Validity and Reliability of a Work History Questionnaire Derived from the Job Content Questionnaire

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• Personal Author:
  Landsbergis PA ; Pickering TG ; Schnall PL ; Schwartz JE
• Description:
  Job design risk factors for hypertension and heart disease have often been assessed by the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ). Job characteristics are typically assessed only once, however, which can result in misclassification and bias results toward the null. Newer approaches, which assess job characteristics over a working life, are hampered by the need to ask numerous questions about each job, increasing survey length and potentially reducing response rates. Participants in the Work Site Blood Pressure Study, a prospective study of psychosocial factors and ambulatory blood pressure, completed the JCQ about their current jobs. At later dates, 213 employed men, a subset of the original cohort, retrospectively completed the Work History Questionnaire (WHQ), a short version of the JCQ, for each past job. The WHQ exhibited moderate validity for assessing past job characteristics, a weak association with systolic blood pressure, and expected patterns of change over time. Thus, it may be a valuable tool for measuring the health effects of historical job characteristics, which often change over time. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Blood Pressure Health Effects Heart Disease Hypertension Job Design Psychological Factors Questionnaires
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  44
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058159
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2002 Nov; 44(11):1037-1047
• Contact Point Address:
  Paul Landsbergis, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1043, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029-6574
• Email:
  paul.landsbergis@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aa8eb7ad36d843c1ade496b7c2f9fcb383eeccb8f877cacac1f788e740d239c737da42b554bef2d3f02a0c2924dbf5fa47ff72916dc3e5e6cdcb42cf3897d3b9
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221298/cdc_221298_DS1.pdf
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