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Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries

OBJECTIVES: This article investigates various motives for sickness presence (SP) among students in secondary school. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: 25 secondary schools in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia. PARTICIPANTS: 5002 students between 16 and 19 years of age, 49% female. RE...

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Autor principal: Johansen, Vegard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29371281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019337
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description OBJECTIVES: This article investigates various motives for sickness presence (SP) among students in secondary school. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: 25 secondary schools in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia. PARTICIPANTS: 5002 students between 16 and 19 years of age, 49% female. RESULTS: Almost half of the students reported two or more incidents of SP. The study indicated that the practice of SP was mainly extrinsically motivated. The most often reported motives for SP were that absence could affect grades negatively, that important curriculum material was explained at the school and attendance requirements. Some students practising SP expressed intrinsic motivation, such as maintaining their social network and interest in what was learnt at school. CONCLUSION: The study investigated various motives for SP in secondary schools in five European countries. Extrinsic motivation for SP was more often reported than intrinsic motivation for SP. Multivariate analyses indicated that boys, students in vocational education, immigrants and students with low-educated parents more often reported intrinsic motivation for SP, while girls and students with high absence more often reported extrinsic motivation. There were also notable cross-country differences regarding reported motives for SP.
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spelling pubmed-57860912018-01-31 Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries Johansen, Vegard BMJ Open Sociology OBJECTIVES: This article investigates various motives for sickness presence (SP) among students in secondary school. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: 25 secondary schools in Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Italy and Latvia. PARTICIPANTS: 5002 students between 16 and 19 years of age, 49% female. RESULTS: Almost half of the students reported two or more incidents of SP. The study indicated that the practice of SP was mainly extrinsically motivated. The most often reported motives for SP were that absence could affect grades negatively, that important curriculum material was explained at the school and attendance requirements. Some students practising SP expressed intrinsic motivation, such as maintaining their social network and interest in what was learnt at school. CONCLUSION: The study investigated various motives for SP in secondary schools in five European countries. Extrinsic motivation for SP was more often reported than intrinsic motivation for SP. Multivariate analyses indicated that boys, students in vocational education, immigrants and students with low-educated parents more often reported intrinsic motivation for SP, while girls and students with high absence more often reported extrinsic motivation. There were also notable cross-country differences regarding reported motives for SP. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5786091/ /pubmed/29371281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019337 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title_full Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title_fullStr Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title_full_unstemmed Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title_short Motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five European countries
title_sort motives for sickness presence among students at secondary school: a cross-sectional study in five european countries
topic Sociology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29371281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019337
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