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. 2001 Nov-Dec;92(6):468-74.
doi: 10.1007/BF03404542.

[Validity of occupational stress and decision latitude on health in the National Population Health Survey of 1994-95]

[Article in French]
C Brisson  1 , B Larocque
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[Validity of occupational stress and decision latitude on health in the National Population Health Survey of 1994-95]

[Article in French]
C Brisson et al. Can J Public Health. 2001 Nov-Dec.

Abstract
in English, French

Psychosocial environment at work is now considered a health determinant. The National Population Health Survey (NPHS) of 1994-95 is the first study in which psychological demands and decision latitude at work were measured in a random sample of the Canadian population. However, psychometric properties of the scales used in NPHS to measure these factors are not known. The objective of the present paper was to evaluate some validity parameters of the scales used in the NPHS by comparison to the original scales recommended by Karasek to measure these factors. Results of the current study support the validity of the decision latitude scale. However, validity of the psychological demand scale is more limited.

L’environnement psychosocial du travail est maintenant reconnu comme un déterminant de la santé. L’Enquête nationale sur la santé de la population (ENSP) de 1994–95 est la première étude où la demande psychologique et la latitude décisionnelle ont été mesurées auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de la population canadienne. Toutefois, les qualités psychométriques des indices utilisés dans l’ENSP pour mesurer ces contraintes ne sont pas connues. L’objectif de la présente étude est d’évaluer certains paramètres de validité des indices utilisés dans l’ENSP par comparaison aux indices originaux recommandés par Karasek. Les résultats de la présente étude supportent la validité de l’indice de latitude décisionnelle utilisé dans l’ENSP. Par contre, la validité de l’indice de demande psychologique est plus limitée.

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