TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Literacy and risk of occupational injury
JO  - International archives of occupational and environmental health
A1  - Pejtersen, Jan Hyld
A1  - Holt, Helle
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - OBJECTIVE: We examined whether low literacy skills are a risk factor for occupational injury during a 5.3-year follow-up period. <br><br>METHODS: The study population was taken from the Danish participants in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) in 2011/2012. Literacy skills were based on the PIAAC survey. Data on occupational injuries were obtained from national registers. We included the 5997 employees aged 16-65 who worked during the follow-up period. We used Cox regression to estimate the risk of occupational injury as a function of literacy skills. We adjusted the analysis for gender, age, nationality at birth, educational level, occupation, weekly work hours and month of survey completion. <br><br>RESULTS: Literacy skills were divided into four categories based on the six levels of skills in PIAAC. With the highest level of literacy skills as the reference (level 4/5), the hazard ratios for occupational injury were estimated at 1.58 (95% CI 0.80-3.15) for literacy level 3, 2.04 (95% CI 0.99-4.19) for literacy level 2 and 2.29 (95% CI 1.08-4.86) for literacy level 0/1. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Employees with a low level of literacy skills are at a higher risk of occupational injury than employees with a high level of literacy skills.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0340-0131
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00420-022-01898-w
ID  - ref1
ER  -