Predicting long-term sickness absence with employee questionnaires and administrative records: a prospective cohort study of hospital employees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to compare the utility of risk estimation derived from questionnaires and administrative records in predicting long-term sickness absence among shift workers.

Methods

This prospective cohort study comprised 3197 shift-working hospital employees (mean age 44.5 years, 88.0% women) who responded to a brief 8-item questionnaire on work disability risk factors and were linked to 28 variables on their working hour and workplace characteristics obtained from administrative registries at study baseline. The primary outcome was the first sickness absence lasting ≥90 days during a 4-year follow-up.

Results

The C-index of 0.73 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.70-0.77] for a questionnaire-only based prediction model, 0.71 (95% CI 0.67-0.75) for an admini

SUBMITTER: Nyberg ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10882516 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature