0028 Multi-site musculoskeletal pain and physical working conditions as predictors of sickness absence due to musculoskeletal diagnoses (original) (raw)

Occupational and environmental medicine, 2014

Abstract

To investigate the importance of multi-site musculoskeletal pain as a predictor of sickness absence days due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among blue-collar employees, and to study what extent such a relationship might be confounded by physical loading at work. Survey responses from 901 employees were linked to a food industry company's record of sickness absence due to MSD (≥ four days). Generalised Linear Models (GLM) with negative binomial distribution assumption was used in order to determine associations between the occurrence of multi-site pain (no pain, one-site and multi-site pain), individual variables, work related variables and sickness absence days due to MSD during a four-year follow-up. The high exposure group had about 92 and the low exposure about 72 all-cause sickness absence days yearly, and corresponding figures for absence due to MSD were 36 and 28. The share of MSD absence is about 40% irrespective of the exposure. Single site pain did not predict absen...

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