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Work-family conflicts and sickness absence due to mental disorders among female municipal employees – a register-linked study comparing health and social care employees to employees in other sectors
Originally published 2024-10-14 · Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health
Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health · DOI 10.5271/sjweh.4191 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about early work-family support evaluated with longer-term workforce outcomes; the original evidence concerns 2557 female Helsinki municipal employees followed for up to five years.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
Could work-family strain become visible in longer-term absence records?
This reading brings work-family conflict and later long-term sickness absence due to mental disorders into the kindness pathway. The prospective register-linked municipal employee study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2557 female Helsinki municipal employees followed for up to five years
Age / stage: Women aged 19-39
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess directional conflict and register-based sickness absence?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about differences across health-social care, education and other sectors?
- What would need to be checked before adopting early work-family support evaluated with longer-term workforce outcomes?
Keep the limits in view
Prospective associations still permit confounding; register-based absence reflects a specific benefit and employment context and is not a measure of every employee's mental health.
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Jaakko Harkko; Aino Salonsalmi; Noora A Heinonen; Tea Lallukka; Anne Kouvonen (2024). Work-family conflicts and sickness absence due to mental disorders among female municipal employees – a register-linked study comparing health and social care employees to employees in other sectors Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health. https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.4191
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