ArticleBMJ open2022
Poor psychosocial job conditions increase sickness absence: evidence from the PATH Through Life Mid-Aged Cohort.
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- A Healthy Healthcare Workforce? Sick and Annual Leave Patterns in Victorian Healthcare Workers, 2012 to 2024.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Psychosocial well-being index and sick leave in the workplace: a structural equation modeling of Wittyfit data.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Early retirement intentions among Abu Dhabi Police: investigating the role of psychosocial work factors and sickness absenteeism.BMC public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesEvidence is mounting that poor psychosocial job conditions increase sickness absence, but there is a need for further rigorous prospective research to isolate the influence of psychosocial job quality from other measured and unmeasured confounders. This study used four waves of prospective longitudinal data (spanning 12 years) to investigate the extent to which increases in poor psychosocial job quality are associated with greater relative risk of day of sickness absence.
designProspective cohort study.
settingData were from the Australian PATH Through Life cohort study. The analyses adopted hybrid-regression estimations that isolated the effect of within-person change in psychosocial job quality on sickness absence over time.
participantsParticipants were from a midlife cohort aged 40-44 at baseline (7644 observations from 2221 participants). PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE: Days sickness absence in the past 4 weeks.
resultsThe results show that after adjusting for a wide range of factors as well as unmeasured between-person differences in job quality, each additional psychosocial job adversity was associated with a 12% increase in the number of days of sickness absence (relative risk ratio: 1.12, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.21). Increases in psychosocial job adversity were also related to greater functional impairment (relative risk ratio: 1.17 (1.05 to 1.30)).
conclusionThe results of this study strengthen existing research highlighting the importance of addressing poor psychosocial job quality as a risk factor for sickness absence.
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