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Table 2 Checking Alcohol Use for Employees with Reduced Work Ability

From: Occupational health care personnel tackling alcohol overuse – an observational study of work processes and patient characteristics

Reason for health check-up

Alcohol use checked in present consultation

%

95% CI

%

p-value

Alcohol use checked in the previous 12 months

%

95% CI

%

p-value

Musculoskeletal disorder (N = 585)

44.6 (N = 261)

40.6–48.6

< 0.001

27.4 (N = 160)

23.7–31

0.035

Mental health problem (N = 297)

43.8 (N = 130)

38.1–49.4

< 0.001

38.4 (N = 114)

32.9–43.9

< 0.001

Alcohol overuse (N = 42)

90.5 (N = 38)

81.6–99.4

< 0.001

9.5 (N = 4)

0.6–18.4

0.092

None of the diagnosis above (N = 289)

57.1 (N = 165)

51.4–62.8

Reference

20.8 (N = 60)

16.1–25.4

Reference

  1. Data of employees with reduced work ability from the Health Check-up – Quality Measurement 2013–2019 (N = 1092). The impact of different diagnosis causing the work disability were compared
  2. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)
  3. CI Confidence interval