Returning to work after a sickness absence due to cancer: a cohort study of salaried workers in Catalonia (Spain).

ABSTRACT: Cancer incidence and survival rates have increased in the last decades and as a result, the number of working age people diagnosed with cancer who return to work. In this study the probability of accumulating days of employment and employment participation trajectories (EPTs) in a sample of salaried workers in Catalonia (Spain) who had a sickness absence (SA) due to cancer were compared to salaried workers with SA due to other diagnoses or without SA. Each individual with SA due to cancer between 2012 and 2015 was matched by age, sex, and onset of time at risk to a worker with SA due to other diagnoses and another worker without SA. Accumulated days of employment were measured, and negative binomial models were applied to assess differences between comparison groups. Latent class models we

SUBMITTER: Ayala-Garcia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8671387 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature