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Table 2 Severe MUPS and univariate associations with socio-demographic variables, psychiatric morbidity, health anxiety, distress, OHP diagnosis, attribution employee and duration of sickness absence on consultation day

From: Severe MUPS in a sick-listed population: a cross-sectional study on prevalence, recognition, psychiatric co-morbidity and impairment

 

PHQ 15+

N = 74

PHQ 15-

N = 415

p-value a

Female %

73.0

56.6

0.008

Age mean (SD)

42.5 (9.2)

45.0 (10.0)

0.040c

Education %

High/average/low

20.0/55.7/24.3

35.5/44.4/19.6

0.031b

Autochtone %

75.3

88.6

0.003

Married/living together/alone %

46.6/11.0/42.5

57.7/14.7/27.6

0.038

PHQ-15 mean (SD)

19.2 (2.6)

8.2 (3.9)

<0.001d

Major depressive disorder %

64.9

14.7

<0.001

Other depressive disorder %

10.8

13.5

0.528

PHQ-9 mean (SD)

16.5 (5.4)

7.2 (5.6)

<0.001d

Panic disorder %

21.6

3.6

<0.001

Other anxiety disorder %

44.6

10.6

<0.001

4DSQ severe MUPS mean (SD)

22.6 (5.5)

9.4 (6.0)

<0.001d

Whitely Index (health anxiety) mean (SD)

7.0 (2.9)

4.1 (2.9)

<0.001d

Physical symptoms %

94.5

88.6

0.128

OHP diagnosis*(%)

   

Mental disorder

62.2

39.8

<0.001

Musculoskeletal disorder

10.8

29.6

<0.001

Other disorder

27.0

30.6

0.537

Attribution** employee to a (%):

Physical causes

30.4

54.3

p < 0.001

Mental causes

26.1

15.4

p = 0.031

Both causes

40.6

23.7

p = 0.004

Physiological causes

1.4

6.1

p = 0.118

Do not know

1.4

0.6

P = 0.407

Duration of sick leave (days) on day of

consultation

   

Median

135

121

0.248d

Mean (SD)

238.7 (283.2)

176.1 (190.4)

 
  1. * CAS-classification of OHP
  2. ** For employees with physical complaints
  3. a X2 test; b X2 trend test;c Independent Students' t test;d Mann-Whitney U test