Validity and reliability of a work history questionnaire derived from the Job Content Questionnaire.

摘要: Job design risk factors for hypertension and heart disease have often been assessed by the Content Questionnaire (JCQ). characteristics are typically only once, however, which can result in misclassification bias results toward null. Newer approaches, assess job over a working life, hampered need to ask numerous questions about each job, increasing survey length potentially reducing response rates. Participants Work Site Blood Pressure Study, prospective study of psychosocial ambulatory blood pressure, completed JCQ their current jobs. At later dates, 213 employed men, subset original cohort, retrospectively History (WHQ), short version JCQ, past job. The WHQ exhibited moderate validity assessing characteristics, weak association with systolic expected patterns change time. Thus, it may be valuable tool measuring health effects historical