Associations between perceived quantitative work demands at different organisational levels and pain and sickness absence in eldercare workers: a multi-level longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Eldercare work is characterised by high quantitative work demands and high occurrence of musculoskeletal pain and sickness absence. Our aim was to investigate the association between quantitative demands aggregated at the different organizational levels of eldercare and low back pain (LBP) and sickness absence due to pain among workers.

Methods

This study was conducted in 527 eldercare workers from 105 wards across 20 nursing homes in Denmark. We collected workers' perceived quantitative demands at baseline and workers' LBP and sickness absence repeatedly over the following year. We aggregated worker-level quantitative demands to the ward and nursing home-levels, and used mixed-effects regression models to investigate the associations between quantitative demands at

SUBMITTER: Stevens ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9203390 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature