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Erschienen in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 1/2015

01.01.2015 | Original Article

Updating and prospective validation of a prognostic model for high sickness absence

verfasst von: C. A. M. Roelen, M. W. Heymans, J. W. R. Twisk, W. van Rhenen, S. Pallesen, B. Bjorvatn, B. E. Moen, N. Magerøy

Erschienen in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Ausgabe 1/2015

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Abstract

Objectives

To further develop and validate a Dutch prognostic model for high sickness absence (SA).

Methods

Three-wave longitudinal cohort study of 2,059 Norwegian nurses. The Dutch prognostic model was used to predict high SA among Norwegian nurses at wave 2. Subsequently, the model was updated by adding person-related (age, gender, marital status, children at home, and coping strategies), health-related (BMI, physical activity, smoking, and caffeine and alcohol intake), and work-related (job satisfaction, job demands, decision latitude, social support at work, and both work-to-family and family-to-work spillover) variables. The updated model was then prospectively validated for predictions at wave 3.

Results

1,557 (77 %) nurses had complete data at wave 2 and 1,342 (65 %) at wave 3. The risk of high SA was under-estimated by the Dutch model, but discrimination between high-risk and low-risk nurses was fair after re-calibration to the Norwegian data. Gender, marital status, BMI, physical activity, smoking, alcohol intake, job satisfaction, job demands, decision latitude, support at the workplace, and work-to-family spillover were identified as potential predictors of high SA. However, these predictors did not improve the model’s discriminative ability, which remained fair at wave 3.

Conclusions

The prognostic model correctly identifies 73 % of Norwegian nurses at risk of high SA, although additional predictors are needed before the model can be used to screen working populations for risk of high SA.
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Metadaten
Titel
Updating and prospective validation of a prognostic model for high sickness absence
verfasst von
C. A. M. Roelen
M. W. Heymans
J. W. R. Twisk
W. van Rhenen
S. Pallesen
B. Bjorvatn
B. E. Moen
N. Magerøy
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Ausgabe 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-014-0942-9

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