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Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees
PURPOSE: Physical work exposures are associated with sickness absence among older employees. We aimed to examine if they similarly contribute to all-cause sickness absence during early and mid-careers. METHODS: We used questionnaire data on physical work exposures linked to register data on sickness...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34687341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01791-y |
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author | Mänty, M. Kouvonen, A. Nordquist, H. Harkko, J. Pietiläinen, O. Halonen, J. I. Rahkonen, O. Lallukka, T. |
author_facet | Mänty, M. Kouvonen, A. Nordquist, H. Harkko, J. Pietiläinen, O. Halonen, J. I. Rahkonen, O. Lallukka, T. |
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description | PURPOSE: Physical work exposures are associated with sickness absence among older employees. We aimed to examine if they similarly contribute to all-cause sickness absence during early and mid-careers. METHODS: We used questionnaire data on physical work exposures linked to register data on sickness absence from 3542 municipal employees aged 19–39 years. Follow-up for the number of sickness absence days was 12 months. Exposures to physical workload, occupational environmental hazards, and sedentary work were divided into quartiles. In addition, duration of daily exposure to heavy work was included. Negative binomial regression models were used. RESULTS: Higher exposure to physical workload or hazardous exposures was associated with a higher number of sickness absence days. The age and gender adjusted rate ratios for sickness absence days among the participants whose exposure to physical workload was in the highest exposure quartile were 2.1 (95% CI 1.8‒2.5) compared with those whose exposure was in the lowest quartile. In addition, rate ratios for sickness absence days among participants who reported that they do heavy physical work 1.1‒2.0 h, 2.1‒4.0 h or over 4 h daily were 1.6 (1.3‒1.9), 1.5 (1.3‒1.8) and 1.7 (1.5‒2.1), respectively, compared with those who reported not doing physical work. Further adjustment for lifestyle factors or health characteristics attenuated the associations only slightly. CONCLUSION: Exposure to physically demanding work is associated with a higher number of sickness absence days among municipal employees below 40 years of age. Physical working conditions should be considered when aiming to support later work ability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00420-021-01791-y. |
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spelling | pubmed-87950302022-02-02 Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees Mänty, M. Kouvonen, A. Nordquist, H. Harkko, J. Pietiläinen, O. Halonen, J. I. Rahkonen, O. Lallukka, T. Int Arch Occup Environ Health Original Article PURPOSE: Physical work exposures are associated with sickness absence among older employees. We aimed to examine if they similarly contribute to all-cause sickness absence during early and mid-careers. METHODS: We used questionnaire data on physical work exposures linked to register data on sickness absence from 3542 municipal employees aged 19–39 years. Follow-up for the number of sickness absence days was 12 months. Exposures to physical workload, occupational environmental hazards, and sedentary work were divided into quartiles. In addition, duration of daily exposure to heavy work was included. Negative binomial regression models were used. RESULTS: Higher exposure to physical workload or hazardous exposures was associated with a higher number of sickness absence days. The age and gender adjusted rate ratios for sickness absence days among the participants whose exposure to physical workload was in the highest exposure quartile were 2.1 (95% CI 1.8‒2.5) compared with those whose exposure was in the lowest quartile. In addition, rate ratios for sickness absence days among participants who reported that they do heavy physical work 1.1‒2.0 h, 2.1‒4.0 h or over 4 h daily were 1.6 (1.3‒1.9), 1.5 (1.3‒1.8) and 1.7 (1.5‒2.1), respectively, compared with those who reported not doing physical work. Further adjustment for lifestyle factors or health characteristics attenuated the associations only slightly. CONCLUSION: Exposure to physically demanding work is associated with a higher number of sickness absence days among municipal employees below 40 years of age. Physical working conditions should be considered when aiming to support later work ability. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00420-021-01791-y. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-10-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8795030/ /pubmed/34687341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01791-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Mänty, M. Kouvonen, A. Nordquist, H. Harkko, J. Pietiläinen, O. Halonen, J. I. Rahkonen, O. Lallukka, T. Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title | Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title_full | Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title_fullStr | Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title_full_unstemmed | Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title_short | Physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
title_sort | physical working conditions and subsequent sickness absence: a record linkage follow-up study among 19–39-year-old municipal employees |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8795030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34687341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-021-01791-y |
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