Long working hours and sickness absence—a fixed effects design
dc.contributor.author | Bernstrøm, Vilde Hoff | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-07T12:22:40Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-08T09:03:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-07T12:22:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-08T09:03:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bernstrøm, V.H. (2018). Long working hours and sickness absence—a fixed effects design. BMC Public Health,18(1). doi:10.1186/s12889-018-5473-y | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2458 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2458 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/6039 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: While long working hours seem to lead to impaired health, several studies have also shown that long working hours are related to lower levels of sickness absence. Previous studies on the relationship between long working hours and sickness absence have compared those who work long hours to those who do not, looking only at between-individual correlations. Those results might therefore reflect relatively stable differences between employees who typically work long hours and employees who typically do not. The aim of the present study is to examine within-individual correlations between long working hours and sickness absence. Methods: Records from the Human Resources department in a large Norwegian hospital from 2012 to 2015 provided objective data on both working hours and sickness absence. Two analyses were performed: a prospective cohort analysis to replicate the results from previous between-individual analyses and a second analysis of within- individual correlations using a fixed effect design. Results: In line with existing research, both between-individual and within-individual analyses showed a negative relationship between long working hours (> 48 h/week) and short-term sickness absence (1 – 8 days) and no significant difference in incidence of long-term sickness absence (> 8 days). Conclusions: The results indicate that the negative relationship between long working hours and sickness absence is not due only to relatively stable individual differences between those who typically work long hours and those who do not. The results from both analyses therefore still contrast with previous research showing a negative relationship between long working hours and other health indicators. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | BMC Public Health;18(1) | |
dc.relation.uri | https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-5473-y | |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Sickness absence | en |
dc.subject | Sykefravær | en |
dc.subject | Long working hours | en |
dc.subject | Overtid | en |
dc.subject | Work hours | en |
dc.subject | Arbeidstid | en |
dc.title | Long working hours and sickness absence—a fixed effects design | en |
dc.title.alternative | Long working hours and sickness absence—a fixed effects design | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2018-05-07T12:22:40Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5473-y | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1583910 | |
dc.source.journal | BMC Public Health | |
dc.relation.projectID | Norges forskningsråd: 237784 |
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