Table IV.

Final multivariate model of the relationships of patient's family, leisure time, and work situation to sickness certification after adjustment for the effects of patient age, sex, mother tongue, education, and professional status.

		All diseases			Infectious diseases			Musculoskeletal diseases
	OR	95% CI	χ2	OR	95% CI	χ2	OR	95% CI	χ2
Social support score	0.60	0.44–0.83	9.64	0.69	0.39–1.20	1.74	0.94	0.54–1.64	0.05
Worry about work-related injury or illness	1.91	1.20–3.02	7.50	1.66	0.69–4.01	1.28	2.37	1.14–4.94	5.34
Authority over decision score	0.68	0.51–0.91	6.62	0.70	0.46–1.22	1.58	0.81	0.50–1.32	0.74
Partner, no children	1.68	1.04–2.72	4.54	1.37	0.56–3.32	0.48	1.77	0.80–3.91	1.99
Demand score	1.37	0.86–2.18	1.70	2.55	1.14–5.72	5.20	1.55	0.74–3.24	1.37
Spending time with people outside the family	0.77	0.44–1.35	0.84	0.38	0.16–0.90	4.88	1.17	0.46–2.96	0.11

Notes: OR = odds ratio, 95% CI = 95 % confidence interval, χ² = Wald's chi-squared estimate.