For many of the participants, going off work sick was associated with a fundamental change in identity.
As expected, high scores for sick leave were associated with low scores in PCS-36.
Being female, having a compulsory school education and musculoskeletal disorder related sick leave were associated with placing responsibility on the employer.
Our second aim was to investigate confounding by familial factors, that is, whether SES and sick leave were associated within twin pairs.
For example, butchering and exposure to sick poultry were associated with detection of H5 antibody among LBM workers in Hong Kong (17 ).
Our study has elucidated some employment characteristics that are associated with the likelihood that workers think they would experience serious financial problems if they had to miss work; inability to work from home and lack of paid sick leave were associated with reports of experiencing serious financial problems if isolated from work over the 3 periods: 7 10 days, 1 month, and 3 months.
In a similar research area, Swedish studies 50 52 investigated whether psychosocial work conditions, professional network, job support, social network and support, sick leave and salary were associated with work stress in nurses in chief manager positions and physicians in clinical director positions.
Low education and income were associated with sick leave granted for both mental and somatic disorders, and with sick leave granted for any disorder.
Associations with GPE after 3 months were only significant in Model I. Subgroups were associated with sick leave after 3 months in model I and II, with sick leave being most frequent in the subgroup with neurological signs.
In the crude model, different functional limitations both at MMR start and completed MMR, and also previous SLDP-episodes were associated with sick leave at month four.
