Psychosocial Factors Related to Lateral and Medial Epicondylitis: Results from Pooled Study Analyses

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• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Thiese, Matthew S. ; Hegmann, Kurt T. ; Kapellusch, Jay ; Merryweather, Andrew ; Bao, Stephen ; Silverstein, Barbara ; Tang, Ruoliang ; Garg, Arun
• Description:
  Objective
  
  The goal is to assess the relationships between psychosocial factors and both medial and lateral epicondylitis after adjustment for personal and job physical exposures.
  
  Methods
  
  1824 participants were included in pooled analyses. 10 psychosocial factors were assessed.
  
  Results
  
  121 (6.6%) and 34 (1.9%) participants have lateral and medial epicondylitis respectively. Nine psychosocial factors assessed had significant trends or associations with lateral epicondylitis, the largest of which was between physical exhaustion after work and lateral epicondylitis with and odds ratio of 7.04 (95% CI=2.02-24.51). Eight psychosocial factors had significant trends or relationships with medial epicondylitis, with the largest being between mental exhaustion after work with an odds ratio of 6.51 (95% CI=1.57-27.04).
  
  Conclusion
  
  The breadth and strength of these associations after adjustment for confounding factors demonstrate meaningful relationships that need to be further investigated in prospective analyses.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic Cross-Sectional Studies Fatigue Female Humans Male Middle Aged Occupational Diseases Odds Ratio Prospective Studies Risk Factors Surveys And Questionnaires Tennis Elbow

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• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 58(6):588-593.
• Pubmed ID:
  27206118
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4900945
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 OH009712/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; R01 OH010474/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; T42 OH008414/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; U01 OH007917/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8f485eb7409da32c72b02eaa3904350326225fa6b1c5598e6bc30d59df4258ff
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39859/cdc_39859_DS1.pdf
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