Differences in sickness absence between self-employed and employed doctors: a cross-sectional study on national sample of Norwegian doctors in 2010

Table 2 Logistic regression model on employment status as response variable among Norwegian doctors in 2010 (method: enter; n = 768)

	Employment status of Norwegian doctors
	(1 = employed; 0 = self-employed)
	OR	95% CI	P
Age in years	0.98	0.96-0.99	0.005
Male (vs. female)	0.76	0.53-1.08	0.120
Self-rated health as very good or good (vs. average/poor)	2.09	1.18-3.40	0.010
>40 working hours/week (vs. ≤40 hours)	1.40	0.97-2.00	0.069
Professional autonomy (score 1–7)	0.60	0.51-0.70	0.0001
High levels of psychosocial work stress (vs. low levels)	1.61	1.01-2.56	0.045
Sickness absence days/12 months
Non (reference)	1
1-3	3.78	2.14-6.67	0.0001
4-99	3.67	2.13-6.30	0.0001
100 or more	1.24	0.35-4.42	0.744

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