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Background: The likelihood of being absent from work due to a health disorder may increase in the presence of work-related psychosocial risk factors, such as high job demands, and decrease with protective factors like organizational justice. Additionally, personal characteristics, including age, can influence workers’ risk exposure and overall health. Due to the physiological aging of individuals, the aging workforce is expected to be more susceptible to work disability and, consequently, more prone to sickness absence (SA). However, there’s a lack of consensus on measuring age in SA studies. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand better the relationship between age and SA when workers are exposed to work- related psychosocial factors. Method: This contribution is part of a larger study on SA prevention. Initially, a systematic literature review was conducted following the PRISMA Checklist to identify longitudinal studies exploring the causal relationship between work-related psychosocial factors and SA. Three online databases (i.e., PsycINFO, Medline, and Web of Science) were searched, and publications from 2012 to 2023 were included. Subsequently, a deeper analysis was undertaken to investigate how age was measured and utilized in the predictive models. Results: The systematic literature review included 31 longitudinal studies. Age in years was exclusively treated as a continuous variable in 23 studies, with the mean and standard deviation values reported in all of them. In four studies, age was solely a categorical variable, with varying age groups identified across articles. Two studies used age both continuously and categorically, depending on the statistical analyses conducted. Age information was absent in two other studies, and 11 studies did not report the age range. In the predictive models, age was mainly a covariate (n=23) with other non-work-related factors (e.g., sex) or an independent variable assessing its direct effect on SA (n=5). Three

Background: Work-related psychosocial factors (WRPFs), both risk and protective, play a relevant role in the development of health problems causing sickness absence (SA). The high rates of SA in health care workers (HCWs) lead to consequences on individuals, organizations, and society. While some regions legislated the duty of employers to consider WRPFs in their prevention plans, there is no consensus on which validated tools should be used to measure these factors. This systematic literature review has two objectives: 1) to list extant validated tools used to measure WRPFs predicting HCWs’ SA, and 2) to evaluate their quality based on their psychometric and practical properties. Method: This contribution is part of a larger PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review aimed at identifying the WRPFs that predict SA. Using the PsycINFO, Medline, and Web of Science online databases, the search first targeted prospective studies on WRPFs and SA published between 2012 and 2023. Then, the validated, self-report tools that yielded significant predictors (i.e., WRPFs) of SA in HCWs were identified. Next, an assessment of the properties, both psychometric (i.e., content validity, factorial validity, internal consistency, convergent validity, stability, and predictive validity of SA in HCWs) and practical (i.e., administration duration, ease of use, ease of interpretation, and availability in French or English), was performed following a rigorous method (Larivière et al., 2021; Gragnano et al., 2021; Villotti et al., 2021). The information reported in the included prospective studies and the validation studies of the tools was used to make the assessments. For each tool, the psychometric and practical properties were crossed, and an overall “excellent”, “good”, or “questionable” quality assessment was applied. Results: The search queries yielded 1087 records, 774 after duplicates, and 47 papers were fully read for eligibility. Based on inclusion criteria, 31 were included

Aim Cardiac dyssynchrony in patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (rToF) has been attributed to right bundle branch block (RBBB), fibrosis and/or the patches that are inserted during repair surgery. We aimed to investigate the basis of abnormal activation in rToF patients by mapping the electrical activation sequence during sinus rhythm (SR) and right ventricular (RV) pacing.Methods and Results A total of 17 patients were studied [13 with rToF, 2 with left bundle branch block (LBBB), and 2 without RBBB or LBBB (non-BBB)] during medically indicated cardiac surgery. During SR and RV pacing, measurements were performed using 112-electrode RV endocardial balloons (rToF only) and biventricular epicardial sock arrays (four of the rToF and all non-rToF patients). During SR, functional lines of block occurred in five rToF patients, while RV pacing caused functional blocks in four rToF patients. The line of block persisted during both SR and RV pacing in only 2 out of 13 rToF patients. Compared to SR, RV pacing increased dispersion of septal activation, but not dispersion of endocardial and epicardial activation of the RV free wall. During pacing, RV and left ventricular activation dispersion in rToF patients were comparable to that of the non-rToF patients.Conclusion The results of the present study indicate that the delayed activation in the right ventricle of rToF patients is predominantly due to block(s) in the Purkinje system and that conduction in RV tissue is fairly normal.

De Europese organisatie van jonge boeren, CEJA, roept tegenstanders van het Gemeenschappelijk Landbouwbeleid (GLB) op om het beleid toch te steunen. Het GLB is niet perfect, maar een startpunt voor verdere verbeteringen, vinden ze.