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    Personality self-representations of patients with hand injury, and its relationship with work injury (1995)
    Springer
    European journal of epidemiology 11 (1995), S. 373-382 
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    ISSN: 1573-7284
    Keywords: Hand lesion ; Injury ; Personality self-representations ; Patients
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract This study compared the personality self-representations of 288 hand injured patients with those of 959 young people (15–25 years old) randomly selected from the general population (noted GP), and with those of 336 unemployed people of all ages in professional training (U) in Lorraine (north-eastern France). The relationship between patients' personality self-representations and injury was also investigated. Personality self-representations included 14 questions: in your own opinion are you sociable?, at ease with others?, serious?, careful?, dynamic?, optimistic?, worried?, irritable?, clumsy?, solitary?, organised?, ambitious?, do you have a sense of responsibility?, and many plans? The patients had similar self-representations to GP except for the items non clumsy (odds ratio adjusted on age and sex OR=2.40,p〈0.05) and optimistic (OR=1.70, but 0.05〈p〈0.10). The frequencies of non irritable, non clumsy and non solitary people were higher in patients than in the U group (OR about 2.40,p〈0.01). By contrast, the other items were more favourable for the U group except for the items sociable, organised and having many plans. Self-representation items were significantly related to some socio-demographic data. The work injured workmen having one or more previous work injuries during the last five years were more at ease with others than the other subjects. Among the work injured workmen who had had no previous work injury during this time, the people aged 29 or less (the highest risk age class) were more optimistic than the others (71% vs 49%,p〈0.05); a difference was also found for the items at ease with others, careful, dynamic, and non worried, but it was not significant possibly due to the small number of subjects. The sum of these five items differed between the two age groups (3.29±1.49 vs 2.55±1.68,p〈0.05). These simple items would provide an interesting approach in terms of personality which could explain in part the excess of work injuries in young people, though the work requirement still seemed to be the highest risk factor.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01721220
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    Asymmetry correction equations for hand volume, grip and pinch strengths in healthy working people (1998)
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    European journal of epidemiology 14 (1998), S. 71-77 
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    ISSN: 1573-7284
    Keywords: Asymmetry correction ; Hand strength ; Hand volume ; Healthy people
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Assessments of oedema and decrease in hand strength are useful for patients with a hand lesion. This study examined the asymmetry of the arms and determined the estimates of the unknown prior to lesion values for hand volume, grip strengths assessed with a Jamar dynamometer (GSJ) and a Collins dynamometer (GSC), and pinch strength with a Jamar pinch gauge (PS) in 100 healthy working people. Hand volume, GSJ, GSC, and PS of the dominant hand were respectively 3.6 ± 4.1%, 6.6 ± 9.2%, 11.7 ± 11.2%, and 8.0 ± 13.2% higher than those of the non-dominant hand (p 〈 0.001). Very good estimates were obtained with the values of the contralateral arm for all the indices studied. The correlation coefficient equalled 0.95 for hand volume, 0.91 for GSJ, 0.83 for GSC, and 0.72 for PS. These estimates allow us to evaluate the evolution of oedema and hand strengths in patients with hand injury, especially to determine whether they could return to work as they are mostly manual workers with demanding jobs.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007436000228
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    Comparison between estimates of hand volume and hand strengths with sex and age with and without anthropometric data in healthy working people (1997)
    Springer
    European journal of epidemiology 13 (1997), S. 309-316 
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    ISSN: 1573-7284
    Keywords: Anthropometric data ; Estimate ; Hand strengths ; Hand volume ; Healthy people
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Edema and hand strength measurements are useful for the recovery assessment of patients with a hand lesion. This work determined and compared estimates of hand volume, grip strengths (measured with a Jamar and a Collins dynamometer), and pinch strength (with a Jamar pinch gauge) in terms of sex and age with or without anthropometric indices in healthy working people. The sample included 100 subjects from within the staffs of two rehabilitation centres. For both grip strengths, multiple linear regression models including body height, weight, and arm muscle area were very good (multiple correlation coefficient R of about 0.84) and clearly better than those obtained with sex and age only. For pinch strength, the best estimate was obtained with sex and arm muscle area (R of 0.76); for hand volume, the model with sex, body height, and weight provided the best result (R of 0.93). These findings suggested that anthropometric indices easy to measure must be taken into account to estimate hand volume and hand strengths.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007308719731
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    Comparison of exposure assessment methods in a lung cancer case-control study: performance of a lifelong task-based questionnaire for asbestos and PAHs (2013)
    BMJ Publishing Group
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    Publication Date: 2013-11-09
    Description: Objective To describe the performance of a lifelong task-based questionnaire (TBQ) in estimating exposures compared with other approaches in the context of a case-control study. Methods A sample of 93 subjects was randomly selected from a lung cancer case-control study corresponding to 497 jobs. For each job, exposure assessments for asbestos and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were obtained by expertise (TBQ expertise) and by algorithm using the TBQ (TBQ algorithm) as well as by expert appraisals based on all available occupational data (REFERENCE expertise) considered to be the gold standard. Additionally, a Job Exposure Matrix (JEM)-based evaluation for asbestos was also obtained. On the 497 jobs, the various evaluations were contrasted using Cohen's coefficient of agreement. Additionally, on the total case-control population, the asbestos dose-response relationship based on the TBQ algorithm was compared with the JEM-based assessment. Results Regarding asbestos, the TBQ-exposure estimates agreed well with the REFERENCE estimate (TBQ expertise: level-weighted (lwk)=0.68; TBQ algorithm: lwk=0.61) but less so with the JEM estimate (TBQ expertise: lwk=0.31; TBQ algorithm: lwk=0.26). Regarding PAHs, the agreements between REFERENCE expertise and TBQ were less good (TBQ expertise: lwk=0.43; TBQ algorithm: lwk=0.36). In the case-control study analysis, the dose-response relationship between lung cancer and cumulative asbestos based on the JEM is less steep than with the TBQ-algorithm exposure assessment and statistically non-significant. Conclusions Asbestos-exposure estimates based on the TBQ were consistent with the REFERENCE expertise and yielded a steeper dose-response relationship than the JEM. For PAHs, results were less clear.
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Electronic ISSN: 1470-7926
    Topics: Medicine
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    Bladder cancer and occupational exposure to metalworking fluid mist: a counter-matched case-control study in French steel-producing factories (2018)
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    Publication Date: 2018-04-13
    Description: Objectives To assess the relationship between occupational exposure to metalworking fluids (MWFs) in the steel-producing industry and bladder cancer incidence. Methods A nested case–control study on bladder cancer was set up in a cohort of workers from six French steel-producing factories. Three controls were randomly selected for each incident bladder cancer case diagnosed from 2006 to 2012. Controls were matched to cases on age at diagnosis and counter-matched on a surrogate measure of exposure to MWFs derived from a job-exposure matrix. Cases (n=84) and controls (n=251) were face-to-face interviewed. Experts assessed occupational exposure to MWFs (straight, soluble and synthetic) using questionnaires and reports from factory visits. Occupational exposures were based on three metrics: duration, frequency-weighted duration and cumulative exposure index. Conditional multiple logistic regressions were used to determine ORs and 95% CIs, taking non-occupational and occupational exposure into account. Results In the 25 years before diagnosis, ORs increased significantly with duration of exposure to straight MWFs (OR=1.13 (1.02–1.25)) and increased with frequency-weighted duration of exposure to straight MWFs (OR=1.44 (0.97–2.14)). These results remained valid after adjusting for duration of smoking, average number of cigarettes smoked per day, time since smoking cessation and exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). ORs also increased with soluble MWFs but not significantly. No significant association was found with older exposures to MWFs or with exposure to synthetic MWFs. Conclusion The increased risk of bladder cancer observed among workers exposed to straight MWFs and to a lesser extent to soluble MWFs may be explained by the presence of carcinogens (such as PAH) in mineral oils component of straight and soluble oils. Prevention therefore remains necessary in sectors using MWFs.
    Print ISSN: 1351-0711
    Electronic ISSN: 1470-7926
    Topics: Medicine
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