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Risk factors for disability pension over 11 years in a cohort of young persons initially sick-listed with low back, neck, or shoulder diagnoses

Division of Social Medicine and Public Health Science, Department of Health and Society, Linköpings universitet, karin.borg:ins.liu.se

Gunnel Hensing

Department of Social Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Göteborg

Kristina Alexanderson

Personal Injury Prevention, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

Aim: A study was undertaken to ascertain whether the differences in risk in relation to gender and citizenship observed in a previous study of the same cohort would remain if more recent data on sickness absence were used. Methods: This was an 11-year prospective population-based cohort study. The dataset includes all individuals in a Swedish city who, in 1985, were aged 25 - 34 and had a sick-leave spell28 days with neck, shoulder, or back diagnoses (n=213). The data covered the following: for 1985 - 96, disability pension, emigration, and death; for 1982 - 96, sickness absence; for 1985, sex and citizenship. The data were subjected to Cox regression analyses with a time-dependent covariate. Results: Disability pension was granted to 22% (n=46) of the cohort. The relative risk for disability pension increased by 9.3 with each sick-leave spell90 days during the two previous years. The risk was higher for women than men, and also higher for foreign citizens than Swedes. Conclusion: Many studies have revealed a gender difference in the risk of being on disability pension, and it was found that this difference was still apparent when sick leave during the follow-up period is taken into account. Thus, the reason for the gender differences ought to be found among other factors than prior levels of sickness absence.

Key Words: back pain • disability pension • sickness absence • sick leave.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 32, No. 4, 272-278 (2004)
DOI: 10.1080/14034940310019524


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