Associations of depressive symptoms and psychosocial working conditions with sickness absences in a Finnish cohort of 11,495 employees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relevance of questions on psychosocial working conditions and depressive symptoms, as used in a screening questionnaire in preventive occupational health care, to predict repetitive short or long sickness absences.

Methods

The participants were 11,495 employees of various occupations in Finnish companies. The data were prospectively collected by one occupational healthcare service provider (Finla) and included register data of sickness absences and responses to a questionnaire used in pre-employment and periodic health examinations between 2011 and 2019. Long sickness absences of > 30 days and repetitive short sickness absences of one to ten days in a 24-month follow-up were used as outcome variables for multiple logistic regression analysis.

Resu

SUBMITTER: Anttila A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11497368 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature