1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  DigiWork
Country
 
  • Finland
Name
  Annina Ropponen
Institution
  Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Email
  annina.ropponen@ttl.fi
Website
 
  • https://www.ttl.fi/en/research-and-development-projects/utilizing-digital-data-to-estimate-working-conditions-in-health-care-2020-2022/
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Annina Ropponen
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  DigiWork
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  Well-being at work is an important contributor to organizational performance and employee health. Factors affecting well-being and working conditions at workplaces are typically measured using personnel surveys. In this project focusing on employees working in health care, the aim is to examine whether these factors can be assessed using routine, daily accumulating digital data on personnel and organizational performance. With data-driven approaches, we will construct objective digital indicators for online monitoring of working hour characteristics and workload and evaluate their relevance for employee health and well-being at work measured e.g., as absences from work due to sickness, or quality of care.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Retrospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Industry / occupation-based
  • Hospital / patient-based
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 
Minimum Maximum Mean
15 74
Men at enrollment
  800
Women at enrollment
  8000
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  0
Men at last follow-up
  800
Women at last follow-up
  8000
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses
  • Use of registers (specify)
First follow-up period (provide year)
  2008
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2020
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  12
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Job-employment records
  • Registry-based
  • Job calendar
Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 
  • ISCO
Industry (specify coding system used)
 
  • Health care sector
Types of exposure measurements
 
  • Workplace sampling
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Data modelling
  • Measurements (external sampling, biomarkers)
Main categories
 
  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Organisation of work including working time
Organisation of work including working time | Employment conditions
 
  • Contract duration
  • Size of the workplace and company
  • Work contract type (i.e. permanent, term-contract, subcontract, temporary)
Organisation of work including working time | Shift work
 
  • Night (permanent or rotating)
  • Rotating (not night)
  • Regular/variable
Organisation of work including working time | Working hours
 
  • Duration
  • Regular/variable
6. Other Information
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 
  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register