ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2014
Work Ability Index as tool to identify workers at risk of premature work exit.
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- Relationships Between Cardiovascular Autonomic Profile and Work Ability in Patients With Pure Autonomic Failure.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Work Ability Assessment and Its Relationship with Cardiovascular Autonomic Profile in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Validation of the Croatian Version of Work Ability Index (WAI) in Population of Nurses on Transformed Item-Specific Scores.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2020Article
- Important work demands for reducing sickness absence among workers with neck or upper back pain: a prospective cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Article
- Personal meaning of work and perceived work ability among middle-aged workers with physically strenuous work: a Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2019Article
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- Self-Reported Work Ability Predicts Rehabilitation Measures, Disability Pensions, Other Welfare Benefits, and Work Participation: Longitudinal Findings from a Sample of German Employees.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2018Article
- Differences of Four Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns in Work Ability and Other Work-Related Perceptions in a Finance Company.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the Work Ability Index (WAI) as tool for identifying workers at risk of premature work exit in terms of disability pension, unemployment, or early retirement.
methodsProspective cohort study of 11,537 male construction workers (mean age 45.5 years), who completed the WAI at baseline and reported their work status (employed, unemployed, disability pension, or retired) after mean 2.3 years of follow-up. Associations between WAI scores and work status were investigated by multinomial logistic regression analysis. The ability of the WAI to discriminate between workers at high and low risk of premature work exit was analyzed by the area (AUC) under the receiver operating characteristic curve.
results9,530 (83 %) construction workers had complete data for analysis. At follow-up, 336 (4 %) workers reported disability pension, 125 (1 %) unemployment, and 255 (3 %) retirement. WAI scores were prospectively associated with the risk of disability pension at follow-up, but not with the risk of unemployment and early retirement. The WAI showed fair discrimination to identify workers at risk of disability pension [AUC = 0.74; 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.70-0.77]. The discriminative ability decreased with age from AUC = 0.78 in workers aged 30-39 years to AUC = 0.69 in workers ≥50 years of age. Discrimination failed for unemployment (AUC = 0.51; 95 % CI 0.47-0.55) and early retirement (AUC = 0.58; 95 % CI 0.53-0.61).
conclusionsThe WAI can be used to identify construction workers <50 years of age at increased risk of disability pension and invite them for preventive interventions.
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