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Table 4 Logistic regression on the need of OHP for communication with treating physician

From: Sick-listed employees with severe medically unexplained physical symptoms: burden or routine for the occupational health physician? A cross sectional study

 

B

SE

Wald

p-value.

OR (95%CI)

Comorbidity: depressive disorder

0.78

0.94

0.69

0.407

2.18 (0.35-13.67)

Comorbidity: anxiety or panic disorder

0.61

0.90

0.45

0.500

1.83 (0.32-10.64)

Distress (4DSQ)

-0.85

0.93

0.84

0.359

0.43 (0.07-2.63)

PHQ +

2.22

0.83

7.22

0.007

9.20 (1.82-46.46) **

Gender (female) employee

0.49

0.72

0.47

0.493

1.64 (0.40-6.72)

Age employee

0.09

0.04

4.79

0.029

1.09 (1.01-1.18) *

Emotional exhaustion OHP (UBOS-C)

0.33

0.29

1.22

0.269

1.39 (0.78-2.47)

Engagement OHP (UWES)

0.73

0.47

2.43

0.119

2.07 (0.83-5.17)

Somatic attribution OHP

0.76

0.81

0.90

0.343

2.15 (0.44-10.41)

Somatoform attribution OHP

2.17

0.77

7.92

0.005

8.80 (1.94-39.98) **

Mental attribution OHP

0.11

1.03

0.01

0.915

1.12 (0.15-8.44)

Duration sickness absence (per 10 days)

-0.01

0.02

0.52

0.469

0.99 (0.95-1.02)

Physical functioning (SF36)

0.04

0.02

2.87

0.090

1.04 (0.99-1.08)

Mental functioning (SF36)

-0.02

0.02

0.64

0.423

0.98 (0.94-1.03)

  1. The table shows the odd ratio's (Ors) and their 95% confidence interval (CI) as well as the Wald statistics calculates as (B/SE)2 in which estimate B represents the effect of the predictor on the log odds of the outcome after adjusting for all other covariates in the model and standard error (SE) the variability of this effect
  2. * p ≤ 0.05
  3. ** p ≤ 0.01