Impact of hypothetical improvements in the psychosocial work environment on sickness absence rates: a simulation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The association between psychosocial working environments and sickness absence is well-known. However, the potential for reducing sickness absences of different lengths through improvements in psychosocial work factors is not fully understood. We aim to quantify the potential for reducing short-, intermediate- and long-term sickness absence rates, respectively, through hypothetical improvements in several psychosocial work factors.

Methods

This longitudinal study includes 24 990 public hospital employees from the 2014 wave of the Well-being in Hospital Employees study. The 1-year sickness absence rate was divided into short- (1-3 days), intermediate- (4-28 days) and long-term (29 days or more) periods. We simulated hypothetical scenarios with improvements in 17 ps

SUBMITTER: Mathisen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527953 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature