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Researcher

Margo Ketels

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15 Results

2025

Exploring the 'fit-for-work' principle : the association between occupational physical activity, cardio-respiratory fitness, and mortality : a meta-analysis of male worker data

Margo KetelsBart CillekensEls ClaysMaaike A. HuysmansDirk De BacquerAndreas HoltermannRichard P. TroianoPaul Jarle MorkSteinar KrokstadHenry Volzke et al.

A1 Journal Article in SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

2024

Flemish critical care nurses' experiences regarding the influence of work-related demands on their health : a descriptive interpretive qualitative study

Lukas BilliauLarissa BolligerEls ClaysKristof EecklooMargo Ketels

A1 Journal Article in BMC NURSING

SS33-04 THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PARADOX IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: EVIDENCE AND PREVENTION

Els ClaysMargo KetelsAndreas Holtermann

Towards a better understanding of the Physical Activity Health Paradox : the interplay between occupational and leisure time physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and psychosocial factors among workers with a physically active job

Margo KetelsEls ClaysDirk De BacquerAndreas Holtermann

2023

The impact of leisure-time physical activity and occupational physical activity on sickness absence : a prospective study among people with physically demanding jobs

Margo KetelsThomas BellighDirk De BacquerEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

2022

Are psychosocial resources buffering the relation between physical work behaviors and need for recovery?

Margo KetelsThomas BellighDirk De BacquerEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Fysiek zware beroepen : een onvermijdelijke bron van lage rugpijn en nek-schouderpijn?

Margo KetelsEls Clays

A2 Journal Article in ORTHO RHUMATO (NEDERLANDSE ED.)

2021

Is device-based total and domain-specific sedentary behaviour associated with psychological distress in Flemish workers?

Katrien De CockerMargo KetelsJason A BennieEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Low back and neck pain : objective and subjective measures of workplace psychosocial and physical hazards

Jodi OakmanMargo KetelsEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

2020

The association between occupational physical activity, psychosocial factors, and perceived work ability among nurses

Esther Van PoelMargo KetelsEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT

The occupational sitting and physical activity questionnaire (OSPAQ) : a validation study with accelerometer-assessed measures

Iris MaesMargo KetelsDelfien Van DyckEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

The relation between domain-specific physical behaviour and cardiorespiratory fitness : a cross-sectional compositional data analysis on the physical activity health paradox using accelerometer-assessed data

Margo KetelsCharlotte Lund RasmussenMette KorshøjNidhi GuptaDirk De BacquerAndreas HoltermannEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH

2019

Assessing physiological response mechanisms and the role of psychosocial job resources in the physical activity health paradox : study protocol for the Flemish Employees' Physical Activity (FEPA) study

Margo KetelsDirk De BacquerTom GeensHeidi JanssensMette KorshøjAndreas HoltermannEls Clays

A1 Journal Article in BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Can 24-hour heart rate be an underlying mechanism of the occupational and leisure time physical activity paradox?

Margo KetelsDirk De BacquerMette KorshøjAndreas HoltermannEls Clays

The influence of occupational physical activity and work-related stress on perceived work ability

Margo KetelsEsther Van PoelDirk De BacquerAndreas HoltermannEls Clays