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- Title
Paternal work stress and prolonged time to pregnancy.
- Authors
Mi-Sun Lee; Domyung Paek; Ki-Do Eum; Siegrist, Johannes; Jian Li; Hye-Eun Lee; Sung-Il Cho
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to explore an association between psychosocial stress at work in married men and their spouses’ prolonged time to pregnancy (TTP). All married male workers of a large Korean petrochemical enterprise and their wives fulfilling the selection criteria were included. Main selection criteria were lack of use of contraceptives and experienced pregnancy in recent past. Data were available from 322 couples. Psychosocial stress at work was measured by the effort–reward imbalance questionnaire. Prolonged TTP was measured by the “TTP questionnaire”. After adjustment for confounding effects of demographic and life-style characteristics and benzene exposure, delayed TTP, defined by frequency of first-cycle pregnancy, was associated with one standard deviation (SD) increase of the effort–reward ratio in the chronically stressed group of married men (OR = 0.47; 95% CI = 0.22–0.99) in logistic regression analysis. A similar, but somewhat weaker effect, was found for the overall group (OR = 0.67; 95% CI = 0.47–0.94). Paternal stress at work, as measured by effort–reward imbalance, seemed to be associated with a decreased number of conceptions in the first menstrual cycle.
- Subjects
JOB stress; MARRIED people; PETROLEUM chemicals; PREGNANCY; KOREANS; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; SOCIAL factors
- Publication
International Archives of Occupational & Environmental Health, 2008, Vol 82, Issue 2, p209
- ISSN
0340-0131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00420-008-0324-2