In order to evaluate the conditions of work across occupational categories and to compare the relative exposures of workers to adverse work environments, the so-called polar plots were used which allow a straightforward comparison of the relative weight of prevalences across groups.
Women with a pre-pregnancy BMI under 15 and over 50 will be excluded in this study as such extreme BMIs must be proposed to represent such an adverse environment for the foetus that possible effects on the child may be due to this rather than an adverse psychosocial work environment.
Our results are comparable to those found in more developed countries; they provide additional evidence of an association between an adverse psychosocial work environment and health-related behaviors.
Third, given the foundation of our measurement of stressful work in established theoretical models of a health-adverse psychosocial work environment, results may point to relevant proximal and distal entry points of intervention measures that aim at reducing stressful work and improving working people's health.
Adverse psychosocial work environments may lead to impaired mental health, but it is still a matter of conjecture if demonstrated associations are causal or biased.
This is in keeping with work by Hansen (2011) and Brugha et al. (2010), which revealed that the public to private migration of health workers in Zambia [ 26]was caused by increased workloads and adverse working environments.
The aim of this paper is to estimate the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorders (MPD) among Brazilian bank workers and to investigate whether they are associated with an adverse psychosocial working environment.
As studies have pointed out the link between adverse psychosocial factors in the work environment and the psychological and physical health in nurses of other countries [ 19, 20], we hypothesize that Chinese nurses in public hospitals may find it difficult to adapt to the stress in their work and, as a result, may develop mental health problems such as anxiety.
11 15 Several studies have presented associations between nurses' work environment and patient outcomes like adverse events, risk-adjusted mortality and patient satisfaction.
The European Commission [ 9] defined stress as a pattern of emotional, cognitive, behavioural, and physiological reactions to adverse and noxious aspects of work content, work organisation, and work environment.
