Comprehensive evaluation of the impact of workplace exposures on physician-certified sick leave in the general working population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our objective was to quantify the prospective associations between work factors across chemical, physical, mechanical, and psychosocial domains and the onset of medically certified sick leave.

Methods

Eligible respondents were interviewed in 2009, 2013, or 2016 and were registered in the national sick leave register with an employee relationship lasting more than 50 working days during the year of the survey interviews and the following year (n = 15,294 observations). To focus on the onset of high-level sick leave (HLSL; >16 days a year), we excluded individuals with HLSL during the survey year (baseline). We then used mixed-effect logistic regression models to assess prospective associations between self-reported work conditions and the occurrence of doctor-certi

SUBMITTER: Sterud T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10795203 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature