Screening questionnaire Balansmeter proved successful in predicting future long-term sickness absence in office workers

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Kant, IJmert ^a   Jansen, Nicole W H ^a   van Amelsvoort, Ludovic G P M ^a   Swaen, Gerard M H ^a   van Leusden, Rudy ^b   Berkouwer, Ate ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ABN AMRO Corporate Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employees; Questionnaire; Screening; Sickness absence; Validation; Work

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALANSMETER QUESTIONNAIRE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 60549097697     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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