Ontario Health Study June 2019 Newsletter
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In this issue:
- New questionnaire now available – We want to know your work story!
- Your work story could help fill a knowledge gap
- OHS data are now part of a global cancer collaboration
- What made you participate in the OHS?
- Participants make OHS research possible
| New questionnaire now available – We want to know your work story! |
The work we do can have a big impact on our physical, mental and emotional health. That’s why we created the OHS Work History Questionnaire to allow researchers to further investigate the link between work and health. It is now available to complete!
The questionnaire asks many things about the jobs you’ve had in your life, including where you worked, the tasks you performed, how you got to work, whether you did shift work, and other risk factors you may have been exposed to.
Data collected by the Work History Questionnaire are useful to researchers across many disciplines. OHS Executive Scientific Director Dr. Philip Awadalla says:
“Because this is a population cohort and not a clinical cohort, it allows us to capture information and data that many different types of researchers can potentially use that would be very interesting to answer – questions around why people develop disease, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, something in the brain space – we can break down a number of those health domain silos and answer those questions in a pluralistic manner.”
You may not be able to recall every job you’ve had, but the more you are able to provide, the stronger the available data becomes. You may want to refer to a copy of your résumé to be able to quickly access information about the location and duration of the job, as well as the duties performed. As always, your progress is saved as you go, so you don’t need to complete the whole questionnaire in one sitting.
In just two months, thousands of participants have already told us their work story. Every participant has valuable information to provide – you don’t need to be currently employed to make an important contribution to heath research by logging into your account and clicking the red banner to get started!
| Additional Reading: Want to know more about how your work life and health are connected? Here are some interesting stories we liked. Follow the OHS on Facebook for updates and other interesting work-related news and research. When you have to do shift work – Counteracting the negative impacts of working against your body’s internal clock (audio)How many jobs do Canadians hold in a lifetime?Standing or sitting – which is best? (video)Women more likely to leave work to care for elders |
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