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Table 3 Association between labour market participation patterns and sickness absence trajectories (> 15 accumulated days on sickness absence per quarter) in salaried workers from early, middle, and late working life cohorts (WLCs; N = 11,968). Catalonia (Spain), 2012–2014 (odds ratios [ORs] and 95% confidence intervals [CIs])

From: Sickness absence trajectories following labour market participation patterns: a cohort study in Catalonia (Spain), 2012–2014

WOMEN

 

Sickness absence trajectoriesa

 

Early WLC (N = 2670)

Middle WLC (N = 2739)

Late WLC (N = 1995)

High stable vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

Decreasing vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

Decreasing vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

OR (95% CI)

Labour market participation patterns

Crude model

  Stable employment

1

1

1

1

1

1

  Increasing employment

0.90 (0.58–1.40)

1.07 (0.68–1.66)

1.09 (0.75–1.59)

0.72 (0.42–1.26)

1.19 (0.63–2.24)

1.41 (0.91–2.18)

  Without long-term coverage (early and late) /Fluctuant employment (middle)

0.70 (0.37–1.31)

0.90 (0.49–1.66)

0.97 (0.66–1.43)

0.80 (0.47–1.34)

1.16 (0.54–2.47)

1.10 (0.63–1.94)

  N/A (early and middle)/Decreasing employment (late)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

1.34 (0.73–2.49)

0.94 (0.56–1.58)

Adjusted model b

  Stable employment

1

1

1

1

1

1

  Increasing employment

0.80 (0.46–1.38)

1.35 (0.77–2.37)

1.07 (0.57–2.01)

1.10 (0.47–2.60)

1.21 (0.37–3.96)

0.92 (0.42–2.02)

  Without long-term coverage (early and late) /Fluctuant employment (middle)

0.56 (0.24–1.32)

1.13 (0.46–2.78)

0.89 (0.51–1.55)

1.13 (0.55–2.32)

1.40 (0.21–9.13)

0.56 (0.15–2.06)

  N/A (early and middle)/Decreasing employment (late)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

0.90 (0.31–2.59)

0.70 (0.34–1.45)

MEN

Early WLC (N = 1315)

Middle WLC (N = 1747)

Late WLC (N = 1502)

High stable vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

Decreasing vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

High stable vs low stable

Increasing vs low stable

Crude model

  Stable employment

1

1

1

1

1

1

  Increasing employment

1.13 (0.71–1.81)

0.38 (0.13–1.09)

0.55 (0.26–1.15)

0.93 (0.61–1.44)

1.19 (0.68–2.10)

  Fluctuant employment (early)/Decreasing employment (middle and late)

1.24 (0.72–2.11)

1.18 (0.53–2.62)

0.81 (0.32–2.05)

0.79 (0.40–1.55)

0.73 (0.34–1.57)

  N/A (early)/Steeply decreasing employment (middle and late)

N/A

N/A

1.37 (0.69–2.73)

0.87 (0.48–1.59)

1.15 (0.72–1.84)

0.86 (0.11–6.73)

Adjusted model b

  Stable employment

1

1

1

1

1

1

  Increasing employment

1.27 (0.58–2.77)

0.21 (0.05–0.96)

0.79 (0.26–2.44)

0.97 (0.46–2.04)

1.73 (0.59–5.03)

  Fluctuant employment (early) /Decreasing employment (middle and late)

1.20 (0.56–2.59)

0.74 (0.23–2.34)

1.11 (0.30–4.10)

0.78 (0.30–2.01)

1.42 (0.42–4.80)

  N/A (early)/ Steeply decreasing employment (middle and late)

N/A

N/A

1.81 (0.73–4.47)

0.94 (0.45–1.96)

1.38 (0.74–2.59)

0.76 (0.06–0.34)

  1. The low stable class is the reference group for the multinomial logistic regression analysis; bmodel adjusted for type of contract, working time, occupational category, income in quartiles, diagnosis group during 2012–2014, and time of employment during 2002–2011.