• María Villaplana García, Concepción Sáez Navarro, Mariano Meseguer de Pedro, and Mariano García-Izquierdo.
• Departamento de Psiquiatría y Psicología Social, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, España. Electronic address: mvilla@um.es.
• Aten Primaria. 2015 Feb 1; 47 (2): 909890-8.

ObjectivesThis study examines the relationship, and relevance of the effect between the duration of the cases of temporary sick leave, as an indicator of absenteeism, and several characteristics (sociodemographic, labor, organizational and the environment) of workers covered by the Social Security System in Spain.MethodA retrospective analysis was conducted on 598,988 processes, between 15 and 365days. The relationships between length of absence, and several characteristics such as demographic, sociodemographic, occupational, organizational and environment characteristics were determined (using P values). The mean duration for each of the features is described, and the size effect is calculated to estimate the importance of the relationships found.ResultsThere were significant relationships between the duration of temporary sick leave and several demographic characteristics (gender, age, nationality and length of service), occupational (wages, type of contract), organizational (economic sector, activity and size company), the environmental (region, state) characteristics. The age also showed a significant size effect (rxy=.134), especially after age 44.ConclusionsOnly age had a significance effect on the duration of work absence, although there was also a relationship with the rest of the demographic, occupational and work environment characteristics. There was also evidence of a cross-effects between the variables, which could cause errors in interpreting the results.Copyright © 2013 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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