Recurrent back pain during working life and exit from paid employment: a 28-year follow-up of the Whitehall II Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the impact of recurrent, as compared with single, reports of back pain on exit from paid employment over decades of follow-up.

Methods

The study sample was from the British Whitehall II Study cohort (n=8665, 69% men, aged 35-55 at baseline), who had provided information about their reports of back pain between 1985 and 1994. Data about exit from paid employment (health-related and non-health related exit, unemployment and other exit) were collected between 1995 and 2013. Repeated measures logistic regression models were fitted to examine the associations, and adjust for covariates.

Results

Recurrent pain was reported by 18% of participants, while 26% reported pain on an occasion and 56% did not report pain. Report of back pain on an occasion was

SUBMITTER: Lallukka T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6227793 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature