Table 3.
Determinants of sick leave in multivariate analysis
| Women | Men | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
Beta |
t |
p |
Beta |
t |
p |
| SRH (1–7) |
−13.2 |
−3.9 |
<0.0001 |
−9.5 |
−2.7 |
<0.01 |
| Age (years) |
−2.9 |
−9.1 |
<0.0001 |
−1.5 |
−1.5 |
<0.0001 |
| Education (1–4) |
|
|
|
−14.1 |
−3.4 |
<0.001 |
| Leisure time physical activity |
|
|
|
−17.1 |
−2.6 |
<0.01 |
| Complaint score |
4.5 |
4.7 |
<0.0001 |
2.4 |
2.3 |
<0.05 |
| Year of investigation |
−8.1 |
−3.3 |
<0.001 |
42.4 |
3.3 |
<0.001 |
| Smoking | 35.6 | 3.6 | <0.0005 | 23.0 | 2.3 | <0.05 |
Factors related to number of sick leave days during follow up among 2959 women and 3243 men with complete data available from 1986, based on multiple linear regression analysis.