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Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 20/11/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Swedish Work, Illness, and Labour-Market Participation (SWIP) cohort
Country
 

  • Sweden
Name
  Katarina Kjellberg
Institution
  Karolinska Institutet
Email
  katarina.kjellberg@ki.se
Phone
  +46812337175
Website
 

  • https://ki.se/en/imm/a-sustainable-new-working-life-sustainable-work
Name of committee
  Regional ethical committé in Stockholm, Sweden
Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Katarina Kjellberg
Participation in pooled analyses
 

  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  Epidemiological studies, occupational ergonomic and psychosocial exposures, ICD diagnoses and registered sickness/disability benefits as outcomes
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • General population: National
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population
Inclusion criteria
  Living in Sweden year 2005
Enrollment
  Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
16

Men at enrollment
  2,700,000
Women at enrollment
  2,700,000
Men at last follow-up
  As enrolled
Women at last follow-up
  As enrolled
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  100
Comments
  Approximate numbers
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Death certificate
  • Disease incidence records
  • Hospital / physician diagnoses
  • Use of registers (specify)
Death certificate (specify)
 

  • National cause of death register
Disease incidence records (specify)
 

  • National patient registers
Hospital / Physician diagnoses (specify)
 

  • National patient registers
First follow-up period (provide year)
  1973
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2016
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  Any date until Dec 31, 2016
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Job-employment records
  • Registry-based
Occupational history/time frame
  Lifetime
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • FOB80, FOB85/90, SSYK96 (ISCO-88), SSYK12 (ISCO-08)
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Job Exposure Matrix
 

  • Other
Specify: Job Exposure Matrix / Other
  SWEJEM
Website
  https://ki.se/en/imm/a-sustainable-new-working-life-sustainable-work
Main categories
 

  • Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
  • Psychosocial domains
Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
 

  • Awkward work postures (e.g. kneeling/squatting, elevated arms, neck flection, back bent forward without support)
  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Repetitive work movements
  • Standing work
Psychosocial domains | Job task characteristics/organization of work
 

  • Job control, autonomy
  • Psychological job demands
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Death certificates
  • Medical records
  • Registry-based
Registry-based
 

  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Mortality
  • Morbidity
  • Disability
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • F Mental disorders
  • M Arthritis, arthrosis, systemic connective disorders, spine disorders
  • M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
F Mental disorders
 

  • Dementia
  • Personality and behavioural disorders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Mood [affective] disorders
  • Depression
  • Eating disorders
  • Mental retardation
  • Disorders of psychological development including autism and Aspergers syndrome
  • Other mental disorder, not otherwise specified
  • Other, please state
M Arthritis, arthrosis, systemic connective disorders, spine disorders
 

  • Bacterial arthritis
  • Reactive arthritis
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Juvenile arthritis
  • Gout
  • Other arthritis
  • Polyarthrosis
  • Coxarthrosis
  • Gonarthrosis [arthrosis of knee]
  • Arthrosis of first carpometacarpal joint
  • Other arthrosis
  • Deformities of fingers and toes
  • Deformities of limbs
  • Deformities of spine including scoliosis
  • Disorders of patella
  • Internal derangement of knee
  • Pathological dislocation and subluxation of joint
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Systemic sclerosis
  • Polymyalgia rheumatic
  • Other systemic involvement of connective tissue
  • Spine disk disorders
  • Lumbago with sciatica
  • Low back pain
  • Other, please state
M Disorders of muscles, bones, synovialis, bursa, cartilage
 

  • Myositis
  • Calcification and ossification of muscle
  • Contracture of muscle
  • Chronic crepitant synovitis of hand and wrist
  • Bursitis of hand
  • Olecranon bursitis
  • Prepatellar bursitis
  • Other bursitis
  • Rotator cuff syndrome
  • Bicipital tendinitis
  • Calcific tendinitis of shoulder
  • Impingement syndrome of shoulder
  • Medial epicondylitis
  • Lateral epicondylitis
  • Other Synovitis and tenosynovitis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Osteomalacia
  • Skeletal fluorosis
  • Osteomyelitis - Osteonecrosis
  • Chondropathies
  • Other, please state
Other health related outcomes
 

  • Sickness absence
  • Work participation
6. Other Information
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
 

  • Other (specify)
Specify: Other
  Conscription register (males, age 18)