1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) Australian arm ( Australian Nurses’ Work and Health Study)
Country
 
  • Australia
Name
  Malcolm Sim
Institution
  Monash University
Email
  Malcolm.Sim@monash.edu
Personal website
  https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/malcolm-sim
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Name
  Helen Kelsall
Institution
  Monash University
Email
  Helen.Kelsall@monash.edu
Personal website
  https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/helen-kelsall
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Name
  David Coggon
Institution
  Southampton General Hospital
Email
  dnc@mrc.soton.ac.uk
Personal website
  https://www.southampton.ac.uk/medicine/about/staff/dnc.page#contact
Website
 
  • https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/coeh/research/completed/cultural-and-psychosocial-influences-on-disability
Name of committee
  Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee 2006/913 – International study of musculoskeletal symptoms and associated disability
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Prof Malcolm Sim
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To compare the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms and associated disability among nurses and to explore risk factors for the incidence and persistence of symptoms and disability.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Industry / occupation-based
Inclusion criteria
  The subjects will be aged 20-59 years, and will have worked in their current job for at least 12 months. The latter eligibility criterion is to ensure: a) that participants have been employed in a relevant job throughout the 12 month period over which symptoms will be ascertained at baseline; and b) that itinerant workers are not recruited, as these are likely to be more difficult to follow up. Ideally, participants should be full-time workers. However if they work part-time, they should be performing the relevant activities for at least 4 hours per day.
Exclusion criteria
  Workers below 20 years or over 59 years, those who have worked for less than 12 months prior to inclusion and those who do not perform the relevant activities for at least 4 hours per day at the time of baseline inclusion will be excluded.
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 
Minimum Maximum Mean
40.9
Age range at entry (subcohort)
 
Minimum Maximum Mean Please describe
20 59
Men at enrollment
  99
Women at enrollment
  1012
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  0
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  38.6
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Active (contact with participants)
Active (contact with participants) (specify)
 
  • Self-administered questionnaire
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
  • Questionnaire, Personal (Occupational/industry modules)
Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
  No
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Expert assessment
Main categories
 
  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Psychosocial domains
  • Organisation of work including working time
Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 
  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Standing work
Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 
  • Work engagement
Organisation of work including working time | Employment conditions
 
  • Job insecurity
  • Lack of access to benefits, collective bargaining, social protection
  • Low pay
  • Work contract type (i.e. permanent, term-contract, subcontract, temporary)
Organisation of work including working time | Shift work
 
  • Night (permanent or rotating)
Organisation of work including working time | Working hours
 
  • Duration
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 
  • Questionnaire, individual (self-recording or interview)
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 
  • F Mental disorders
  • M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
F Mental disorders
 
  • Personality and behavioural disorders
  • Depression
  • Other mental disorder, not otherwise specified
  • Other, please state
F Mental disorders | Other (specify)
  Psychological morbidity (12 item version of the General Health Questionnaire, GHQ-12).
M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
 
  • Other, please state
M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage | Other (specify)
  Muscular symptoms and associated disability in the past 12 months and past 4 weeks: the questions on musculoskeletal symptoms will assess symptoms related to six anatomical sites in the past 12 months and past 4 weeks. The six sites are low back, neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist-hand and knee which are depicted in the questionnaire with a shaded diagram of the site
Other health related outcomes
 
  • Work participation
6. Other Information
 
  • Demographics
  • Education
  • Personality
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking