Table 3.
Sociodemographic characteristics and respondents' perceptions of how positive and negative encounters with healthcare professionals influenced their ability to return to work
| Return to work was… |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive encounters |
Negative encounters |
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| All n, (%) | …facilitated, n (%) | …not influenced, n (%) | …impeded, n (%) | …not influenced, n (%) | |
| Categorical variables | 590 (100) | 255 (100) | 258 (100) | 34 (100) | 221 (100) |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 414 (70) | 178 (70) | 178 (69) | 25 (74) | 151 (68) |
| Female | 176 (30) | 77 (30) | 80 (31) | 9 (26) | 70 (32) |
| Age | |||||
| 23–59 | 269 (46) | 138 (54) | 108 (42) | 21 (62) | 98 (44) |
| 60–67 | 321 (54) | 117 (46) | 150 (58) | 13 (38) | 123 (56) |
| Country of birth | |||||
| Sweden | 491 (83) | 223 (87) | 218 (84) | 24 (71) | 187 (85) |
| Other | 99 (17) | 32 (13) | 40 (16) | 10 (29) | 34 (15) |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 316 (54) | 140 (55) | 136 (53) | 17 (50) | 122 (55) |
| Unmarried | 150 (25) | 66 (26) | 69 (27) | 7 (21) | 56 (25) |
| Divorced/widowed | 124 (21) | 49 (19) | 53 (21) | 10 (29) | 43 (19) |
| Income | |||||
| Low | 108 (18) | 25 (10) | 59 (23) | 10 (29) | 50 (23) |
| Average | 297 (50) | 116 (45) | 138 (53) | 15 (44) | 118 (53) |
| High | 185 (31) | 114 (45) | 61 (24) | 9 (26) | 53 (24) |
| Level of education | |||||
| Compulsory | 145 (25) | 68 (27) | 65 (25) | 5 (15) | 60 (15) |
| High school | 345 (58) | 147 (58) | 148 (57) | 25 (74) | 121 (55) |
| University | 100 (17) | 40 (16) | 45 (17) | 4 (12) | 40 (18) |
The question read: ‘How have positive (negative) encounters from healthcare professionals affected your ability to return to work?’ There was one response option that read 1 ‘I have not been positively (negatively) encountered’. The other response options ranged from 2 ‘Impeded (facilitated) very much’ to 6 ‘Facilitated (impeded) very much’.