Clinical trial NCT03634410: SeniorWorkingLife (Danish Title: SeniorArbejdsLiv)
Official title: SeniorWorkingLife (Danish Title: SeniorArbejdsLiv)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Conditions: Work Related Upper Limb Disorder
Musculoskeletal Pain
Work Accident
Work Injury
Work-Related Stress Disorder
Occupational Exposure
Occupation-related Stress Disorder
Lead sponsor: National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
Collaborators: name: TrygFonden, Denmark
name: Team Arbejdsliv
name: Aalborg University
name: Statistics Denmark
First posted: 2018-08-16
Enrollment: 30000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: People in Denmark aged +50. The population will be drawn by Statistics Denmark

Brief summary: Due to demographic changes across Europe there are strong political interests in maintaining the labour force by prolonging working life, i.e. increasing retirement age. The present study investigates push and stay mechanisms for labor market attachment among older (+50 yrs) workers or people who have recently retired.

Detailed description: Due to demographic changes across Europe there are strong political interests in maintaining the labour force by prolonging working life, i.e. increasing retirement age. The present study investigates push and stay mechanisms for labor market attachment among older workers or people who have recently retired. The study is a questionnaire survey, which is already funded. The ambition is to apply for further funding to do a cohort that is repeated every 2-3 years, as well as long-term register follow-up in Danish national registers about health and work.

The study has 4 target groups:

1. employed
2. unemployed
3. early retirement
4. disability pension

The questionnaire survey is sent to 30,000 Danish citizens and contains the following 14 areas:

1. Basic information (demographics, employment status etc.)
2. Broad overview of factors that may influence labor market attachment (health, working conditions, economic factors)
3. Role of the workplace
4. Age-discrimination
5. Economy
6. Specific questions about the possibility for 'early retirement' among employed and unemployed
7. Gradual retirement (e.g. possibility for reduced time or responsibility)
8. Competencies and continuing education/training of skills
9. Return-to-work
10. New technologies at the workplace
11. Job satisfaction and well-being
12. Working environment (physical, psychosocial etc.)
13. Lifestyle
14. Health and functional capacity

The study is supported by a grant from TrygFonden

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Labor market status of:

* employed (employed at least 20/37 hours per week 1.quarter of 2018) OR
* unemployed (unemployed at least 20/37 hours per week 1.quarter of 2018) OR
* early retirement OR
* disability pension

Exclusion Criteria:

* those that do not fullfill the above inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Psychosocial Working Environment
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Physical Working Environment
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Role of the workplace
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Age-discrimination
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Economy
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Early retirement
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Gradual retirement
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Competencies
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Return-to-work
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: New technologies
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Job satisfaction
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Sickness absence
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Disability pension
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Mortality
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 5 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Lifestyle
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Health
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
measure: Functional capacity
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 2 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Copenhagen
country: Denmark
facility: National Research Centre for the Working Environment
Study officials:
References:
citation: Vinstrup J, Sundstrup E, Andersen LL. Psychosocial stress and musculoskeletal pain among senior workers from nine occupational groups: Cross-sectional findings from the SeniorWorkingLife study. BMJ Open. 2021 Mar 29;11(3):e043520. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043520.
citation: Blafoss R, Skovlund SV, Lopez-Bueno R, Calatayud J, Sundstrup E, Andersen LL. Is hard physical work in the early working life associated with back pain later in life? A cross-sectional study among 5700 older workers. BMJ Open. 2020 Dec 7;10(12):e040158. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040158.
citation: Skovlund SV, Blafoss R, Sundstrup E, Thomassen K, Andersen LL. Joint association of physical work demands and leg pain intensity for work limitations due to pain in senior workers: cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2020 Nov 18;20(1):1741. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09860-6.
citation: Andersen LL, Sundstrup E. Study protocol for SeniorWorkingLife - push and stay mechanisms for labour market participation among older workers. BMC Public Health. 2019 Jan 31;19(1):133. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6461-6.