Mental and physical health-related functioning mediates between psychological job demands and sickness absence among nurses

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1780-1792

  Roelen, Corné ^a   van Rhenen, Willem ^a   Schaufeli, Wilmar ^c   van der Klink, Jac ^b   Magerøy, Nils ^d   Moen, Bente ^e   Bjorvatn, Bjørn ^e   Pallesen, Ståle ^e  

^a ArboNed   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Uni Research   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Mediation analysis; Mental health; Nurses; Nursing; Physical health; SF 12; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL LEAVE; NURSING STAFF; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; NURSING STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 84904693672     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jan.12335     Document Type: Article

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