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Does Exposure to High Job Demands, Low Decision Authority, or Workplace Violence Mediate the Association between Employment in the Health and Social Care Industry and Register-Based Sickness Absence? A Longitudinal Study of a Swedish Cohort
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute.
Number of Authors: 42022 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 1, article id 53Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Background: The aim of this paper was to investigate if job demands, decision authority, and workplace violence mediate the association between employment in the health and social care industry and register-based sickness absence. Methods: Participants from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health who responded to questionnaires in 2006–2016 (n = 3951) were included. Multilevel autoregressive cross-lagged mediation models were fitted to the data. Employment in the health and social care industry at one time point was used as the predictor variable and register-based sickness absence >14 days as the outcome variable. Self-reported levels of job demands, decision authority, and exposure to workplace violence from the first time point were used as mediating variables. Results: The direct path between employment in the health and social care industry and sickness absence >14 days was, while adjusting for the reverse path, 0.032, p = 0.002. The indirect effect mediated by low decision authority was 0.002, p = 0.006 and the one mediated by exposure to workplace violence was 0.008, p = 0.002. High job demands were not found to mediate the association. Conclusion: Workplace violence and low decision authority may, to a small extent, mediate the association between employment in the health and social care industry and sickness absence.

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2022. Vol. 19, no 1, article id 53
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structural equation model, multilevel model, mediation model, indirect effect, industry level
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-202303DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19010053ISI: 000751091100001PubMedID: 35010313OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-202303DiVA, id: diva2:1639692
Available from: 2022-02-22 Created: 2022-02-22 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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