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Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery

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  • Homer, C.J.
  • James, S.A.
  • Siegel, E.

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We investigated whether work-related psychologic stress - defined as work characterized by both high psychologic demands and limited control over the response to these demands - increases a woman's risk of delivering a preterm, low birthweight infant. We studied 786 employed pregnant women included in the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience, Youth Cohort (NLSY), a nationally representative sample of 12,686 young adults. Data concerning work status, job title, and other factors affecting pregnancy outcome were obtained from the NLSY. Assessment of job experience was based on job title, using an established catalogue of occupation characteristics. After accounting for the physical exertion entailed in a job, occupational psychologic stress as measured by job title was not associated with perterm, low birthweight delivery for the sample as a whole (Relative risk = 1.16, 95% confidence interval .45, 2.95). For those women who did not want to remain in the work force, work-related stress increased their risk of experiencing this outcome (RR = 8.1, 95% CI 1.5, 50.2). Personal motivation toward work, as well as the physical effort of work, should be considered in evaluating the impact of a job's psychologic characteristics on pregnancy outcome.

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  • Homer, C.J. & James, S.A. & Siegel, E., 1990. "Work-related psychosocial stress and risk of preterm, low birthweight delivery," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 80(2), pages 173-177.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1990:80:2:173-177_2
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    1. Dhaval M. Dave & Muzhe Yang, 2022. "Maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy," Review of Economics of the Household, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 57-102, March.
    2. Ruggero Andrisano-Ruggieri & Mario Capunzo & Pietro Crescenzo & Riccardo Savastano & Giovanna Truda & Francesco De Caro & Manuela Pennisi & Giovanni Boccia, 2016. "Inconsistency of Sentinel Events and No Gender Difference in the Measurement of Work-Related Stress," SAGE Open, , vol. 6(1), pages 21582440166, February.
    3. Joël Floris & Kaspar Staub & Ulrich Woitek, 2016. "The benefits of intervention: birth weights in Basle 1912-1920," ECON - Working Papers 236, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
    4. Ström, Sara, 2005. "Childbearing and psycho-social work life conditions in Sweden 1991-2000," Arbetsrapport 2005:13, Institute for Futures Studies.
    5. Dhaval M. Dave & Muzhe Yang, 2019. "Maternal and Fetal Health Effects of Working during Pregnancy," NBER Working Papers 26343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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