We examined the possible influence of a breast cancer diagnosis on subsequent working and marital status, sickness absence and income.
In the present study we used information retrieved through record linkage between three population-based registries to investigate possible socioeconomic consequences of breast cancer survivors in terms of sickness benefits, marital status, welfare dependence, and income changes 3 and 5 years following a breast cancer diagnosis.
Employment status, sickness and disability benefits were recorded providing objective evidence of disability.
All patients were questioned about gender, history of PONV, motion sickness, and smoking status.
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) PROs will include HRQoL, symptoms and side effects, anxiety and depression, well-being, distress, lifestyle, sickness absence, work status, and social support.
As healthy functioning is a mixture of social, mental and physical status, sickness absence may be used as an integrated measure of healthy functioning and coping in working populations [ 1, 2].
Secondary outcome measures are severity of headache, functional status, sickness absence, use of other healthcare resources, active cervical range of motion, algometry, endurance of the neckflexor muscles and head posture.
General linear model analysis indicated that of age, gender, sickness absence, company position, marital status and weekly working hours the only variables that remained a significant predictor of HWB score were sickness absence and age (p < 0.0001 for both).
In 1995, Marmot in a study investigating the relationship between self reported health status and sickness absence, found a strong association between ill health and sickness absence, particularly for longer spells [ 9].
