Tarja Heponiemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarja Heponiemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarja |
| FAMILY NAME | Heponiemi |
| SIGNATURE | HEPONIEMI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8540-049X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Perceived effects of digitalization on social work in Finland
Drawing on a socio-technical approach, we examined Finnish social welfare professionals’ (n = 990) perceptions of the effects of digitalization on their work and how these are associated with factors related to work and client information system usage using mixed graphical modelling. Overall, perceptions were predominantly positive. Digitally replaced services were most common in the non-public sector. Higher client information system ratings wer…
Use and changes in the use of the Internet for obtaining services among older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the digitalisation of services that poses the risk of digital exclusion, especially among older adults. We examined the predictors of Internet use for services and its increase or decrease among a longitudinal population-based sample of 1426 older adults from Finland aged between 70 and 100 years, gathered in 2017 and 2020. High education and high income positively predicted the use of the Internet …
Digital inequality in Finland
In recent years, digital health care and social welfare services have been spreading rapidly and partly replacing face-to-face services, particularly in developed countries. This may lead to a pronounced digital inequality. This population-based study of Finnish adults ( N = 4495) examined the associations of offline resources with perceived benefits from online services and the mediating effects of access, skills and attitudes in these associati…
Tailoring EHRs for Specific Working Environments Improves Work Well-Being of Physicians
Electronic health records (EHRs) have an impact on physicians' well-being and stress levels. We studied physicians' experiences with EHRs and their experienced time pressure and self-rated stress by an electronic questionnaire sent to Finnish physicians aged under 65 in 2017. Our sample was 2980 physicians working in the public sector, health care centers (35.5%) or hospitals (64.5%). Experienced technical problems were positively associated with…
Psychosocial Risk Prevention in a Global Occupational Health Perspective. A Descriptive Analysis
This study aimed to find out which countries around the world require psychosocial hazards and workplace violence to be assessed by employers through a mandatory occupational risk assessment process and to compare the type of legislation between countries. We systematically searched the International Labour Office (ILO) "LEGOSH" database for documents published during the period between December 2017 and February 2018. The search included 132 cou…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Are skin disorders related to work strain in hospital workers? A cross-sectional study
Job stress plays a significant role in triggering skin disorders among hospital workers and psychological problems do not appear to be the mechanism behind this association. Occupational health education and training should focus on reducing job demands and occupational stress in order to prevent skin problems among hospital workers
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity
BACKGROUND: Most prospective studies on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health have been conducted using subjective health indicators and short-term follow-ups. The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time. METHODS: The study was conducted in a multinational forest industry …
Sense of coherence and diabetes
The results suggest that besides focusing on well-known risk factors for diabetes, strengthening SOC in employees of = <50 years of age can also play a role in attempts to tackle increasing rates of diabetes
Relationship between job strain and smoking cessation
Smoking cessation may be less likely in workplaces with high strain and low control. Policies and programs addressing employee job strain and control might also contribute to the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions
The effects of job demands and low job control on work–family conflict
The present study examined whether perceptions of organizational fairness (the procedural and interactional components) were able to diminish the negative effects of high job demands and low job control on the balance between work and family. The study participants were 713 women working in long‐term care for elderly people in Finland. The results showed that high job demands, low job control, and unfair decision making were associated with high …
Effort-reward imbalance at work and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors
This study suggests that a high ratio of occupational efforts relative to rewards may be associated with an elevated risk of having multiple lifestyle risk factors. However, an unexpected association between low effort and a higher likelihood of risk factor co-occurrence as well as the absence of data on overcommitment (and thereby a lack of full test of the ERI model) warrant caution in regard to the extent to which the entire ERI model is suppo…
The longitudinal effects of social support and hostility on depressive tendencies
Depressive Symptoms and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Young Adults
OBJECTIVE: Depression and coronary heart disease are often comorbid conditions, but the mechanism behind this link is largely unknown. We tested the hypothesis that a high level of depressive symptoms in healthy young adults would be related to more prevalent preclinical atherosclerosis. METHODS: We studied the association between depressive symptoms and carotid atherosclerosis in 1126 young adults (410 men and 716 women) as part of the ongoing p…
Digital inequality in Finland
In recent years, digital health care and social welfare services have been spreading rapidly and partly replacing face-to-face services, particularly in developed countries. This may lead to a pronounced digital inequality. This population-based study of Finnish adults ( N = 4495) examined the associations of offline resources with perceived benefits from online services and the mediating effects of access, skills and attitudes in these associati…
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
The longitudinal effects of social support and hostility on depressive tendencies
Use and changes in the use of the Internet for obtaining services among older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the digitalisation of services that poses the risk of digital exclusion, especially among older adults. We examined the predictors of Internet use for services and its increase or decrease among a longitudinal population-based sample of 1426 older adults from Finland aged between 70 and 100 years, gathered in 2017 and 2020. High education and high income positively predicted the use of the Internet …
Perceived effects of digitalization on social work in Finland
Drawing on a socio-technical approach, we examined Finnish social welfare professionals’ (n = 990) perceptions of the effects of digitalization on their work and how these are associated with factors related to work and client information system usage using mixed graphical modelling. Overall, perceptions were predominantly positive. Digitally replaced services were most common in the non-public sector. Higher client information system ratings wer…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity
BACKGROUND: Most prospective studies on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health have been conducted using subjective health indicators and short-term follow-ups. The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time. METHODS: The study was conducted in a multinational forest industry …
Depressive Symptoms and Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Young Adults
OBJECTIVE: Depression and coronary heart disease are often comorbid conditions, but the mechanism behind this link is largely unknown. We tested the hypothesis that a high level of depressive symptoms in healthy young adults would be related to more prevalent preclinical atherosclerosis. METHODS: We studied the association between depressive symptoms and carotid atherosclerosis in 1126 young adults (410 men and 716 women) as part of the ongoing p…
Effort-reward imbalance at work and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors
This study suggests that a high ratio of occupational efforts relative to rewards may be associated with an elevated risk of having multiple lifestyle risk factors. However, an unexpected association between low effort and a higher likelihood of risk factor co-occurrence as well as the absence of data on overcommitment (and thereby a lack of full test of the ERI model) warrant caution in regard to the extent to which the entire ERI model is suppo…
The longitudinal effects of social support and hostility on depressive tendencies
Sense of coherence and diabetes
The results suggest that besides focusing on well-known risk factors for diabetes, strengthening SOC in employees of = <50 years of age can also play a role in attempts to tackle increasing rates of diabetes
Relationship between job strain and smoking cessation
Smoking cessation may be less likely in workplaces with high strain and low control. Policies and programs addressing employee job strain and control might also contribute to the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions
The effects of job demands and low job control on work–family conflict
The present study examined whether perceptions of organizational fairness (the procedural and interactional components) were able to diminish the negative effects of high job demands and low job control on the balance between work and family. The study participants were 713 women working in long‐term care for elderly people in Finland. The results showed that high job demands, low job control, and unfair decision making were associated with high …
Sense of coherence and psychiatric morbidity
BACKGROUND: Most prospective studies on the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and mental health have been conducted using subjective health indicators and short-term follow-ups. The objective of this prospective occupational cohort study was to examine whether a strong sense of coherence is a protective factor against psychiatric disorders over a long period of time. METHODS: The study was conducted in a multinational forest industry …
Are skin disorders related to work strain in hospital workers? A cross-sectional study
Job stress plays a significant role in triggering skin disorders among hospital workers and psychological problems do not appear to be the mechanism behind this association. Occupational health education and training should focus on reducing job demands and occupational stress in order to prevent skin problems among hospital workers
Social Participation and Maintaining Recommended Waist Circumference
Participation in cultural and charitable activities may help in maintaining a recommended level of WC in older men with WC originally in the recommended range
Negative Aspects of Close Relationships as a Predictor of Increased Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference
Objectives. We investigated whether exposure to negative aspects of close relationships was associated with subsequent increase in body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. Methods. Data came from a prospective cohort study (Whitehall II) of 9425 civil servants aged 35 to 55 years at baseline (phase 1: 1985–1988). We assessed negative aspects of close relationships with the Close Persons Questionnaire (range 0–12) at phases 1 and 2 (1989–199…
Implementation of Workplace-Based Smoking Cessation Support Activities and Smoking Cessation Among Employees
Objectives. We investigated the relationship between implementation of workplace smoking cessation support activities and employee smoking cessation. Methods. In 2 cohort studies, participants were 6179 Finnish public-sector employees who self-reported as smokers at baseline in 2004 (study 1) or 2008 (study 2) and responded to follow-up surveys in 2008 (study 1; n = 3298; response rate = 71%) or 2010 (study 2; n = 2881; response rate = 83%). Supe…
Psychosocial Risk Prevention in a Global Occupational Health Perspective. A Descriptive Analysis
This study aimed to find out which countries around the world require psychosocial hazards and workplace violence to be assessed by employers through a mandatory occupational risk assessment process and to compare the type of legislation between countries. We systematically searched the International Labour Office (ILO) "LEGOSH" database for documents published during the period between December 2017 and February 2018. The search included 132 cou…
Tailoring EHRs for Specific Working Environments Improves Work Well-Being of Physicians
Electronic health records (EHRs) have an impact on physicians' well-being and stress levels. We studied physicians' experiences with EHRs and their experienced time pressure and self-rated stress by an electronic questionnaire sent to Finnish physicians aged under 65 in 2017. Our sample was 2980 physicians working in the public sector, health care centers (35.5%) or hospitals (64.5%). Experienced technical problems were positively associated with…
Digital inequality in Finland
In recent years, digital health care and social welfare services have been spreading rapidly and partly replacing face-to-face services, particularly in developed countries. This may lead to a pronounced digital inequality. This population-based study of Finnish adults ( N = 4495) examined the associations of offline resources with perceived benefits from online services and the mediating effects of access, skills and attitudes in these associati…
Use and changes in the use of the Internet for obtaining services among older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in the digitalisation of services that poses the risk of digital exclusion, especially among older adults. We examined the predictors of Internet use for services and its increase or decrease among a longitudinal population-based sample of 1426 older adults from Finland aged between 70 and 100 years, gathered in 2017 and 2020. High education and high income positively predicted the use of the Internet …
Perceived effects of digitalization on social work in Finland
Drawing on a socio-technical approach, we examined Finnish social welfare professionals’ (n = 990) perceptions of the effects of digitalization on their work and how these are associated with factors related to work and client information system usage using mixed graphical modelling. Overall, perceptions were predominantly positive. Digitally replaced services were most common in the non-public sector. Higher client information system ratings wer…
Medicine (14 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Workplace Health and Well-being (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Internal Medicine (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)