Bidirectional associations between workplace bullying and sickness absence due to common mental disorders – a propensity-score matched cohort study

Table 2 Hazard rates (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) from Cox proportional hazards models of the association between exposure to workplace bullying and incident sickness absence due to common mental disorders (SA-CMD), using the propensity score-matched sample^ab

	N	Cases SA-CMD	HR (95% CI)	P-value
Occurrence of workplace bullying
No	1608	87	Ref
Yes	1608	116	1.3 (1.0–1.8)	0.03
Frequency of exposure to workplace bullying
Never	1608	87	Ref
Occasional	1251	83	1.2^c (0.9–1.7)	0.16
Frequent	357	33	1.7^c (1.1–2.5)	< 0.01

^aMatched on the following covariates: sex, age, birth country, marital status, cohabiting with children, socioeconomic position, contract type, job demands, decision authority, prior SA-CMD and baseline year
^bVariance clustered by matched sets to account for matching
^cp_trend < 0.01

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