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School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and psychosocial problems are common in schools worldwide, yet longitudinal research on the issue is scarce. We examined whether the level of or a change in pupil-reported school environment (IAQ, school satisfaction, and bullying) predicts recorded sick lea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22966903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-770 |
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author | Ervasti, Jenni Kivimäki, Mika Kawachi, Ichiro Subramanian, SV Pentti, Jaana Oksanen, Tuula Puusniekka, Riikka Pohjonen, Tiina Vahtera, Jussi Virtanen, Marianna |
author_facet | Ervasti, Jenni Kivimäki, Mika Kawachi, Ichiro Subramanian, SV Pentti, Jaana Oksanen, Tuula Puusniekka, Riikka Pohjonen, Tiina Vahtera, Jussi Virtanen, Marianna |
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description | BACKGROUND: Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and psychosocial problems are common in schools worldwide, yet longitudinal research on the issue is scarce. We examined whether the level of or a change in pupil-reported school environment (IAQ, school satisfaction, and bullying) predicts recorded sick leaves among teachers. METHODS: Changes in the school environment were assessed using pupil surveys at two time points (2001/02 and 2004/05) in 92 secondary schools in Finland. Variables indicating change were based on median values at baseline. We linked these data to individual-level records of teachers’ (n = 1678) sick leaves in 2001–02 and in 2004–05. RESULTS: Multilevel multinomial logistic regression models adjusted for baseline sick leave and covariates showed a decreased risk for short-term (one to three days) sick leaves among teachers working in schools with good perceived IAQ at both times (OR = 0.6, 95% CI: 0.5-0.9), and for those with a positive change in IAQ (OR = 0.6, 95% CI: 0.4-0.9), compared to teachers in schools where IAQ was constantly poor. Negative changes in pupil school satisfaction (OR = 1.8, 95% CI: 1.1-2.8) and bullying (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 1.0-2.3) increased the risk for short-term leaves among teachers when compared to teachers in schools where the level of satisfaction and bullying had remained stable. School environment factors were not associated with long-term sick leaves. CONCLUSIONS: Good and improved IAQ are associated with decreased teacher absenteeism. While pupil-related psychosocial factors also contribute to sick leaves, no effect modification or mediation of psychosocial factors on the association between IAQ and sick leave was observed. |
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spelling | pubmed-34907752012-11-07 School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study Ervasti, Jenni Kivimäki, Mika Kawachi, Ichiro Subramanian, SV Pentti, Jaana Oksanen, Tuula Puusniekka, Riikka Pohjonen, Tiina Vahtera, Jussi Virtanen, Marianna BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and psychosocial problems are common in schools worldwide, yet longitudinal research on the issue is scarce. We examined whether the level of or a change in pupil-reported school environment (IAQ, school satisfaction, and bullying) predicts recorded sick leaves among teachers. METHODS: Changes in the school environment were assessed using pupil surveys at two time points (2001/02 and 2004/05) in 92 secondary schools in Finland. Variables indicating change were based on median values at baseline. We linked these data to individual-level records of teachers’ (n = 1678) sick leaves in 2001–02 and in 2004–05. RESULTS: Multilevel multinomial logistic regression models adjusted for baseline sick leave and covariates showed a decreased risk for short-term (one to three days) sick leaves among teachers working in schools with good perceived IAQ at both times (OR = 0.6, 95% CI: 0.5-0.9), and for those with a positive change in IAQ (OR = 0.6, 95% CI: 0.4-0.9), compared to teachers in schools where IAQ was constantly poor. Negative changes in pupil school satisfaction (OR = 1.8, 95% CI: 1.1-2.8) and bullying (OR = 1.5, 95% CI: 1.0-2.3) increased the risk for short-term leaves among teachers when compared to teachers in schools where the level of satisfaction and bullying had remained stable. School environment factors were not associated with long-term sick leaves. CONCLUSIONS: Good and improved IAQ are associated with decreased teacher absenteeism. While pupil-related psychosocial factors also contribute to sick leaves, no effect modification or mediation of psychosocial factors on the association between IAQ and sick leave was observed. BioMed Central 2012-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3490775/ /pubmed/22966903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-770 Text en Copyright ©2012 Ervasti et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ervasti, Jenni Kivimäki, Mika Kawachi, Ichiro Subramanian, SV Pentti, Jaana Oksanen, Tuula Puusniekka, Riikka Pohjonen, Tiina Vahtera, Jussi Virtanen, Marianna School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title | School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title_full | School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title_fullStr | School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title_full_unstemmed | School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title_short | School environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
title_sort | school environment as predictor of teacher sick leave: data-linked prospective cohort study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22966903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-770 |
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