Table 3.
Factors associated with sickness absenteeism among horticulture employees in Lume District, southeast Ethiopia, 2014
| Variables | Sickness absenteeism | Crude OR (95 % CI) |
Adjusted OR (95 % CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||
| Periodic medical checkup | ||||
| Yes | 36 | 50 | 1 | 1 |
| No | 311 | 193 | 2.2(1.4, 3.6) | 3.6(2.1, 6.1) |
| Working hours per week | ||||
| ≤48 | 302 | 221 | 1 | 1 |
| >48 | 45 | 22 | 1.5(0.9, 2.6) | 1.9(1.0, 3.5) |
| Worked overtime | ||||
| No | 88 | 108 | 1 | 1 |
| Yes | 259 | 135 | 2.4(1.7, 3.3) | 2.8(1.9, 4.2) |
| Job satisfaction | ||||
| Satisfied | 84 | 83 | 1 | 1 |
| Dissatisfied | 263 | 160 | 1.6(1.1, 2.3) | 1.8(1.2, 2.7) |
| Workplace stress | ||||
| Not stressed | 106 | 114 | 1 | 1 |
| Stressed | 241 | 129 | 2.0(1.4, 2.8) | 2.0(1.4, 2.9) |