Comprehensive evaluation of the impact of workplace exposures on physician-certified sick leave in the general working population.

Background: Our objective was to quantify the prospective associations between work factors across chemical, physical, mechanical, and psychosocial domains and the onset of medically certified sick leave.

Methods: Eligible respondents were interviewed in 2009, 2013, or 2016 and were registered in the national sick leave register with an employee relationship lasting more than 50 working days during the year of the survey interviews and the following year (n = 15,294 observations). To focus on the onset of high-level sick leave (HLSL; >16 days a year), we excluded individuals with HLSL during the survey year (baseline).

Adverse social behaviour at work and health-related employment exit: a prospective population-based four-wave survey.

Background: The level of evidence for various aspects of adverse social behaviour (ASB) at work as risk factors for exit from employment due to health problems or diseases is inconclusive.

Methods: We obtained data from four consecutive surveys (2006/09/13/16) of the general population of Norway. Respondents who were interviewed in two consecutive surveys and employed at the first survey time point constituted the sample (n = 17 110 observations).

Onset of Work-Life Conflict Increases Risk of Subsequent Psychological Distress in the Norwegian Working Population.

We aimed to assess whether the onset of work-life conflict is associated with a risk of subsequent onset of psychological distress. Respondents from a randomly drawn cohort of the general Norwegian working population were interviewed in 2009 (T1), 2013 (T2), and 2016 (T3) (gross sample = 13,803). Participants reporting frequent work-life conflict at T1 and/or psychological distress (five-item Hopkins Symptom Checklist mean score ≥ 2) at T2 were excluded to establish a design that allowed us to study the effect of the onset of work-life conflict at T2 on psychological distress at T3.

Work-life interference and physician-certified sick leave: a prospective study of a general working population.

Background: Work-life interference has been associated with adverse health outcomes. Here, we quantify the association between work-life interference and subsequent sick leave.

Methods: Respondents from a randomly drawn cohort of the general working Norwegian population were interviewed in 2009, 2013 and/or 2016.

Occupation and 20-year hearing decline: findings from The HUNT Study.

Background: Studies show that certain occupations are associated with an increased risk of hearing loss. However, many studies are cross-sectional, and the few longitudinal studies are mostly small or focus on only one occupation.

Aims: We aimed to quantify the long-term hearing decline among workers in different occupations and assess whether the change differs between the occupations.