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Adolescent Spinal Pain-Related Absenteeism as an Antecedent for Early Adulthood Work Presenteeism.

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Beales, Darren
Coenen, Pieter
Smith, Anne
Harris, Mark
Pransky, Glenn
OʼSullivan, Peter
Straker, Leon
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2020
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Beales, D. and Coenen, P. and Smith, A. and Harris, M. and Pransky, G. and OʼSullivan, P. and Straker, L. 2020. Adolescent Spinal Pain-Related Absenteeism as an Antecedent for Early Adulthood Work Presenteeism. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 62 (12): pp 1046-1051.
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Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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OBJECTIVES: This study investigated spinal pain-related absenteeism at age 17 as a potential precursor to work presenteeism at age 23.

METHODS: A longitudinal study was performed with Raine Study Gen2 participants (n = 451). Spinal pain-related absenteeism from school/work was collected at the 17 year follow-up. Presenteeism (due to ill-health or any other reason) was collected quarterly during one year around the age of 23. Zero-inflated binominal regression analysis was conducted.

RESULTS: Participants with adolescent spinal pain-related absenteeism reported higher work presenteeism in early adulthood than those without pain (155.7 hours/year compared to 77.7 hours/year), with an incident risk ratio (95% confidence interval) of 1.41 (1.04 to 1.92) after adjusting for sex, occupational class and multimorbidity count.

CONCLUSIONS: Targeting factors associated with absenteeism behaviours during early life may have significant benefits for future work productivity.