caa a22 4500 46319411X CHVBK 20180406164917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00420-006-0168-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00420-006-0168-6 Fatigue, emotional exhaustion and perceived health complaints associated with work-related characteristics in employees with and without chronic diseases [Elektronische Daten] [N. Donders, K. Roskes, J. van der Gulden] Objectives: Ageing of the Dutch working force and increasingly more stringent restrictions regarding early retirement and disability benefits are leading to higher numbers of workers with ill health. Until now, only a few studies have explored how employees with ill health perceive their work. This study investigated possible differences in scores on fatigue, emotional exhaustion, perceived health complaints and various work-related characteristics between chronically ill (CIWs) and non-chronically ill workers (NCIWs), as well as differences in associations between work- and health-related characteristics. Methods: A questionnaire was sent to all employees of a Dutch university to collect data on perceived work-related and health-related characteristics (response 49.1%). Differences in various scores were analysed using χ 2-tests and the general linear model. Associations between the work- and the health-related characteristics were determined by multiple linear regression analyses in the CIWs (n=444) and NCIWs (n=1,347) separately. Interaction terms were included to detect differences between the two groups. Results: The results indicated that the CIWs had less favourable scores on the three health-related characteristics. Also, the CIWs scored less favourably than the NCIWs on almost all the work-related characteristics. In the two groups, negative work-related aspects, such as higher work pressure, contributed most to explaining the variance in the health-related characteristics. However, in the CIWs, fatigue was not explained by the work-related aspects as much as in the NCIWs. In the CIWs, the association between unpleasant treatment and the health-related characteristics was stronger than in the NCIWs, but there were indications that autonomy, possibilities for learning and social support from superiors also played an important role. Conclusions: CIWs perceived more fatigue, emotional exhaustion and health complaints than NCIWs. There were different patterns of associations between work- and health-related characteristics in the NCIWs and CIWs. Future studies on associations between work-related characteristics and health should take the presence of chronic disease into account. Springer-Verlag, 2007 Chronically ill workers nationallicence Fatigue nationallicence Health complaints nationallicence Psychosocial workload nationallicence Donders N. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut Roskes K. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut van der Gulden J. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Springer-Verlag 80/7(2007-07-01), 577-587 0340-0131 80:7<577 2007 80 420 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-006-0168-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-006-0168-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Donders N. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roskes K. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Gulden J. Department of Social Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 117 SG, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Springer-Verlag 80/7(2007-07-01), 577-587 0340-0131 80:7<577 2007 80 420 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer