ArticleBMC public health2021
Do work ability and life satisfaction matter for return to work? Predictive ability of the work ability index and life satisfaction questionnaire among women with long-term musculoskeletal pain.
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Workpackage 1: Baseline Prevalence and Implications of Multimorbidity for the Management of Spinal Pain Workpackage 2: The Influence of Multimorbidity Treatment Burden on Long-term Prognosis of Individuals With Spinal Pain
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Predicting Work Disability Related to Spinal Pain: A Systematic Review of the Most Clinically Relevant Tools.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- Work ability and return-to-work of patients with post-COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Quality of Life and Return to Work After Radiotherapy in Young Adults With Head-and-Neck Cancer-A Bicentric Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Cancer medicine · 2026Observational
- Longitudinal Changes in Work Ability, Well-Being, and Psychosocial Risk Factors Among Older Workers: The ProAgeing Study.La Medicina del lavoro · 2025Article
- Emotional and Work-Related Factors in the Self-Assessment of Work Ability among Italian Healthcare Workers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Factors associated with work ability among employees of an Italian university hospital.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Prevent for Work questionnaire.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Return to work status of patients under 65 years of age with osteonecrosis of the femoral head after total hip arthroplasty.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2023Article
- Work Interventions Within Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs (IPRP) - Frequency, Patient Characteristics, and Association with Self-Rated Work Ability.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Test of the Rehabilitation Goal Screening (ReGoS) Tool to Support Decision Making and Goal Setting in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Practice.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Usability of self-reported assessment of work functioning in municipal occupational rehabilitation teams: A qualitative study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Article
- Predictors of return to work among women with long-term neck/shoulder and/or back pain: A 1-year prospective study.PloS one · 2021Article
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backgroundImpaired work ability and reduced life satisfaction due to long-term musculoskeletal pain, particularly in neck, shoulders and back, are considered occupational health problems that can result in workers taking sick leave. The aim of the study was to determine whether work ability and life satisfaction predict return to work (RTW) among women with long-term neck/shoulder and/or back pain, and to assess the ability of the Work Ability Index (WAI) and the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LiSat-11) to discriminate between those who did RTW and those who did not RTW (NRTW).
methodsThis is a cohort study with 1-year follow-up. A survey was sent to 600 women receiving sick leave benefits from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. In total, 208 women responded at baseline, and 141 at a 1-year follow-up. To identify whether work ability and life satisfaction predicted RTW, multiple logistic regression analyses were performed with and without adjustment for type of work and pain intensity. To assess the discriminative ability of the WAI and the LiSat-11 for women who did RTW and those who did NRTW, receiver operating characteristic curves were fitted.
resultsWork ability predicted RTW, and the results remained significant after adjusting for type of work and pain intensity (OR 1.12, 95% CI: 1.04-1.22). Life satisfaction was not significant. The WAI at baseline adequately discriminated between RTW and NRTW after 1 year (Area under curve 0.78, 95% CI: 0.70-0.86), but the LiSat-11 did not.
conclusionsThis study supports a relationship between work ability and RTW among women on sick leave for long-term neck/shoulder and/or back pain. The results indicate that the WAI, but not the LiSat-11, can discriminate between RTW and NRTW in the population under study. Although the discriminative ability of the WAI needs to be verified in new samples before it can be recommended for use in rehabilitation settings, we suggest that healthcare professionals consider how women perceive their work ability in order to better support them in their RTW.
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