Socioeconomic status is associated with symptom severity and sickness absence in people with infectious intestinal disease in the UK.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of infectious intestinal disease (IID) in the UK is substantial. Negative consequences including sickness absence are common, but little is known about the social patterning of these outcomes, or the extent to which they relate to disease severity.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional analysis using IID cases identified from a large population-based survey, to explore the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and symptom severity and sickness absence; and to assess the role of symptom severity on the relationship between SES and absence. Regression modelling was used to investigate these associations, whilst controlling for potential confounders such as age, sex and ethnicity.

Results

Among 1164 cases, those of lower SES versus high ha

SUBMITTER: Rose TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481911 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature