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Predictive validity...
Predictive validity of the Work Ability Index and its individual items in the general population
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- Lundin, Andreas (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Leijon, Ola (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Vaez, Marjan (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Hallgren, Mats (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Torgén, Margareta (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Arbets- och miljömedicin
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- 2017-04-07
- 2017
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 45:4, s. 350-356
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Abstract
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- Aim: This study assesses the predictive ability of the full Work Ability Index (WAI) as well as its individual items in the general population.Methods: The Work, Health and Retirement Study (WHRS) is a stratified random national sample of 25-75-year-olds living in Sweden in 2000 that received a postal questionnaire (n = 6637, response rate = 53%). Current and subsequent sickness absence was obtained from registers. The ability of the WAI to predict long-term sickness absence (LTSA; 90 consecutive days) during a period of four years was analysed by logistic regression, from which the Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUC) was computed.Results: There were 313 incident LTSA cases among 1786 employed individuals. The full WAI had acceptable ability to predict LTSA during the 4-year follow-up (AUC = 0.79; 95% CI 0.76 to 0.82). Individual items were less stable in their predictive ability. However, three of the individual items: current work ability compared with lifetime best, estimated work impairment due to diseases, and number of diagnosed current diseases, exceeded AUC > 0.70. Excluding the WAI item on number of days on sickness absence did not result in an inferior predictive ability of the WAI.Conclusions: The full WAI has acceptable predictive validity, and is superior to its individual items. For public health surveys, three items may be suitable proxies of the full WAI; current work ability compared with lifetime best, estimated work impairment due to diseases, and number of current diseases diagnosed by a physician.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Self-assessment
- sickness absence
- sick leave
- WAI
- work capacity evaluation
- discriminative ability
- absenteeism
- public health
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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