Poor agreement found between self-report and a public registry on duration of sickness absence

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 212-218

  Grøvle, Lars ^a   Haugen, Anne J ^a   Keller, Anne ^b   Natvig, Bård ^c,d   Brox, Jens I ^e   Grotle, Margreth ^b,c  

^a Ostfold Hospital Trust   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c DIAKONHJEMMET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agreement; Sciatica; Self report; Sick leave; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; SELF REPORT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SCIATICA; SELF REPORT; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 84855350699     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Rice D, Hodgson TA, Kopstein AN. The economic costs of illness: a replication and update. Health Care Financ Rev 1985;7:61-80. (Pubitemid 17008319)
2. Dagenais S, Caro J, Haldeman S. A systematic review of low back pain cost of illness studies in the United States and internationally. Spine J 2008;8:8-20. (Pubitemid 350299273)
3. Hansson E, Hansson T. The cost-utility of lumbar disc herniation surgery. Eur Spine J 2007;16:329-37. (Pubitemid 46440172)
4. Kivimaki M, Head J, Ferrie JE, Shipley MJ, Vahtera J, Marmot MG. Sickness absence as a global measure of health: evidence from mortality in the Whitehall II prospective cohort study. BMJ 2003;327:364.
5. Whitaker SC. The management of sickness absence. Occup Environ Med 2001;58:420-4. (Pubitemid 32488099)
6. Goetzel RZ, Long SR, Ozminkowski RJ, Hawkins K, Wang S, Lynch W. Health, absence, disability, and presenteeism cost estimates of certain physical and mental health conditions affecting U.S. employers. J Occup Environ Med 2004;46:398-412. (Pubitemid 38469017)
7. Wynne-Jones G, Mallen CD, Main CJ, Dunn KM. Sickness certification in general practice: a comparison of electronic records with self-reported work absence. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2008;9:113-8.
8. Jones S, Casswell S, Zhang JF. The economic costs of alcohol-related absenteeism and reduced productivity among the working population of New Zealand. Addiction 1995;90:1455-61.
9. Bertera RL. The effects of behavioral risks on absenteeism and health-care costs in the workplace. J Occup Med 1991;33:1119-24.
10. Glise K, Hadzibajramovic E, Jonsdottir IH, Ahlborg G Jr. Self-reported exhaustion: a possible indicator of reduced work ability and increased risk of sickness absence among human service workers. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 2010;83:511-20.
11. Shimizu T, Horie S, Nagata S, Marui E. Relationship between self-reported low productivity and overtime working. Occup Med (Lond) 2004;54:52-4. (Pubitemid 38220095)
12. Demmelmaier I, Asenlof P, Lindberg P, Denison E. Biopsychosocial predictors of pain, disability, health care consumption, and sick leave in first-episode and long-term back pain: a longitudinal study in the general population. Int J Behav Med 2010;17:79-89.
13. Puolakka K, Ylinen J, Neva MH, Kautiainen H, Häkkinen A. Risk factors for back pain-related loss of working time after surgery for lumbar disc herniation: a 5-year follow-up study. Eur Spine J 2008;17:386-92.
14. Eriksson HG, von Celsing AS, Wahlstrom R, Janson L, Zander V, Wallman T. Sickness absence and self-reported health a population-based study of 43,600 individuals in central Sweden. BMC Public Health 2008;8:426.
15. Gimeno D, Benavides FG, Benach J, Amick BC. Distribution of sickness absence in the European Union countries. Occup Environ Med 2004;61:867-9. (Pubitemid 39336353)
16. Hensing G. Swedish council on technology assessment in health care (SBU). Chapter 4. Methodological aspects in sickness-absence research. Scand J Public Health Suppl. 2004;63:44-8.
17. Gaudine A, Gregory C. The accuracy of nurses' estimates of their absenteeism. J Nurs Manag 2010;18:599-605.
18. Severens JL, Mulder J, Laheij RJ, Verbeek AL. Precision and accuracy in measuring absence from work as a basis for calculating productivity costs in The Netherlands. Soc Sci Med 2000;51:243-9. (Pubitemid 30209963)
19. van Poppel MN, de Vet HC, Koes BW, Smid T, Bouter LM. Measuring sick leave: a comparison of self-reported data on sick leave and data from company records. Occup Med (Lond) 2002;52:485-90. (Pubitemid 36054435)
20. Burdorf A, Post W, Bruggeling T. Reliability of a questionnaire on sickness absence with specific attention to absence due to back pain and respiratory complaints. Occup Environ Med 1996;53:58-62. (Pubitemid 26019521)
21. Agius RM, Lloyd MH, Campbell S, Hutchison P, Seaton A, Soutar CA. Questionnaire for the identification of back pain for epidemiological purposes. Occup Environ Med 1994;51:756-60. (Pubitemid 24350452)
22. Mueller CW, Wakefield DS, Price JL, Curry JP. A note on the validity of self-reports of absenteeism. Human Relations 1987;40:117-23.
23. Laestadius JG, Ye J, Dimberg L. Can we trust the answers? reliability and validity of self-reported sick leave due to musculoskeletal symptoms. J Occup Environ Med 2008;50:611-3.
24. Revicki DA, Irwin D, Reblando J, Simon GE. The accuracy of self-reported disability days. Med Care 1994;32:401-4.
25. Ferrie JE, Kivimaki M, Head J, Shipley MJ, Vahtera J, Marmot MG. A comparison of self-reported sickness absence with absences recorded in employers' registers: evidence from the Whitehall II study. Occup Environ Med 2005;62:74-9. (Pubitemid 40175504)
26. Fredriksson K, Toomingas A, Torgen M, Thorbjornsson CB, Kilbom A. Validity and reliability of self-reported retrospectively collected data on sick leave related to musculoskeletal diseases. Scand J Work Environ Health 1998;24:425-31. (Pubitemid 28542834)
27. ICPC-2 international classification of primary care. 2nd ed. Prepared by the international classification committee of WONCA. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 1998.
28. Cicchetti DV, Feinstein AR. High agreement but low kappa: II. Resolving the paradoxes. J Clin Epidemiol 1990;43:551-8. (Pubitemid 20178544)
29. Fleiss JL. Measuring agreement between two judges on the presence or absence of a trait. Biometrics 1975;31:651-9.
30. Thompson WD, Walter SD. A reappraisal of the kappa coefficient. J Clin Epidemiol 1988;41:949-58. (Pubitemid 19002062)
31. Altman DG. Practical statistics for medical research. London: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 1991.
32. Bland JM, Altman DG. Measuring agreement in method comparison studies. Stat Methods Med Res 1999;8:135-60. (Pubitemid 29425900)
33. Bradburn N, Rips L, Shevell S. Answering autobiographical questions: the impact of memory and inference on surveys. Science 1987;236:157-61. (Pubitemid 17061032)
34. Rubin DC, Wenzel AE. One hundred years of forgetting: a quantitative description of retention. Psychol Rev 1996;103:734-60.
35. Sudman S, Bradburn NM. Effects of time and memory factors on response in surveys. J Amer Statistical Assoc 1973;68:805-15.
36. Kraemer HC, Periyakoil VS, Noda A. Kappa coefficients in medical research. Stat Med 2002;21:2109-29. (Pubitemid 34752626)
37. Kottner J, Audigé L, Brorson S, Donner A, Gajewski BJ, Hróbjartsson A, et al. Guidelines for reporting reliability and agreement studies (GRRAS) were proposed. J Clin Epidemiol 2011;64:96-106.
38. Prohaska V, Brown NR, Belli RF. Forward telescoping: the question matters. Memory 1998;6:455-65. (Pubitemid 128475543)
39. Voss M, Stark S, Alfredsson L, Vingard E, Josephson M. Comparisons of self-reported and register data on sickness absence among public employees in Sweden. Occup Environ Med 2008;65:61-7.
40. Johns G. How often were you absent? A review of the use of self-reported absence data. J Appl Psychol 1994;79:574-91.
41. Alexanderson K, Norlund A. Swedish council on technology assessment in health care (SBU). Chapter 1. Scand J Public Health Suppl. 2004;63:12-30.
42. Statistics Norway. Available at: http://www.ssb.no/aku/arkiv/tab-2007-02- 07-03.htm. (Accessed April 10, 2011).
43. Weinstein JN, Lurie JD, Tosteson TD, Skinner JS, Hanscom B, Tosteson AN, et al. Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the spine patient outcomes research trial (SPORT) observational cohort. JAMA 2006;296:2451-9. (Pubitemid 44791201)
44. Atlas SJ, Keller RB, Chang Y, Deyo RA, Singer DE. Surgical and nonsurgical management of sciatica secondary to a lumbar disc herniation: five-year outcomes from the maine lumbar spine study. Spine 2001;26:1179-87. (Pubitemid 32429322)
45. Tellnes G. Sickness certification in general practice: a review. Fam Pract 1989;6:58-65. (Pubitemid 19106591)
46. Kausto J, Miranda H, Martimo KP, Viikari-Juntura E. Partial sick leaveereview of its use, effects and feasibility in the Nordic countries. Scand J Work Environ Health 2008;34:239-49.
47. Coughlin SS. Recall bias in epidemiologic studies. J Clin Epidemiol 1990;43:87-91. (Pubitemid 20036970)