@article{ref1,
title="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",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2022",
author="Nyberg, Anna and Peristera, Paraskevi and Toivanen, Susanna and Johansson, Gun",
volume="19",
number="1",
pages="e53-e53",
abstract="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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph19010053",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010053"
}