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Table 3 Patients' assessment of health and sickness related factors, their effects on daily life and work and effect on sick listing.

From: How primary health care physicians make sick listing decisions: The impact of medical factors and functioning

   

Multivariate analysis

 

Frequencies

All diseases

Infectious diseases

Musculoskeletal diseases

 

not sick listed n/%

sick listed n/%

OR1) 95%CI

OR1) 95% CI

OR1) 95% CI

Group A questions

     

My general health:

missing 8

     

   Mostly healthy and feel well

240/67.8

64/57.1

1.08

0.64–1.81

N.A.2)

N.A2)

   One or more diseases and seldom or never feel well

7/2.0

9/8.0

2.27

0.74–6.96

N.A.2)

N.A.2)

Sick listing during the last year

missing 3

189/53.1

82/71.3

1.67

1.23–2.26

1.76

0.99–3.14

2.08

1.21–3.55

Exercise weekly or more often to sweatiness or breathless

missing 27

170/50.6

49/44.1

N.A2).

0.40

0.18–0.87

N.A.2)

Appointment because of:

missing 3

     

   complaints/pain from back, neck, arms/hands or legs/feet

93/26.0

63/54.3

3.49

2.23–5.46

N.A.2)

N.A.2)

   tiredness

24/6.7

17/14.7

2.50

1.25–5.03

2.78

0.94–8.24

N.A.2)

   anxiety, nervousness, depression, insomnia

15/4.2

11/9.5

2.01

0.83–4.88

N.A.2)

N.A.2)

Group B questions

     

My complaints/pain severely limited me from:

     

occupational work

missing 10

84/26.6

81/81.8

12.43

7.04–21.94

6.35

2.41–16.71

12.98

5.06–33.29

usual leisure activities

missing 18

141/41.0

69/61.6

0.56

0.29–1.10

0.98

0.23–4.16

N.A.2)

doing daily home work

missing 13

69/19.7

56/50.5

1.55

0.84–2.89

1.06

0.40–2.79

1.14

0.41–3.18

sleeping

missing 15

62/17.9

37/33.0

1.06

0.43–2.61

N.A.2)

2.55

0.93–6.99

seeing friends

missing 18

72/20.8

33/30.3

0.55

0.20–1.53

1.02

0.30–3.43

N.A.2)

taking care of my children

missing 88 3)

25/11.8

14/23.7

0.46

0.15–1.37

N.A.2)

N.A.2)

taking good care of myself

missing 19

17/4.9

13/11.8

1.30

0.35–4.87

N.A.2)

N.A.2)

  1. 1) odds ratio and 95% confidence interval.
  2. 2) not applicable due to non-significance in bivariate analysis.
  3. 3) 13 of them were 'true missing', i.e. lived with children.