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Journal of Occupational and Environmetal Medicine. Vol. 56, Iss. 4, April 2014

Association Between Exposure to Work Stressors and Cognitive Performance


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Objective: To examine the association between work stress and cognitive performance.

Methods: Cognitive performance of a total of 99 women (mean age = 47.3 years) working in hospital wards at either the top or bottom quartiles of job strain was assessed using validated tests that measured learning, short-term memory, and speed of memory retrieval.

Results: The high job strain group (n = 43) had lower performance than the low job strain group (n = 56) in learning (P = 0.025), short-term memory (P = 0.027), and speed of memory retrieval (P = 0.003). After controlling for education level, only the difference in speed of memory retrieval remained statistically significant (P = 0.010).

Conclusions: The association found between job strain and speed of memory retrieval might be one important factor explaining the effect of stress on work performance.

Keywords

Cognitive Performance, hospital wards, Work stressors

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