142 Chapter 7 Table 1. Characteristics of the applicants, and differences between applicants working and not working at the time of work disability benefit assessment (baseline) Total group (n = 8300 n (%) Working at baseline (n = 2649) n (%) Not working at baseline (n = 5651) n (%) p-value Work life stage 0.013 Early work life stage (up to 35 years) 1050 (12.7%) 304 (11.5%) 746 (13.2%) Mid work life stage (35 to 50 years) 2753 (33.2%) 853 (32.2%) 1900 (33.6%) Late work life stage (from 50 years) 4497 (54.2%) 1492 (56.3%) 3005 (53.2%) Female gender 3800 (45.8%) 1357 (51.2%) 2443 (43.2%) <.001 Education level <.001 Low 3381 (40.7%) 792 (29.9%) 2589 (45.8%) Middle 3023 (36.4%) 990 (37.4%) 2033 (36.0%) High 1896 (22.8%) 867 (32.7%) 1029 (18.3%) Contract hours at date of sick leave (>32h per week) 5812 (70.0%) 1797 (67.8%) 4015 (71.0%) 0.002 Inability to work fulltime 3723 (44.9%) 1476 (55.7%) 2247 (39.8%) <.001 Having paid employment at one year followup 2872 (34.6%) 2204 (83.2%) 668 (11.8%) 0.000 ICD10 Disease groups Neoplasms 566 (6.8%) 304 (11.5%) 262 (4.6%) <.001 Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs 108 (1.3%) 44 (1.7%) 64 (1.1%) Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disorders 127 (1.5%) 37 (1.4%) 90 (1.6%) Mental and behavioural disorders 3062 (36.9%) 797 (30.1%) 2265 (40.1%) Diseases of the nervous system 329 (4.0%) 158 (6.0%) 171 (3.0%) Diseases of the eye and adnexa 61 (0.7%) 29 (1.1%) 32 (0.6%) Diseases of the ear and mastoid process 80 (1.0%) 25 (0.9%) 55 (1.0%) Diseases of the circulatory system 626 (7.5%) 267 (10.1%) 359 (6.4%) Diseases of the respiratory system 178 (2.1%) 56 (2.1%) 122 (2.6%) Diseases of the digestive system 153 (1.9%) 59 (2.2%) 94 (1.7%) Diseases of the musculoskeletal system 1940 (23.4%) 509 (19.2%) 1431 (25.3%) Diseases of the genitourinary system 94 (1.1%) 49 (1.8%) 45 (0.8%) Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings 382 (4.6%) 97 (3.7%) 285 (5.0%) Injury, poisoning and other consequences of external causes 474 (5.7%) 171 (6.5%) 303 (5.4%) All other diseases 120 (1.4%) 47 (1.8%) 73 (1.3%) Multimorbidity 4256 (51.3) 1219 (46.0%) 3037 (53.7%) <.001
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