Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 02/01/2026
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  ATOHS
Country
 

  • Sweden

Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
  Stockholm
Name
  Emma Brulin
Institution
  Karolinska Institutet
Email
  emma.brulin@ki.se
Phone
  +46730526602
Personal website
  https://ki.se/en/people/emma-brulin#about-me
Website
 

  • https://www.vr.se/english/swecris.html#/project/2016-00748_Forte

Name of committee
  Regional Ethics Review Board, Stockholm
Or provide website
 

  • https://www.camm.regionstockholm.se/var-verksamhet/projekt/atohs-arbetstider-och-halsa-i-sjukvarden/

Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Emma Brulin
Data access policy (briefly describe)
  De-identified data potentially available
Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
  The European Occupational Exposome and Health Cohort Consortium
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
  Investigate the effects of night work and shift work on risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, pregnancy outcome, and psychological diseases/diagnoses
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Prospective cohort
  • Retrospective cohort

Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Industry / occupation-based

Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Internal study population

Inclusion criteria
  All healthcare workers in Stockholm County employed >1 year
Enrollment
  Ongoing
Age range at entry (main cohort)
 

Minimum Maximum Mean
17 75 40.1

Men at enrollment
  15,000
Women at enrollment
  45,000
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
  0
Men at last follow-up
  11,777
Women at last follow-up
  36,392
Children (<18 years) at last follow-up
  0
Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
  100
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 

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

Disease incidence records (specify)
 

  • Death, cancer, Birth outcome, CVD, Common mental disorders, sick-leave

Specify: Use of registers
 

  • National and regional registers

First follow-up period (provide year)
  2008
Last follow-up period (provide year)
  2023
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
  1
Participation at last follow-up (if known)
  100
Comments
  Note: there is no personal identification in the cohort after matching to central registers. It is not possible to add more data from other registers.  
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Job-employment records
  • Registry-based

Occupational history/time frame
  Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
  Yes
Occupation (specify coding system used)
 

  • Job titles are available, most common titles are nurses and assistant nurses

Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Other (specify)

Specify: Other
  Registry based data on working hours day-by-day
Main categories
 

  • Organisation of work including working time

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

Comments
  Detailed data on working hours day-by day for entire study period. Smoking data available for women in the cohort who ever were pregnant.
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Registry-based

Registry-based
 

  • Birth register
  • Cancer incidence
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register

Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 

  • Registry-based

Registry-based
 

  • Birth register
  • Cancer incidence
  • Employment status
  • Hospital discharge
  • Medication usage
  • Mortality register
  • Migration

Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 

  • Morbidity

Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
 

  • C + D Neoplasms
  • F Mental disorders
  • G Disease in the nervous system
  • I Heart disease
  • I Cerebrovascular diseases
  • O+P Pregnancy and labour

C + D Neoplasms
 

  • Malignant neoplasm of breast
  • Malignant neoplasms of male genital organs

F Mental disorders
 

  • Depression

G Disease in the nervous system
 

  • Sleep disorders

I Heart disease
 

  • Acute myocardial infarction

I Cerebrovascular diseases
 

  • Intracerebral haemorrhage
  • Cerebral infarction
  • Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction

O+P Pregnancy and labour
 

  • Oedema, proteinuria and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium
  • Eclampsia in pregnancy, labour or puerperium
  • Diabetes mellitus in pregnancy
  • Preterm delivery
  • Extremely low birth weight
  • Other low birth weight

Other health related outcomes
 

  • Sickness absence

6. Other Information
 

  • Demographics
  • Education
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Smoking

Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded
  The cohort has recently been updated to include employees hired up to 2023, new analyses are under way.