Publications by authors named "Liesbeth Wijnvoord"
Article Synopsis
- The study highlights the lack of research on health issues specifically affecting self-employed workers and introduces a new scale to measure their entrepreneurial suitability.
- The newly developed scale comprises 15 items divided into four subscales, including entrepreneurial attitude and management skills, aiming to assess various aspects of self-employment.
- Results indicate that the scale demonstrates strong reliability and validity, showing promise in helping identify psychosocial risks for self-employed individuals, which can aid in preventative health measures.
Purpose Sickness absence and work disability can be a major burden for society and for both employees and self-employed workers. Validated tools for assessing the psychosocial risk factors of long-term disability, for matching effective interventions and for deciding when to resume work can be of great value. However, no validated tools exist for self-employed workers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Little is known regarding incidence and recurrence of sickness absence in self-employed. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the number of prior episodes of sickness absence on the risk of subsequent periods of sickness absence in higher educated self-employed.
Methods: In a historic register study based on the files of a Dutch private disability insurance company all sickness absence periods of 30 days or more were analysed.
Background: Despite a large proportion of the workforce being self-employed, few studies have been conducted on risk factors for sickness absence in this population. The aim of this study is to identify risk factors for future sickness absence in a population of college and university educated self-employed.
Methods: In a historic register study based on insurance company files risk factors were identified by means of logistic regression analysis.