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Table 3 Checking Alcohol Use for Employees with Work Disability

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

%

95% CI

%

p-value

Working despite permanent work disability (N = 282)

43.3 (N = 122)

37.5–49.0

0.006

Long sick leave > 90 days (N = 120)

32.5 (N = 39)

24.1–40.9

< 0.001

61–90-day sick leave (N = 55)

23.6 (N = 13)

12.4–34.9

< 0.001

31–60-day sick leave (N = 39)

33.3 (N = 13)

18.5–48.1

0.014

≤30-day sick leave (N = 37)

54.1 (N = 20)

38.0–70.1

0.877

At risk of needing sick leave (N = 249)

55.4 (N = 138)

49.2–61.6

Reference

  1. Data from the Health Check-up – Quality Measurement (N = 782) 2013–2019. Patients attended the health check-up due to sick leave or they were working despite permanent work disability or they were at risk of needing sick leave
  2. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p < 0.05)
  3. CI Confidence interval