Karlsen, Geir Runar; Ytterstad, Elinor (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-05)
There are two different kinds of sickness absence in Norway: self-certified absence (SCA), and
medically-certified absence (MCA). In this study of 6437 Norwegian employees, we applied
logistic regression models for a dichotomous SCA variable on initially 38 independent vari-
ables including age and gender. Our findings showed that employees reporting long-term
health issues but no record of MCA ...