Association of work‐time control with sickness absence due to musculoskeletal and mental disorders: An occupational cohort study

ObjectivesTo assess the relationship between early working life patterns, at privately and publicly held companies, and the course of sickness absence (SA) due to mental disorders.MethodsCohort study of workers aged 18–28 years, affiliated with the Spanish social security system, living in Catalonia, who had at least one episode of SA due to mental disorders between 2012 and 2014. Individual prior working life trajectories were reconstructed through sequence analysis. Optimal matching analysis was performed to identify early working life patterns by clustering similar individual trajectories. SA trajectories were identified using latent class growth modelling analysis. Finally, the relationship between early working life patterns and subsequent SA trajectories was assessed via multinomial logistic regression models.ResultsAmong both men and women, four labour market participation (LMP) patterns were identified: stable permanent employment (reference group), increasing permanent employment, fluctuating employment and delayed employment. Among women, an increasing permanent employment pattern in early working life was related to a decrease of accumulated SA days over time (adjusted OR (aOR) 2.08; 95% CI 1.18 to 3.66). In men, we observed a trend towards a middle stable accumulation of SA days in those with fluctuating employment (aOR 1.25, 95% CI 0.57 to 2.74) or delayed employment (aOR 1.79; 95% CI 0.59 to 5.41). In both men and women, an early working life in big companies was related to a more favourable SA trajectory.ConclusionsEarly LMP patterns characterised by an increasing stability—decreased number of transitions between temporary contracts and lack of social security coverage towards permanent contracts—were related to a better future SA course due to mental diagnosis.

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Occupational musculoskeletal and mental disorders as the most frequent associations to worker’s sickness absence: A 10-year cohort study

BMC Research Notes ◽

10.1186/1756-0500-5-229 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Antonio Carlos Zechinatti ◽

João Carlos Belloti ◽

Vinícius Ynoe de Moraes ◽

Walter Manna Albertoni

Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Sickness Absence

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Factors Associated with Long-Term Sickness Absence Due to Mental Disorders: A Cohort Study of 7.112 Patients during the Spanish Economic Crisis

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0146382 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. e0146382 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Eva Real ◽

Lluís Jover ◽

Ricard Verdaguer ◽

Antoni Griera ◽

Cinto Segalàs ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Sickness Absence ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Factors Associated

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Why do men extend their employment beyond pensionable age more often than women? a cohort study

European Journal of Ageing ◽

10.1007/s10433-021-00663-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Saana Myllyntausta ◽

Marianna Virtanen ◽

Jaana Pentti ◽

Mika Kivimäki ◽

Jussi Vahtera ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Job Strain ◽

Full Time ◽

Work Time ◽

Related Factors ◽

Work Related ◽

Explanatory Factors ◽

Time Control ◽

Part Time ◽

High Work

AbstractMen extend their employment beyond pensionable age more often than women, but the factors that contribute to this sex difference are unknown. This study aimed to examine sex differences in extending employment and the contribution of sociodemographic, work- and health-related factors to these differences. Participants of this prospective cohort study were 4,263 public sector employees from Finland who reached their individual pensionable date between 2014 and 2019 and responded to a survey on work- and non-work-related issues before that date. Extended employment was defined as continuing working for over six months beyond the individual pensionable date. We used mediation analysis to examine the contribution of explanatory factors to the association between sex and extended employment. Of the participants, 29% extended employment beyond the pensionable date. Men had a 1.29-fold (95% confidence interval 1.11–1.49) higher probability of extending employment compared with women. Men had a higher prevalence of factors that increase the likelihood of extended employment than women (such as spouse working full-time, no part-time retirement, low job strain, high work time control, and lack of pain) and this mediated the association of sex with extended employment by up to 83%. In conclusion, men were more likely to extend their employment beyond pensionable age than women. This difference was largely explained by men being more likely to have a full-time working spouse, low job strain, high work time control, no pain, and not being on part-time retirement.

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Can a poor psychosocial work environment and insufficient organizational resources explain the higher risk of ill-health and sickness absence in human service occupations? Evidence from a Swedish national cohort

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1177/1403494818812638 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 310-317 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Vanda Aronsson ◽

Susanna Toivanen ◽

Constanze Leineweber ◽

Anna Nyberg

Keyword(s):

Work Environment ◽

Sickness Absence ◽

Workplace Violence ◽

Psychosocial Work Environment ◽

Organizational Resources ◽

Psychosocial Work ◽

Work Time ◽

Time Control ◽

Organizational Resource ◽

Emotional Demands

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate differences in burnout, self-rated health (SRH) and sickness absence between human service occupations (HSOs) and other occupations, and whether they can be attributed to differences in psychosocial work environment and organizational resources. Methods: Data were derived from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, an approximately representative sample of the Swedish working population ( n = 4408). Employment in HSOs, psychosocial work environment and organizational resources in 2012 predicted relative risks of sickness absence, burnout and suboptimal SRH in 2014 using modified Poisson regressions. The psychosocial work factors’ and organizational resource variables’ relative importance were estimated by adding them to the models one by one, and with population attributable fractions (PAFs). Results: Employment in HSOs was associated with a higher risk of sickness absence and the risk was explained by psychosocial and organizational factors, particularly high emotional demands, low work-time control and exposure to workplace violence. Employment in HSOs was not associated with burnout after sociodemographic factors were adjusted for, and furthermore not with SRH. A lower risk of suboptimal SRH was found in HSOs than in other occupations with equivalent psychosocial work environment and organizational resources. PAFs indicated that psychosocial work environment and organizational resource improvements could lead to morbidity reductions for all outcomes; emotional demands were more important in HSOs. Conclusions: HSOs had higher risks of sickness absence and burnout than other occupations. The most important work factors to address were high emotional demands, low work-time control, and exposure to workplace violence.

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