• Salla Toppinen-Tanner, Petri Böckerman, Pertti Mutanen, Kari-Pekka Martimo, and Jukka Vuori.
• Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki (Dr Toppinen-Tanner, Mr Mutanen, Drs Martimo, Vuori), Turku School of Economics, Turku (Dr Böckerman), Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland (Dr Böckerman), IZA, Bonn, Germany (Dr Böckerman), and Mutual Pension Insurance Elo, Espoo, Finland (Dr Martimo).
• J. Occup. Environ. Med. 2016 Dec 22.

AbstractThis study examined whether a group intervention focusing on building up preparedness for career management can prevent future sickness absence.Register-based data on the number of sickness absence days and sickness absence episodes were examined as outcomes of the intervention among 684 employees in 17 organizations in a randomized controlled trial. Sickness absence data were collected covering a period from 1 year before (baseline) to approximately 2 years after the intervention (follow-up). The data were analyzed using zero-inflated negative binomial models.After controlling for baseline absence, age, gender, and organization, the intervention was effective in decreasing the number of longer sickness absences (lasting longer than > 2 weeks), but no other significant effects were found.These findings point out that it is feasible to use a career management intervention to prevent future sickness absence in work organizations.This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.

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