Abstract
Objective <p>To examine whether characteristics of <a></a><a>workplace psychosocial resources are associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes</a> among employees. </p> <h3>Research Design and Methods</h3> <p>Participants were 49,835 employees (77% women, aged 40-65 and diabetes-free at baseline) from the Finnish Public Sector cohort study. Characteristics of horizontal (culture of collaboration and support from colleagues) and vertical (leadership quality and organizational procedural justice) psychosocial resources were self-reported. Incident type 2 diabetes (n=2148) was ascertained via linkage to electronic health records from national registers. We used latent-class modeling to assess the clustering of resource characteristics. Cox proportional hazard models were used to examine the association between the identified clusters and risk of type 2 diabetes during 10.9 years of follow-up, adjusting for age, sex, marital status, educational level, type of employment contract, comorbidity and diagnosed mental disorders.</p> <h3>Results</h3> <p>We identified four patterns of workplace psychosocial resources: <a>‘unfavorable’; ‘favorable vertical’; ‘favorable</a><a></a><a> horizontal’</a>; and ‘favorable vertical and horizontal.’ <a>Compared with the ‘unfavorable’, ‘favorable vertical’ (HR=0.87 95%CI 0.78;0.97), ‘favorable horizontal’ (HR=0.77 95%CI 0.67;0.88), and ‘favorable vertical and horizontal’ (HR=0.77 95%CI 0.68;0.86) resources were associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes</a>, with the strongest associations seen in employees at age 55 or older (P<sub>interaction</sub>=0.03). These associations were robust to multivariable adjustments and were not explained by reverse causation.</p> <h3>Conclusions</h3> <p>Employees working in a favorable level of culture of collaboration, support from colleagues, leadership quality, and organizational procedural justice have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those without such favorable workplace psychosocial resources.</p>
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