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Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data

Aims: Most previous prospective studies have examined workplace social capital as a resource of the individual. However, literature suggests that social capital is a collective good. In the present study we examined whether a high level of workplace aggregated social capital (WASC) predicts a decrea...

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Autores principales: Hansen, Anne-Sophie K., Madsen, Ida E. H., Thorsen, Sannie Vester, Melkevik, Ole, Bjørner, Jakob Bue, Andersen, Ingelise, Rugulies, Reiner
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28784025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494817721672
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author Hansen, Anne-Sophie K.
Madsen, Ida E. H.
Thorsen, Sannie Vester
Melkevik, Ole
Bjørner, Jakob Bue
Andersen, Ingelise
Rugulies, Reiner
author_facet Hansen, Anne-Sophie K.
Madsen, Ida E. H.
Thorsen, Sannie Vester
Melkevik, Ole
Bjørner, Jakob Bue
Andersen, Ingelise
Rugulies, Reiner
author_sort Hansen, Anne-Sophie K.
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description Aims: Most previous prospective studies have examined workplace social capital as a resource of the individual. However, literature suggests that social capital is a collective good. In the present study we examined whether a high level of workplace aggregated social capital (WASC) predicts a decreased risk of individual-level long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in Danish private sector employees. Methods: A sample of 2043 employees (aged 18–64 years, 38.5% women) from 260 Danish private-sector companies filled in a questionnaire on workplace social capital and covariates. WASC was calculated by assigning the company-averaged social capital score to all employees of each company. We derived LTSA, defined as sickness absence of more than three weeks, from a national register. We examined if WASC predicted employee LTSA using multilevel survival analyses, while excluding participants with LTSA in the three months preceding baseline. Results: We found no statistically significant association in any of the analyses. The hazard ratio for LTSA in the fully adjusted model was 0.93 (95% CI 0.77–1.13) per one standard deviation increase in WASC. When using WASC as a categorical exposure we found a statistically non-significant tendency towards a decreased risk of LTSA in employees with medium WASC (fully adjusted model: HR 0.78 (95% CI 0.48–1.27)). Post hoc analyses with workplace social capital as a resource of the individual showed similar results. Conclusions: WASC did not predict LTSA in this sample of Danish private-sector employees.
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spelling pubmed-59466592018-05-18 Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data Hansen, Anne-Sophie K. Madsen, Ida E. H. Thorsen, Sannie Vester Melkevik, Ole Bjørner, Jakob Bue Andersen, Ingelise Rugulies, Reiner Scand J Public Health Work Disability Aims: Most previous prospective studies have examined workplace social capital as a resource of the individual. However, literature suggests that social capital is a collective good. In the present study we examined whether a high level of workplace aggregated social capital (WASC) predicts a decreased risk of individual-level long-term sickness absence (LTSA) in Danish private sector employees. Methods: A sample of 2043 employees (aged 18–64 years, 38.5% women) from 260 Danish private-sector companies filled in a questionnaire on workplace social capital and covariates. WASC was calculated by assigning the company-averaged social capital score to all employees of each company. We derived LTSA, defined as sickness absence of more than three weeks, from a national register. We examined if WASC predicted employee LTSA using multilevel survival analyses, while excluding participants with LTSA in the three months preceding baseline. Results: We found no statistically significant association in any of the analyses. The hazard ratio for LTSA in the fully adjusted model was 0.93 (95% CI 0.77–1.13) per one standard deviation increase in WASC. When using WASC as a categorical exposure we found a statistically non-significant tendency towards a decreased risk of LTSA in employees with medium WASC (fully adjusted model: HR 0.78 (95% CI 0.48–1.27)). Post hoc analyses with workplace social capital as a resource of the individual showed similar results. Conclusions: WASC did not predict LTSA in this sample of Danish private-sector employees. SAGE Publications 2017-08-07 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5946659/ /pubmed/28784025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494817721672 Text en © Author(s) 2017 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Hansen, Anne-Sophie K.
Madsen, Ida E. H.
Thorsen, Sannie Vester
Melkevik, Ole
Bjørner, Jakob Bue
Andersen, Ingelise
Rugulies, Reiner
Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title_full Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title_fullStr Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title_full_unstemmed Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title_short Does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? Linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
title_sort does workplace social capital protect against long-term sickness absence? linking workplace aggregated social capital to sickness absence registry data
topic Work Disability
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28784025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494817721672
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