Low job satisfaction does not identify nurses at risk of future sickness absence: Results from a Norwegian cohort study

Abstract

The results of this study indicated that job satisfaction was associated with sickness absence, though job satisfaction scores as measured with the JSI did not identify working nurses at risk of sickness absence.

Prediction of long-term absence due to sickness in employees: development and validation of a multifactorial risk score in two cohort studies

“…It is noteworthy that none of the work-related factors improved prediction after the inclusion of demographic and lifestyle variables Developing a parsimonious prediction model that performs well in discriminating those at greater risk of sickness absence is challenging. The few studies that use the total number of sickness absence days (including absence spells with variable length) during the previous year as a predictor were not successful in accurately predicting the total number sickness absence days in follow-up (12,14,44). The models with good discriminative ability with C-statistics >0.70 typically relate to long-term sickness absence.…”

“…Compared to those models, our model was based on data that covered a wide range of occupations of all occupational statuses in both sexes, instead of just one industry (16,17) or occupation (10,12,36,37), and our study is the first to develop and validate a multifactorial predictive algorithm for ≥90-day sickness absence. An advantage over many of the previous models was that we were able to use an independent cohort for external validation.…”

“…Psychological problems (3,4), unfavorable workplace characteristics (5,6), and adverse health behaviors (7) have been shown to be associated with an increased risk of sickness absence. By combining this information, attempts have been made to develop multifactorial prediction models for sickness absence (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). To date, however, the study samples used in developing these prediction models have often included only a limited number of occupations (8,9,11,16,17), which may limit the generalizability of the results.…”

“…To date, however, the study samples used in developing these prediction models have often included only a limited number of occupations (8,9,11,16,17), which may limit the generalizability of the results. Furthermore, while some of these studies used official records to assess sickness absence (8,9,11,14,16), others have relied only on self-reported sickness Airaksinen et al absence (10,12,13,15). The methods used to develop prediction models have also been heterogeneous.…”

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“…Basert på dataene innsamlet i undersø-kelsen har totalt 15 vitenskapelige artikler blitt publisert eller godtatt for publisering i internasjonale fagfellevurderte tidsskrifter (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15). Forrige gang vi rapporterte fra prosjektet var i andre nummer av Sykepleien i 2013 (16), der det ble lagt frem resultater knyttet til individuelle forskjeller, jobbtilfredshet, sykefravaer, arbeidsmiljø og helse (5)(6)(7)(8). I løpet av 2013 har syv nye artikler blitt publisert (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15), og denne artikkelen vil presentere funn fra disse samt en oppdatering av prosjektet.…”