Associations between number of frailty symptoms and employment outcomes and perceptions
| N (%) with work outcome among participants with no frailty symptoms | Risk factor | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ‘Prefrail’ (1–2 vs 0 symptoms) | ‘Frail’ (3–5 vs 0 symptoms) | ||||||
| Outcomes | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | PAF | N (%) | OR (95% CI) | PAF | |
| Positive | Positive | ||||||
| Entire sample (n=8095) | |||||||
| Not in work vs in work | 1468 (28.1) | 906 (35.4) | 1.4 (1.2,1.6) | 9.7% | 235 (75.1) | 10.5 (7.9,14.1) | 8.2% |
| Left for a health reason vs not | 280 (5.4) | 433 (16.9) | 3.7 (3.1,4.3) | 34.9% | 189 (60.4) | 30.0 (23.0,39.2) | 20.3% |
| Those in work (n=5486) | |||||||
| Sick leave, days past 12 months (max n=5457): | |||||||
| Any vs none | 1468 (39.4) | 827 (50.8) | 1.5 (1.4,1.7) | 12.2% | 54 (70.1) | 3.4 (2.1,5.5) | 1.6% |
| >20 days vs ≤20 days | 168 (4.5) | 169 (10.4) | 2.5 (2.0,3.1) | 27.6% | 26 (33.8) | 10.7 (6.5,17.7) | 6.5% |
| Cut down on work, past 12 months: | |||||||
| Any vs none | 787 (21.1) | 596 (36.5) | 2.2 (1.9,2.4) | 22.2% | 56 (72.7) | 10.0 (6.0,16.6) | 3.5% |
| A lot vs not a lot (none/a little) | 128 (3.4) | 155 (9.5) | 3.0 (2.3,3.8) | 33.0% | 29 (37.7) | 17.2 (10.5,28.4) | 8.8% |
| Coping with work's physical demands (vs easily): | |||||||
| With some/great difficulty | 848 (22.9) | 691 (42.0) | 2.4 (2.2,2.8) | 25.5% | 61 (81.3) | 14.8 (8.2,26.6) | 3.6% |
| Coping with work's mental demands (vs easily): | |||||||
| With some/great difficulty | 1029 (27.9) | 640 (38.9) | 1.7 (1.5,1.9) | 14.8% | 47 (62.7) | 4.5 (2.8,7.3) | 2.1% |
| Expecting to be able to cope in 2 years’ time (vs yes): | |||||||
| No/not sure | 717 (19.4) | 566 (34.6) | 2.1 (1.9,2.4) | 22.3% | 59 (78.7) | 14.5 (8.2,25.4) | 4.1% |
| Lying awake at night worrying about work (vs sometimes/rarely/never): | |||||||
| Often | 375 (10.1) | 300 (18.2) | 2.0 (1.7,2.3) | 20.8% | 28 (36.8) | 1.2 (1.0,1.4) | 3.2% |
| Job security (vs secure/very secure): | |||||||
| Insecure/very insecure | 671 (18.2) | 341 (20.8) | 5.1 (3.2,8.3) | 5.6% | 29 (38.7) | 3.0 (1.9,4.8) | 1.9% |
All estimates are adjusted for age and gender.
PAF, population attributable fraction.