| 1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION |
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Cohort name
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The Swedish construction worker's cohort
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Country
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Name
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Martin Andersson
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Institution
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Umeå University
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Email
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martin.andersson@umu.se
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Name of committee
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The Swedish ethical review authority
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
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Martin Andersson
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Data access policy (briefly describe)
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Access is granted by a steering committee.
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Participation in pooled analyses
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- 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).
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Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
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The study of occupational factors and health related outcomes in Swedish construction workers.
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Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Internal study population
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Enrollment
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Completed
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Age range at entry (subcohort)
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Maximum |
Mean |
Please describe |
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55 |
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Men at enrollment
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369882
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Women at enrollment
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19250
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Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
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80
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Comments
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The participation in the health examinations among workers employed in the Swedish construction industry was estimated at about 80%.
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| 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP |
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Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Use of registers (specify)
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Specify: Use of registers
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- Linkage with e.g. the Swedish death registry and the Swedish inpatient care registry.
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| 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES |
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Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Questionnaire, Personal (Self-reporting or interview)
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Occupational history/time frame
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Current, at enrollment
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Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
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Specify: Job Exposure Matrix / Other
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Cohort specific
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Main categories
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- Dusts and fibres
- Solvents
- Metals and metal oxides
- Physical agents
- Ergonomics, physical workload, and injury related
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Dusts and fibres | Fibres
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- Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)
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Dusts and fibres | Inorganic dusts
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- Inorganic dusts, not specified
- Quartz (quartz or crystalline silica containing dusts)
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Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts
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- Organic dusts (not specified)
- Wood dust (not specified)
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| 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED |
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Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Mortality
- Morbidity
- Disability
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| 6. Other Information |
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Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
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- Cancer incidence
- Employment status
- Hospital discharge
- Medication usage
- Migration
- Mortality register
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