Table 4.
Risk of sickness certification, sick leave over 16 days and over 12 weeks in a new episode of common mental disorder in Norwegian general practice, separately for depression and acute stress reaction Odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals in brackets
| Depression | Stress related | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sickness certificate | Sick leave > 16 days |
Sick leave > 12 weeks |
Sickness certificate | Sick leave > 16 days |
Sick leave > 12 weeks |
|
| Patient characteristics | ||||||
| Male | 0.84*** | 0.83*** | 0.99 | 0.90* | 0.84*** | 0.84*** |
| [0.79, 0.88] | [0.78, 0.88] | [0.91, 1.14] | [0.82, 0.98] | [0.77, 0.90] | [0.74, 0.95] | |
| Age/10 | 0.87*** | 0.99 | 1.09*** | 0.94** | 1.17*** | 1.29*** |
| [0.85, 0.90] | [0.96, 1.02] | [1.05, 1.14] | [0.90, 0.98] | [1.13, 1.22] | [1.22, 1.36] | |
| Labour income | 1.01*** | 1.01*** | 1.01*** | 1.01*** | 1.00* | 1.00 |
| [1.01, 1.01] | [1.01, 1.01] | [1.00, 1.01] | [1.00, 1.01] | [1.00, 1.00] | [1.00, 1.00] | |
| Education: low education reference | ||||||
| Medium education | 0.86*** | 0.93* | 0.93 | 0.94 | 1.02 | 0.93 |
| [0.81, 0.92] | [0.87, 1.00] | [0.85, 1.03] | [0.85, 1.04] | [0.93, 1.12] | [0.81, 1.18] | |
| High education | 0.68*** | 0.81*** | 0.89* | 0.81*** | 1.07 | 1.08 |
| [0.64, 0.73] | [0.75, 0.87] | [0.80, 0.99] | [0.73, 0.91] | [0.97, 1.19] | [0.92, 1.26] | |
| Civil status: unmarried reference | ||||||
| Married | 1.16*** | 1.26*** | 1.23*** | 1.09 | 1.16** | 1.27*** |
| [1.09, 1.24] | [1.17, 1.36] | [1.11, 1.36] | [0.99, 1.20] | [1.06, 1.26] | [1.10, 1.47] | |
| Divorced | 1.28*** | 1.28*** | 1.18** | 0.93 | 1.14* | 1.30*** |
| [1.20, 1.38] | [1.17, 1.39] | [1.05, 1.33] | [0.84, 1.04] | [1.02, 1.26] | [1.10, 1.54] | |
| Year on GP list | 1.02** | 1.02** | 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| [1.01, 1.03] | [1.01, 1.04] | [0.99, 1.03] | [0.99, 1.03] | [0.99, 1.02] | [0.98, 1.03] | |
| GP characteristics | ||||||
| Specialist | 0.94 | 0.91* | 0.93 | 0.93 | 0.88** | 0.85* |
| [0.87, 1.01] | [0.84, 0.98] | [0.85, 1.02] | [0.82, 1.04] | [0.81, 0.96] | [0.75, 0.96] | |
| Male | 1.11** | 1.02 | 0.92 | 1.12* | 0.88** | 0.87* |
| [1.03, 1.19] | [0.95, 1.10] | [0.84, 1.01] | [1.00, 1.26] | [0.81, 0.96] | [0.77, 0.98] | |
| Age/10 | 1.09*** | 1.05* | 1.00 | 0.80*** | 0.97 | 0.99 |
| [1.05, 1.14] | [1.00, 1.09] | [0.95, 1.05] | [0.75, 0.85] | [0.93, 1.02] | [0.92, 1.07] | |
| List length | 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.98** | 0.99 | 0.99* | 0.98** |
| [0.99, 1.01] | [0.98, 1.00] | [0.97, 0.99] | [0.98, 1.01] | [0.98, 1.00] | [0.97, 1.00] | |
| N | 29 297 | 29 297 | 29 297 | 14 826 | 14 826 | 14 826 |
N = 77903 employed patients 18–67 years. Exponentiated coefficients; 95% confidence intervals in brackets.
*P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.