Is sickness absence related to attitudes? Several studies point to attitudes as an important factor for sickness absence. We study the relation between sickness absence and attitudes towards possible reasons for sick leave, towards cheating and towards work, by linking a survey among Norwegian healthcare workers, aimed at identifying attitudes, to detailed data on sickness absence from the empl...

This study assessed the impact of health-promotion program participation on short-term and long-term disability absence days during a 6-year period in a manufacturing company. Male, hourly, active employees (n = 4189) were analyzed from 1995 to 2000. Disability absences were compared for program participants and nonparticipants from baseline (1995) through 5 years of the program. The percentage...

Pocock, S. J. (1973). Brit. J. industr. Med., 30, 64-70. Relationship between sickness absence and length of service. A longitudinal study of 454 new employees in one factory showed that sickness absence rates in the first six months of service were less than half the rates during the next four and a half years. This is presumed to be partially caused by the lack of company sick pay during this...

claims for sick benefit reached a weekly figure of approximately 450% above the seasonal average. Strains of the Hong Kong variant of influenza virus A2 were isolated in the area. Returns from councils of absence owing to illness, believed to be influenza, during December and January were as follows. Unvaccinated 164 Off sick 41 Vaccinated once only 27 Off sick 7 Vaccinated twice 85 Off sick ni...

BACKGROUND Alongside work environment factors, interference between work and domestic life has been proposed as an important explanation for long-term sickness absence, particularly for women. The aim was to investigate the association between work-to-family interference, family-to-work interference and long-term sickness absence among women and men in different family- and work-related setting...

BACKGROUND Attempts to identify particular aspects of psychosocial work conditions as predictors of sickness absence remain inconclusive. A global measure has previously been suggested to be an efficient way to measure psychosocial work conditions in questionnaires. This paper investigates whether satisfaction with specific aspects of psychosocial work conditions explains sickness absence beyon...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychosocial work demands have a different impact on sickness absence and presenteeism in countries with a high vs. countries with a low Human Development Index (HDI). METHODS This article is based on an analysis of the fifth European Working Conditions Survey. We investigated single items as well as complex constructs and indices....

BACKGROUND It is unclear if objective selection of employees, for an intervention to prevent sickness absence, is more effective than subjective 'personal enlistment'. We hypothesize that objectively selected employees are 'at risk' for sickness absence and eligible to participate in the intervention program. METHODS The dispatch of 8603 screening instruments forms the starting point of the o...

Spike-and-wave discharge is an electroencephalographic brainwave found in many rodent species and studied rigorously in inbred laboratory rats (WAG/Rij and GAERS strains) for its similarities to absence epilepsy. The absence epilepsy research field, however, is divided on just how similar SWD in rats is to absence epilepsy in humans. Albino Sprague Dawley rats are an outbred strain used in many...

In many studies a fundamental difference between two types of generalized epileptic activity, convulsive epilepsy and absence non-convulsive epilepsy was described. All forms of convulsive epilepsy, both in human and animal models, are characterized by increased activity of excitatory amino acid transmitter systems (Hara et al., 2006; Leke et al., 2006; Schilling et al., 2006) and/or decreased ...