Table 3.

Odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) showing the associations between background variables and positive encounters promoting ability to return to work among women on long-term sickness absence (SA) due to breast cancer (BC) (n = 187) and among women on long-term SA due to other diagnosis (n = 6010), respectively

	Crude OR (95% CI) Women on SA due to BC	Adjusted ORa (95% CI) Women on SA due to BC	Crude OR (95% CI) Women on SA due to other diagnoses	Adjusted ORa (95% CI) Women on SA due to other diagnoses
Age
19–54	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
55–65	0.7 (0.4–1.0)	0.5 (0.3–1.0)	0.8 (0.8–0.9)	0.7 (0.6–0.8)
Country of birth
Sweden	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Elsewhere	0.5 (0.2–1.2)	0.5 (0.2–1.1)	0.6 (0.5–0.7)	0.6 (0.5–0.7)
Education
Primary/secondary school	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
College/university	1.3 (0.7–2.3)	1.2 (0.7–2.2)	1.7 (1.5–1.9)	1.7 (1.5–1.8)
Depressive symptoms
No	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)	1 (ref)
Yes	0.9 (0.5–1.9)	1.1 (0.6–2.3)	0.8 (0.7–0.9)	0.8 (0.7–0.9)

^aMutually adjusted