Symposium

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to announce a pre-conference Workshop on Heart Rate Variability and Job Stress Analysis: Discussing a New Platform for Large-scale Work/CVD Studies September 27, 2009, in Krakow, Poland, Fifth International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Disease organized by prof. Robert Karasek and Els Clays.

This is a very good opportunity to meet famous specialists in that field and to get acquainted with the new trends in heart rate variability analysis.

Please take a look at the programme of the workshop.

Deadline for registration is 22 September 2009 on the conference website.

Registration fee is 100 Euro.

Pre - conference workshop

September 27, 2009, at Krakow, Poland

Fifth International Conference on Work Environment and Cardiovascular Disease

Revised Program

Heart Rate Variability and Job Stress Analysis:

Discussing a New Platform for Large-scale Work/CVD Studies

9:00 am

Welcome from Robert Karasek and Els Clays, Workshop co-chairs

9:10

Dual Goals of the Workshop: (A) New Tools (B) New Work/CVD studies

Dual goals of the workshop: Based on use of (a) new tools for using HRV in occupational stress context and new theory, we hope to build a new platform for the (b) design of large-scale new Work/CVD studies - to be discussed in workshop

Robert Karasek

9:40

Physiological origin and interpretation of heart rate variability (HRV)

Including time and frequency domain concepts

Jesper Kristiansen

10:10

Coffee Break

10:30

HRV and Job Stress: A Review of Literature

Els Clays

11:00

High Level Theory of Disease: Stress-Disequilibrium (S-D) Theory, physiological implications for exhaustion and multi-level testing of stress/disease linkages

A regulatory effectiveness spectrum; Creating and using up control capacity, Variability and work of adaptation in S-D theory and Allostasis; Multi-level testing of Work/Disease pathway via S-D Theory

Robert Karasek

12:00

Lunch Break

1:00

Getting and Testing the Data: Collection and first pass processing for: (a) job strain, and (b) multi-level S-D testing

Standardization of stressor exposure; temporal aggregates and nested hierarchies

Sean Collins – by Camtasia

1:30

HRV in Work Environment Context: Defining Exhaustion in S-D Theory

Exhaustion, Periodicity, Controller/Controlled relations, multiple contrasts between high and low strain work, work vs. sleep, etc.;Sociological Periods

Robert Karasek

2:00

Measuring Exhaustion Response

Sean Collins - by Camtasia

2:20

Coffee Break

2:40

Complexity of modeling contrasts: allocating the variance

Multi-scale modeling with HRV (and multi-level measures) and sociological periods, & Within-subject vs. between subject comparisons

Sean Collins – by Camtasia

3:10

Discussion of HRV analytic tools in occupational stress contexts

Robert Karasek, Els Clays

3:40

Planning Large-scale HRV-based Work/CVD studies

Marco Ferrario

3:50

General Discussion of Large Scale Work/CVD Study Planning

Marco Ferrario and Els Clays

5:00

Adjourn