study. 
  • Challenges in residential fall prevention: insight from apprentice carpenters. 
  • Compensation costs of work-related back disorders among union carpenters, Washington State 1989-2003. 
  • Complexity science and the dynamics of climate and communication: reducing nursing home turnover. 
  • Contribution of health status and prevalent chronic disease to individual risk for workplace injury in the manufacturing environment. 
  • Costs by industry and diagnosis among musculoskeletal claims in a state workers compensation system: 1999-2004. 
  • Decreasing workplace incivility. 
  • Development of the St. Louis audit of fall risks at residential construction sites. 
  • Does race/ethnicity moderate the association between job strain and leisure time physical activity? 
  • Economic causes and consequences of obesity. 
  • Effect of Peer-to-Peer Nurse-Physician Collaboration on Attitudes Toward the Nurse-Physician Relationship. 
  • Effect of calories-only vs physical activity calorie expenditure labeling on lunch calories purchased in worksite cafeterias. 
  • Effects of garage employment and tobacco smoking on breathing-zone concentrations of carbonyl compounds. 
  • Effects of physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labeling: study design and baseline sample characteristics. 
  • Emotional intelligence, personality, and task-induced stress. 
  • Employer and healthcare policy interventions aimed at adult obesity. 
  • Environmental changes to control obesity: a randomized controlled trial in manufacturing companies. 
  • Ergonomic guidelines for using notebook personal computers. Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction, International Ergonomics Association. 
  • Evaluating Simulation Education in the Workplace: Kirkpatrick's Levels and Beyond. 
  • Evaluation of a workplace hemochromatosis screening program. 
  • Exploring Opportunities for Implementing Mindfulness Education in the Healthcare Workplace. 
  • Extent and correlates of change in anthropometric and fitness outcomes among participants in a corporate team-based weight loss challenge in Singapore: lose to win 2009. 
  • Factors Related to Presenteeism among South Korean Workers Exposed to Workplace Psychological Adverse Social Behavior. 
  • Fall prevention and safety communication training for foremen: report of a pilot project designed to improve residential construction safety. 
  • Guidance to employers on integrating e-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems into tobacco worksite policy. 
  • Health issues of female foreign domestic workers: a systematic review of the scientific and gray literature. 
  • Hiring the right people and management of research staff. 
  • Implementing Frontline Worker-Led Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes: Getting to "How". 
  • Increasing Influenza Immunization Rates Among Retail Employees: An Evidence-Based Approach. 
  • Influence of a tobacco-free hospital campus policy on smoking status of hospital employees. 
  • Informal social status among coworkers and risk of work-related injury among nurse aides in long-term care. 
  • Institutional Factors Associated With Burnout Among Assistant Professors. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of work satisfaction in ambulatory care and hospital settings. 
  • Job characteristics and work organization factors associated with patient-handling injury among nursing personnel. 
  • Lean in messages increase attributions of women's responsibility for gender inequality. 
  • Lessons from Singapore's national weight management program, Lose To Win. 
  • Maternal work hours and adolescents' school outcomes among low-income families in four urban counties. 
  • Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory version. 
  • Mindfulness Training for the Modern Day Workforce. 
  • My Obstetrician Got Me Fired: How Work Notes Can Harm Pregnant Patients and What to Do About It. 
  • Neuroendocrine responses to caffeine in the work environment. 
  • New pediatricians: first jobs and future workplace goals. 
  • Non-fatal construction industry fall-related injuries treated in US emergency departments, 1998-2005. 
  • Nurse practitioner certification and practice settings: implications for education and practice. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Occupational medicine programs for animal research facilities. 
  • Organizational- and employee-level recruitment into a worksite-based weight loss study. 
  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States. 
  • Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Among Participants in a Workplace Obesity Intervention. 
  • Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution. 
  • Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: effects on physical activity. 
  • Physician Burnout and Physician Health: Three Simple Suggestions for a Complex Problem. 
  • Plasma antibodies to heat shock protein 60 and heat shock protein 70 are associated with increased risk of electrocardiograph abnormalities in automobile workers exposed to noise. 
  • Predicting the counterproductive employee in a child-to-adult prospective study. 
  • Prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace and educational settings. 
  • Promoting worksite smoking control policies and actions: the Community Intervention Trial for Smoking Cessation (COMMIT) experience. The COMMIT Research Group. 
  • Protocol of a randomized controlled trial of the Tobacco Tactics website for operating engineers. 
  • Psychologic stress in the workplace and spontaneous abortion. 
  • Psychological variables in hypertension: relationship to casual or ambulatory blood pressure in men. 
  • Psychosocial work environment and depressive symptoms among US workers: comparing working poor and working non-poor. 
  • Quantification and statistical modeling--part I: breathing-zone concentrations of monomeric and polymeric 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate. 
  • Rates of and circumstances surrounding work-related falls from height among union drywall carpenters in Washington State, 1989-2008. 
  • Registered nurse retention strategies in nursing homes: a two-factor perspective. 
  • Rodent thyroid, liver, and fetal testis toxicity of the monoester metabolite of bis-(2-ethylhexyl) tetrabromophthalate (tbph), a novel brominated flame retardant present in indoor dust. 
  • Safety of union home care aides in Washington State. 
  • Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work-related injuries among union carpenters: "you're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work". 
  • Sampling and mass spectrometric analytical methods for five antineoplastic drugs in the healthcare environment. 
  • Scientific misconduct from the perspective of research coordinators: a national survey. 
  • Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men. 
  • Steps to Health employee weight management randomized control trial: short-term follow-up results. 
  • Stress management in the workplace for employees with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 
  • Tailored e-mails in the workplace. 
  • Talking the talk: The keys to effective workplace communication. 
  • The Glaxo Wellcome health promotion program: the contract for health and wellness. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The costs of obesity in the workplace. 
  • The economic burden of anxiety disorders in the 1990s. 
  • The effect of job strain on nighttime blood pressure dipping among men and women with high blood pressure. 
  • The effect of tailored e-mails in the workplace. Part II. Increasing overall physical activity. 
  • The gift of voice. 
  • The impact of subgroup type and subgroup configurational properties on work team performance. 
  • The relationship between symptoms and IgG and IgE antibodies in an office environment. 
  • The steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: rationale, design and baseline characteristics. 
  • Three perspectives on work-related injury surveillance systems. 
  • Tying knots: an activity theory analysis of student learning goals in clinical education. 
  • Understanding contemporary forms of exploitation: Attributions of passion serve to legitimize the poor treatment of workers. 
  • Value in workplace-based assessment rater training: psychometrics or edumetrics? 
  • Work and home stress: associations with anxiety and depression symptoms. 
  • Work hazards and workplace safety violations experienced by adolescent construction workers. 
  • Work-Related Determinants of Burnout in a Nationally Representative Sample of German Employees: Results From the Study on Mental Health at Work. 
  • Work-life balance behaviours cluster in work settings and relate to burnout and safety culture: a cross-sectional survey analysis. 
  • Work-site clinical and neurobehavioral assessment of solvent-exposed microelectronics workers. 
  • Working together in the neonatal intensive care unit: provider perspectives. 
  • Workplace Concentration of Immigrants 
  • Workplace Hazards Faced by Nursing Assistants in the United States: A Focused Literature Review. 
  • Workplace discrimination and cumulative trauma disorders: the national EEOC ADA research project. 
  • Workplace health and safety intervention for child care staff: Rationale, design, and baseline results from the CARE cluster randomized control trial. 
  • Worksite medical home: health services use and claim costs. 
  • Worksite physical activity breaks: Perspectives on feasibility of implementation. 
  • myTIPreport and Training for Independent Practice: A Tool for Real-Time Workplace Feedback for Milestones and Procedural Skills. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Ostbye, Truls, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health