Job demands, job resources and long‐term sickness absence in the Danish eldercare services: a prospective analysis of register‐based outcomes

Abstract

Job demands and job resources are significantly associated with risk of long-term sickness absence. Interventions aimed at improving the psychosocial work environment may, therefore, contribute towards preventing long-term sickness absence in the eldercare services.

Building engagement and healthy organisations

“…No significant correlations were found between job resources and sickness absence, which is surprising as other studies have demonstrated robust associations between job resources and risk of sickness absence (e.g. Clausen, Nielsen, Caneiro, & Borg, 2012). The correlation analyses furthermore showed that trust and justice were negatively associated with instances of sickness presenteeism, which indicates that employees who experience organisational trust and justice may be confident in the abilities of their colleagues to do the job properly, which reduces their propensity to go to work in spite of illness.…”

Dose–response relation between perceived physical exertion during healthcare work and risk of long-term sickness absence

“…Previous studies point toward an association between perceived psychosocial work conditions and sickness absence (17,25,(33)(34)(35). It can be speculated that a general negative social climate makes employees more prone to report higher physical exertion or that psychosocial work factors per se are associated with sickness absence.…”

“…We additionally adjusted for four indicators of perceived psychosocial work conditions from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) (25,26): (i) emotional demands (eg, "Is your work emotionally demanding?" Cronbach's α=0.81); (ii) role conflicts (eg, "are contradictory demands placed on you at work?"…”

Patient transfers and assistive devices: prospective cohort study on the risk for occupational back injury among healthcare workers

“…Potential confounders from the baseline questionnaire included age (continuous variable), back injury during the previous year (yes/no), body mass index (BMI) (kg/ m 2 , continuous variable), smoking status (dichotomous variable depicting smoker/non-smoker), leisure-time physical activity (4-categories from low to a very high level) (22,23), seniority (years working as healthcare worker, continuous variable), and influence at work from the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ normalized on a 0-100 scale according to the test score manual) (24,25).…”