TY - JOUR T1 - Work in Brief JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - 787 LP - 787 VL - 63 IS - 12 AU - Dana Loomis Y1 - 2006/12/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/63/12/787.2.abstract N2 - Researchers have explored a broad range of factors in efforts to predict health-related absence from work—a condition costly to employers, workers, and society. In this issue, Lötters and colleagues1 approach the problem from a biopsychosocial perspective, using a 1-year follow-up study to investigate the relationship of duration of sick leave to depressive symptoms, fear-avoidance and self-efficacy among 187 workers compensated for musculoskeletal disorders. The authors report that in regression analyses adjusting for other individual and occupational factors, depressive symptoms and poor health were the major predictors of … ER -