Table 3.

Fully adjusted^a associations between work–family demands and non-psychiatric/cause-specific sickness absence (1995–2003) in the GAZEL cohort study, RR (95% CI)

Variable	Non-psychiatric absence days	Cancer absence spells	Gastro-intestinal spells	Circulatory spells	Work-related accident spells	Orthopaedic spells
Work and family demands
No dependants	1.04 (0.83–1.32)	0.68 (0.29–1.63)	0.91 (0.66–1.25)	0.94 (0.63–1.41)	1.02 (0.77–1.35)	1.13 (1.11–1.34)
Low	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Moderate	1.10 (0.97–1.25)	0.66 (0.42–1.06)	1.09 (0.92–1.27)	1.23 (1.01–1.48)	1.10 (0.95–1.27)	1.11 (0.99–1.26)
High	1.39 (1.3–1.73)	0.88 (0.37–2.08)	1.59 (1.23–2.07)	1.59 (1.15–2.19)	1.52 (1.20–1.93)	1.34 (1.08–1.66)
Occupational grade
High	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Intermediate	2.04 (1.78–2.35)	1.26 (0.80–2.44)	1.86 (1.57–2.22)	1.73 (1.41–2.12)	2.29 (1.95–2.69)	2.42 (2.08–2.81)
Low	2.85 (2.41–3.37)	1.30 (0.69–2.44)	2.56 (2.07–3.16)	2.38 (1.84–3.06)	3.14 (2.39–3.81)	4.42 (3.73–5.23)

a: Adjusted for occupational grade, sex, age, marital status, smoking, body weight and alcohol consumption