Table 5

Rate ratios of sickness absence and odds ratios of psychological distress and poor self rated health by levels of psychosocial factors in adjusted models (95% CI in parentheses); in all cases the rate/odds ratio for reference was 1.00

Medically certified sickness absenceMinor psychiatric morbidityPoor self rated health status
Model 1*Model 2†Model 1*Model 2†Model 1*Model 2†
Bold is used to highlight a significant effect.
*Adjusted for age, sex, income, health indicator at baseline, and behavioural and biological risk factors (current smoking, high alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle, and obesity).
†Additionally adjusted for those psychosocial factors that were found to be significant predictors of health in model 1 (e.g., in relation to sickness absence, procedural justice is adjusted for demographics, sickness absence at baseline, behavioural and biological factors, relational justice, decision authority, skill discretion, workload, and hostility).
Procedural justice (low v high) 1.15 (1.07 to 1.23) 1.08 (1.01 to 1.16) 1.44 (1.22 to 1.72) 1.30 (1.08 to 1.56) 1.45 (1.18 to 1.77) 1.37 (1.11 to 1.69)
Relational justice (low v high) 1.22 (1.14 to 1.30) 1.13 (1.06 to 1.21) 1.19 (1.01 to 1.41) 1.00 (0.83 to 1.19)1.07 (0.88 to 1.30)
Decision authority (low v high) 1.12 (1.04 to 1.20) 1.01 (0.93 to 1.09) 1.28 (1.08 to 1.52) 1.20 (1.00 to 1.44)1.21 (0.99 to 1.49)
Skill discretion (low v high) 1.13 (1.05 to 1.21) 1.09 (1.01 to 1.18) 1.15 (0.95 to 1.38) 1.31 (1.05 to 1.64) 1.34 (1.07 to 1.68)
Workload (high v low) 1.20 (1.11 to 1.29) 1.15 (1.07 to 1.24) 1.73 (1.44 to 2.07) 1.60 (1.32 to 1.92) 1.36 (1.10 to 1.67) 1.29 (1.04 to 1.61)
Social support (low v high)0.99 (0.92 to 1.06)1.17 (0.99 to 1.39)1.00 (0.82 to 1.22)
Hostility (high v low) 1.07 (1.00 to 1.15) 0.99 (0.93 to 1.06) 1.31 (1.11 to 1.56) 1.22 (1.02 to 1.45) 1.35 (1.10 to 1.65) 1.20 (0.98 to 1.48)