Associations between physical and psychosocial work environment factors and sickness absence incidence depend on the lengths of the sickness absence episodes: a prospective study of 27 678 Danish employees.
Occup Environ Med
; 78(1): 46-53, 2021 01.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
This study examined if the association between work environment factors and sickness absence (SA) depended on the inclusion or exclusion of short-term SA episodes.METHODS:
We linked the 'Work Environment and Health in Denmark' survey with the 'Danish Register of Work Absences' (n=27 678). Using covariate adjusted Cox regression, we examined the associations between work environment factors and SA by changing the cut-off points for the length of the SA episodes, for example, episodes ≥1 day, ≥6 days and ≥21 days. We examined three physical work environment factors 'Back bend or twisted', 'Lifting or carrying', 'Wet hands' and three psychosocial work environment factors 'Poor influence', 'Role conflicts' and 'Bullying'.RESULTS:
'Back bend or twisted' and 'Lifting or carrying' had small significant HRs for SA episodes ≥1 day and large and highly significant HRs for SA episodes ≥6 days and ≥21 days. 'Wet hands' had small significant HRs for SA episodes ≥1 day for both sexes and large and highly significant HR for ≥6 days for women. HRs of all three psychosocial factors were highly significant for SA episodes ≥1 day and ≥6 days for both sexes, and 'Poor influence' and 'Role conflicts' were significant for SA episodes ≥21 days for women.CONCLUSIONS:
The physical work factors had higher associations with SA when SA episodes of 1-5 days were excluded and focus was on SA episodes ≥6 days. The psychosocial work factors were strongly associated with SA both with and without SA episodes of 1-5 days included in the analyses.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Fatores de Tempo
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Exposição Ocupacional
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Local de Trabalho
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Licença Médica
Tipo de estudo:
Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article