Disturbed sleep and fatigue as predictors of return from long-term sickness absence

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-214

  Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a,b   Kecklund, Göran ^a   Selén, Jan ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STATISTICS SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disease; Longitudinal; Prospective

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952073976     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.48.209     Document Type: Article

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