Jørgen Skotte's research while affiliated with National Research Centre for the Working Environment and other places

... Methodological issues in LPA measurement may contribute to adverse and inconsistent findings in obesity research, in addition to inconsistent measures of obesity and confounding factors such as diet (53). In adults, a study comparing relationships between adiposity markers and LPA assessed with thigh-worn and hipworn accelerometers found opposing results between the two assessment methods, where associations were positive with thigh placement and negative with hip placement (54). To the best of our knowledge, only one study has examined LPA and obesity in adolescents using thigh-worn accelerometers (55). ...

... Correct ranking of JEM-based exposure estimates is important for research on exposure-response relationships. If the ranking of the exposure estimates is correct, inaccuracies may be rectified by calibration against measurements/observations. 32 However, an investigation of the agreement between expert ratings of the job groups in the lower body JEM and technical measurements/ observations was out of reach for us due to resource constraints. Instead, we chose a number of job titles, where it would be feasible to perform measurements/ observations. ...

... Compared with other device-based classification measures, ActiPASS has demonstrated excellent accuracy across wake time movement behaviours (>90%) and sleep (84%) and has been validated for use across different thigh-worn accelerometer brands. 15,[38][39][40][41] Five movement behaviours were classified: sleep, SB (sitting or lying episodes outside of sleep intervals), standing, LIPA (ambulatory movement without purposeful walking, walking with cadence <100 steps/min), and MVPA (running, cycling, inclined stepping, walking with cadence ≥100 steps/min). 15,[38][39][40][41][42] Participants with at least one valid wear day (≥20 h of wear/day), ≥1 period of walking detection, and >0 min of sleep were included in analyses. ...

... ProPASS is an international research collaboration platform consisting of 15+ observational cohort studies with thigh-worn accelerometry. 28 For this initial project, we included cross-sectional data from six participating studies: The Maastricht Study (TMS; The Netherlands, n = 7515), 29 the 1970 British Birth Cohort Study (BCS70; UK, n = 5229), 30 the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH; Australia, n = 941), 31 the Danish PHysical ACTivity cohort with Objective measurements cohort (DPhacto; Denmark, n = 771), 32 the Nijmegen Exercise Study (NES; The Netherlands, n = 537), 33 and the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA; Finland, n = 253). 34 Ethical approval and informed consent were provided at the cohort level and included consent for future data analysis; an overview of each study is provided in Supplementary data online, Table S1 with complete study details available elsewhere. ...

... Inclinometry can estimate the percentage of time a person spends sitting, as well as the position and movement of the head, back, and upper arm Unge et al., 2007). Palm et al. (2018) used triaxial accelerometers to measure cleaners' upper arm elevation and sitting/non-sitting times. The data from inclinometry were used to demonstrate the positive impact of ergonomics guidelines , back care educational programs (Hultman et al., 1984), and organizational characteristics such as work task enlargement, and increased responsibilities at work (Unge et al., 2007). ...

... Field studies focusing on resident handlings often rely on self-reported biomechanical exposures, which are prone to bias (Podsakoff et al. 2003) and they only consider one single resident handling characteristic at the time as the main exposure (Koppelaar et al. 2011;Holtermann et al. 2013). As an alternative to self-reported data, observational exposure assessment tools have been developed to assess different exposures in eldercare (Jakobsen et al. 2015;Karstad et al. 2018b). Also, several resident handling conditions should be evaluated together, since they are likely to occur concomitantly (Soria-Oliver et al. 2021), such as when handling a resident alone, without any assistive device, and being interrupted by a coworker who needs urgent help. ...

... Muscle strength has been associated with muscle thickness (32). Thus, Madsen et al. (33) showed that patients with TTH exhibited decreased muscle strength in the neck extensor muscle and cervical extension/ flexion ratio compared to healthy people. Therefore, according to our findings, strength training can improve muscle thickness in patients with TTH and may result in a decrease of disability (18). ...

... An increased heart rate and reduced heart rate variability have been associated with work-related physical and mental stress, particularly reflecting the dominant role of the sympathetic nervous system during work [47,64]. The HRV parameter SDNN, a parameter recommended for physical stress, tended to be lower in the condition without work breaks (38 ms) than in the conditions with passive (40 ms) and active work breaks (39 ms). ...

... Physical therapies. Physical therapy, aerobic exercise, strength training, massage and cervical manipulation in particular may be beneficial in the management of TTH [230][231][232][233] . In an open randomized trial, strength training with patient education decreased the average monthly headache frequency from 24.5 to 20.5 days in female adolescents with TTH, but no significant differences between treatment groups were detected 230 . ...

... Many studies showed; Sedentary work leads to a number of health complications, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity. 8,9 Physical inactivity may increase risk of cardiovascular disease due to changes in central pathways involved in autonomic nervous system regulation. Whilst research linking physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviors and autonomic function is limited, available evidence suggests that some relationship exist. ...