Changes in working conditions and subsequent sickness absence

Psychological symptoms and subsequent sickness absence.

PURPOSE Mental health problems are associated with sickness absence (SA). The present study aimed at establishing which symptoms-distress, depression, anxiety, or somatization-at which symptom levels were associated with SA frequency and duration. Moreover, a number of possible confounders or effect modifiers were taken into account. METHODS A survey was completed by 3,678 employees of a larg...

Changes in economic difficulties and subsequent sickness absence: a prospective register-linkage study

OBJECTIVES People's economic difficulties are associated with their health, but consequences of changes in economic difficulties are less understood. We aimed to examine the associations between changes in economic difficulties and subsequent sickness absence while considering socioeconomic circumstances and other covariates. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Helsinki, Finland. P...

Perceived Working Conditions and Sickness Absence - A Four-year Follow-up in the Food Industry

OBJECTIVES To analyze the association between changes in perceived physical and psychosocial working conditions and change of sickness absence days in younger and older (< 50 and ≥ 50 years) food industry employees. METHODS This was a follow up study of 679 employees, who completed working conditions survey questionnaires in 2005 and 2009 and for whom the requisite sickness absence data were ...

Working conditions and sickness absence: the need for action oriented research.

The association between sex segregation, working conditions, and sickness absence among employed women.

AIMS To analyse the association between sickness absence and sex segregation of occupation and of work site, respectively, and to analyse work environmental factors associated with high sickness absence. METHODS The study group consisted of 1075 women employed as nurses, assistant nurses, medical secretaries, or metal workers who answered a questionnaire comprising 218 questions on women's he...