Self-employment, sickness absence, and disability pension in multiple sclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early withdrawal from work is common among people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS). However, little is known about how this is influenced by the type of employment. The aims were to explore the distributions of self-employed and other types of employment (employed or no earnings from work) before and after MS diagnosis and its associations with sickness absence (SA) and disability pension (DP) among PwMS and matched references without MS.

Materials & method

A 6-year longitudinal cohort study of 2779 individuals diagnosed with MS in 2008-2012 when aged 20-59 and of 13,863 matched individuals without MS from Sweden's population was conducted. Hazard ratios (HR) of >180 SA and/or DP days/year were compared by employment status among PwMS and references using Cox propor

SUBMITTER: Machado A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9544424 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature