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Table 4 Associations between number of musculoskeletal pain sites at baseline and re-employment at three-year follow-up

From: Musculoskeletal pain and re-employment among unemployed job seekers: a three-year follow-up study

Number of musculoskeletal pain sites

Re-employment at 3-year follow-up

   

OR (95 % CI)

Model Ia

Model IIb

Model IIIc

Multiple imputation modeld

0

1.00

1.00

1.00

1.00

1

0.99 (0.45–2.16)

0.82 (0.36–1.88)

0.85 (0.35–2.10)

0.86 (0.40–1.84)

2

1.04 (0.48–2.22)

1.26 (0.55–2.88)

1.57 (0.61–4.02)

1.05 (0.48–2.27)

3

0.48 (0.23–0.99)

0.58 (0.26–1.29)

0.86 (0.35–2.09)

0.68 (0.31–1.47)

4

0.51 (0.27–0.99)

0.72 (0.35–1.49)

0.69 (0.29–1.61)

0.66 (0.33–1.32)

  1. aUnadjusted model
  2. bAdjusted for age, gender, educational attainment, and marital status
  3. cAdjusted Model II + duration of unemployment, participation in CHC, alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, somatic diseases and depression
  4. Models I, II, and III are based on complete-case analysis (N = 284)
  5. dAdjusted for age, gender, educational attainment, marital status, duration of unemployment, participation in CHC, alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, somatic diseases and depression (N = 539)