How Does Job Insecurity and Workplace Activity Limitations Relate to Rheumatic Disease Symptom Trajectories in Young Adulthood? A Longitudinal Study
Authors' conclusion
Workplace activity limitations and job insecurity represent working conditions that are associated with the health of young adults with rheumatic disease and should be examined as potential targets for intervention.
Study context
- Population
- Young adults with rheumatic diseasemean age 29 ± 4.5 years
- Participants
- 124 adults
- Exposure
- Workplace activity limitations and job insecurity vs symptom trajectory group membership
- Outcome
- Membership in pain, fatigue and disease activity trajectory groups
- Follow-up
- 27 months
Methodological detailslongitudinal, three online surveys over 27 months, group-based discrete mixture models, robust Poisson regression
- Longitudinal
- Three online surveys over 27 months
- Group-based discrete mixture models
- Robust Poisson regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Association with high persistent symptom trajectory group
- Greater workplace activity limitations, high persistent severe pain: RR
- 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) (95% CI)
- Greater workplace activity limitations, high persistent fatigue: RR
- 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) (95% CI)
- Greater workplace activity limitations, high persistent disease activity: RR
- 1.02 (1.01, 1.03) (95% CI)
- Job insecurity, high persistent pain: RR
- 1.14 (1.04, 1.25) (95% CI)
- Job insecurity, high persistent disease activity: RR
- 1.11 (1.00, 1.22) (95% CI)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Baseline workplace activity limitations and job insecurity
- Workplace activity limitations, mean ± SD
- 10.35 ± 5.8
- Job insecurity
- 36%
Original publication
How Does Job Insecurity and Workplace Activity Limitations Relate to Rheumatic Disease Symptom Trajectories in Young Adulthood? A Longitudinal Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). Published 14 September 2022. doi:10.
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