Karla Romero Starke

ORCID: 0000-0002-6614-2381
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Research Areas
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • Occupational health in dentistry
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Dermatological and COVID-19 studies
  • Occupational exposure and asthma
  • School Health and Nursing Education
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Infection Control and Ventilation

TU Dresden
2019-2025

Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik
2019-2024

Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
2024

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
2019-2022

Chemnitz University of Technology
2020-2021

The aim of this study was to identify the occupational risk for a SARS-CoV-2 infection in nationwide sample German workers during first wave COVID-19 pandemic (1 February-31 August 2020).We used data 108 960 who participated COVID follow-up survey National Cohort (NAKO). Occupational characteristics were derived from Classification Occupations 2010 (Klassifikation der Berufe 2010). PCR-confirmed infections assessed self-reports. Incidence rates (IR) and incidence rate ratios (IRR) estimated...

10.5271/sjweh.4037 article EN cc-by Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health 2022-06-07

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine if there is an increased risk of incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD) resulting from cumulative night shift work in the German population-based Gutenberg Health Study (GHS). METHODS: We examined working participants GHS at baseline and after five years. Cumulative 10 years before was assessed categorized as low (1–220 nights ≙ up 1 year), middle (221–660 1–3 years), high (>660 more than 3 years) exposure. Hazard ratios (HR) were estimated for...

10.5271/sjweh.4139 article EN cc-by Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health 2024-01-23

Abstract Background Parental work stress and impaired mental health seem to have intensified during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Both can a negative impact on parent-child bonding: psychosocial in course of spillover effect from family symptoms as part crossover parent child. This potentially affects child’s development long term. Method cross-sectional study examined relationship between bonding early pandemic (May–June 2020). Symptoms depression aggressiveness were considered mediators...

10.1186/s12889-022-14759-5 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2023-01-16

Abstract Purpose This study analyzed longitudinal data to examine whether occupational sitting time is associated with increases in body mass index (BMI) and five-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Methods We included 2,000 employed men women (aged 31–60) from the German Study on Mental Health at Work (S-MGA) for a BMI analysis 1,635 participants free of CVD baseline (2011/2012) analysis. Occupational was categorized into five groups (< 5, 5 < 15, 15 25, 25 35, ≥ 35 h per week)....

10.1007/s00420-024-02118-3 article EN cc-by International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 2025-01-22

Noise annoyance is the second-highest cause of lost disability-adjusted life-years due to environmental noise in Europe. Evidence on exposure-response relationships (ERRs) for traffic with more accurate exposure values still needed.In an analysis population-based LIFE-Adult study Leipzig, Germany, we aimed investigate effect road, railway (train and tram), aircraft high (HA).Traffic data was taken 2012 evaluated between 2018 2021. HA defined according international standardized norms. We...

10.1016/j.envres.2023.115815 article EN cc-by Environmental Research 2023-03-31

Abstract Introduction Sedentary behavior (including prolonged sitting) is a form of physical inactivity that has negative impact on health, possibly including musculoskeletal complaints (MSCs). The purpose this study was to determine the extent which time spent sitting at work associated with one-year prevalence MSCs in neck, shoulder, upper back/thoracic spine, and lower back among workers from Study Mental Health Workplace (S-MGA). In addition, also examined whether leisure time, activity,...

10.1186/s12995-024-00408-7 article EN cc-by Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2024-03-27

During the COVID-19 pandemic, working parents have been faced with a double burden by struggling to satisfy their children's needs as well dealing altered requirements at same time. In unprecedented context of present study extends existing literature investigate association between work-privacy-conflict (WPC) and parent-child-bonding in families children aged 0-34 months old. Additionally, potential moderating role from home is considered. Data cross-sectional (n = 385) were collected...

10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107264 article EN cc-by Children and Youth Services Review 2023-10-27

Abstract Background Psychosocial working conditions were previously analyzed using the first recruitment wave of Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) cohort ( n = 5000). We aimed to confirm initial analysis entire GHS population at baseline N 15,010) and five-year follow-up. also determine effects psychosocial on self-rated outcomes measured Methods At baseline, participants assessed with either Effort-Reward-Imbalance questionnaire (ERI) 4358) or Copenhagen Questionnaire (COPSOQ) 4322); still after...

10.1186/s12889-021-12240-3 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2022-01-06

The aim of this study was to determine if there is an increased risk incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) resulting from workplace mobbing measured with two instruments in the Gutenberg Health Study.In prospective study, we examined working persons younger than 65 years for presence at baseline and a 5-year follow-up using single-item 5-item instrument. We used multivariate models investigate association between CVD, hypertension, change arterial stiffness further stratified by sex.After...

10.1186/s12995-020-00266-z article EN cc-by Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2020-06-12
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