Psychological Health and Overweight and Obesity Among High Stressed Work Environments

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• Personal Author:
  Cherniack, Martin G. ; Faghri PD ; Huedo-Medina TB ; Mignano C
• Description:
  Correctional employees are recognized to underreport stress and stress symptoms and are known to have a culture that discourages appearing "weak" and seeking psychiatric help. This study assesses underreporting of stress and emotions. Additionally, it evaluates the relationships between stress and emotions on health behaviors. Correctional employees (n=317) completed physical assessments to measure body mass index (BMI), and surveys to assess perceived stress, emotions, and health behavior (diet, exercise, and sleep quality). Stress and emotion survey items were evaluated for under-reporting via skewness, kurtosis, and visual assessment of histograms. Structural equation modeling evaluated relationships between stress/emotion and health behaviors. Responses to stress and negatively worded emotions were non-normally distributed whereas responses to positively-worded emotions were normally distributed. Emotion predicted diet, exercise, and sleep quality whereas stress predicted only sleep quality. As stress was a poor predictor of health behaviors and responses to stress and negatively worded emotions were non-normally distributed it may suggests correctional employees are under-reporting stress and negative emotions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Correctional Facilities Emotions Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Stress Behavior Patterns BMI Body Mass Index Correctional Employees Correctional Facilities Emotion Health Behavior Job Stress Mental Health Obesity Psychological Factors Structural Equation Modeling Total Worker Health TWH Weight Factors Work Environment

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• ISSN:
  2380-5528
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049917
• Citation:
  Obes Open Access 2015 Jul; 1(1):doi:10.16966/2380-5528.101
• Contact Point Address:
  Pouran D Faghri, Professor of Health Promotion Sciences, Department of Allied Health Sciences and Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, USA
• Email:
  Pouran.faghri@uconn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  Obesity, Open Access
• End Date:
  20210831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f6167c9532786e0bac7de361546575a04576e67c58874d2e6c8fc51877b8aba756b2a692f453ff78044109deb75680853fcd609198609e6d781e85e5d56a7edf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210509/cdc_210509_DS1.pdf
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