Adolescent Spinal Pain-Related Absenteeism as an Antecedent for Early Adulthood Work Presenteeism. Issue 12 (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Beales, Darren; Coenen, Pieter; Smith, Anne; Harris, Mark; Pransky, Glenn; O'Sullivan, Peter; Straker, Leon
• Is Part Of: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. Volume 62:Issue 12(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: back pain -- neck pain -- productivity -- Raine Study -- work; Medicine, Industrial -- Periodicals; Environmental health -- Periodicals; Occupational Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental Medicine -- Periodicals; Environmental health; Medicine, Industrial; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.9803
• DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002045
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2752

Abstract

Abstract : Objectives: This study investigated spinal pain-related absenteeism at age 17 as a potential precursor to work presenteeism at age 23. Methods: A longitudinal study was performed with Raine Study Gen2 participants ( n = 451). Spinal pain-related absenteeism from school/work was collected at the 17 year follow-up. Presenteeism (due to ill-health or any other reason) was collected quarterly during one year around the age of 23. Zero-inflated binominal regression analysis was conducted. Results: Participants with adolescent spinal pain-related absenteeism reported higher work presenteeism in early adulthood than those without pain (155.7 h/y compared to 77.7 h/y), with an incident rate ratio (95% confidence interval) of 1.41 (1.04 to 1.92) after adjusting for sex, occupational class and multimorbidity count. Conclusions: Targeting factors associated with absenteeism behaviours during early life may have significant benefits for future work productivity. Abstract : Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text