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| Karl Bang ChristensenSummaryAffiliation: National Institute of Occupational Health Country: Denmark Publications
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From Rasch scores to regressionKarl Bang Christensen
National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark, Lerso Parkalle 105, Copenhagen 2100 O, Denmark
J Appl Meas 7:184-91. 2006..This paper compares two approaches to group comparison: linear regression models using estimated person locations as outcome variables and latent regression models based on the distribution of the score...- Fitting polytomous Rasch models in SASKarl Bang Christensen
National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark, Lerso Parkalle 105, Copenhagen 2100 O, Denmark
J Appl Meas 7:407-17. 2006..The use of the procedures for extensions of the Rasch model is also discussed. The accuracy of the methods are evaluated using a simulation study... - Workplace levels of psychosocial factors as prospective predictors of registered sickness absenceKarl Bang Christensen
National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Occup Environ Med 47:933-40. 2005..We sought to investigate whether workplace levels of psychosocial work environment factors predict individual sickness absence... 
The fraction of long-term sickness absence attributable to work environmental factors: prospective results from the Danish Work Environment Cohort StudyKarl Bang Christensen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
Occup Environ Med 64:487-9. 2007..To examine the fraction of long-term sickness absence periods attributable to physical and psychosocial work environmental risk factors...
Explaining the social gradient in long-term sickness absence: a prospective study of Danish employeesKarl Bang Christensen
National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 62:181-3. 2008..To identify differences in risk of sickness absence between socioeconomic groups, and to examine to what extent these differences can be explained by health behaviour and work environment factors...- Physical work environment risk factors for long term sickness absence: prospective findings among a cohort of 5357 employees in DenmarkThomas Lund
National Institute of Occupational Health, Lerso Parkalle 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
BMJ 332:449-52. 2006..To examine the effects of physical work environment on long term sickness absence and to investigate interaction between physical and psychosocial risk factors... - Psychosocial work environment exposures as risk factors for long-term sickness absence among Danish employees: results from DWECS/DREAMThomas Lund
National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Occup Environ Med 47:1141-7. 2005..This study examines effects of psychosocial risk factors on long-term sickness absence, and investigates possible interactions between psychosocial and physical work environment risk factors... - Depressive symptoms and the risk of long-term sickness absence: a prospective study among 4747 employees in DenmarkUte Bültmann
National Institute of Occupational Health, Lersø Parkallé 105, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:875-80. 2006..The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of depressive symptoms on long-term sickness absence in a representative sample of the Danish workforce... - Impact of burnout and psychosocial work characteristics on future long-term sickness absence. Prospective results of the Danish PUMA Study among human service workersMarianne Borritz
Department of Occupational Medicine, Bispebjerg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Occup Environ Med 52:964-70. 2010..The objective of this study was to examine if burnout and psychosocial factors predicted long-term sickness absence (>2 weeks) at work unit level... - Positive work-related states and long-term sickness absence: a study of register-based outcomesThomas Clausen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
Scand J Public Health 38:51-8. 2010..To investigate the association between positive work-related states and long-term sickness absence (LTSA). The positive states that were investigated were commitment to the work-place (CW) and experience of meaning of work (MW)... - Return to work among employees with long-term sickness absence in eldercare: a prospective analysis of register-based outcomesThomas Clausen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
Int J Rehabil Res 34:249-54. 2011..The results imply that experience of meaning at work must be considered an important work-life resource, as it enhances the capacity of sickness-absent employees to RTW after extended sickness-absence periods... - Self-reported noise exposure as a risk factor for long-term sickness absenceThomas Clausen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Noise Health 11:93-7. 2009..Along with evidence from previous studies these results provide further support for an association between occupational noise exposure and sickness absence... - Analyzing sickness absence with statistical models for survival dataKarl Bang Christensen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, 2100, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Scand J Work Environ Health 33:233-9. 2007..Since sickness absence data deal with events occurring over time, the use of statistical models for survival data has been reviewed, and the use of frailty models has been proposed for the analysis of such data... - Differences in sickness absence in Sweden and Denmark: the cross national HAKNAK studyThomas Lund
The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eur J Public Health 19:343-9. 2009.... - Does evening work predict sickness absence among female carers of the elderly?Finn Tuchsen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Scand J Work Environ Health 34:483-6. 2008..The aim of the present study was to predict the risk ratio of sickness absence lasting > or = 2 weeks due to shift work among Danish workers caring for the elderly during the evening and at night... - Using administrative sickness absence data as a marker of future disability pension: the prospective DREAM study of Danish private sector employeesThomas Lund
Mr T Lund, National Research Center for the Working Environment, Lerso Parkalle 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Occup Environ Med 65:28-31. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine duration of sickness absence as a risk marker for future disability pension among all private sector employees in Denmark 1998-2004... - Clinical and non-clinical depressive symptoms and risk of long-term sickness absence among female employees in the Danish eldercare sectorPernille U Hjarsbech
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
J Affect Disord 129:87-93. 2011..The aim of this study was to investigate how non-clinical and clinical depressive symptoms are prospectively associated to subsequent LTSA... - Do managers experience more stress than employees? Results from the Intervention Project on Absence and Well-being (IPAW) study among Danish managers and their employeesJanne Skakon
Institute of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Work 38:103-9. 2011..To examine whether managers' perceived stress and work strain is higher than perceived stress and work strain among employees... - Psychosocial work characteristics as predictors for burnout: findings from 3-year follow up of the PUMA StudyMarianne Borritz
National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
J Occup Environ Med 47:1015-25. 2005..The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of psychosocial work characteristics on burnout... - Effect of physical exercise interventions on musculoskeletal pain in all body regions among office workers: a one-year randomized controlled trialLars L Andersen
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Man Ther 15:100-4. 2010..In conclusion, both specific resistance training and all-round physical exercise for office workers caused better effects than a reference intervention in relieving musculoskeletal pain symptoms in exposed regions of the upper body... - Psychosocial work environment factors and weight change: a prospective study among Danish health care workersHelle Gram Quist
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersoe Parkalle 105, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
BMC Public Health 13:43. 2013..This study aims to investigate psychosocial factors outside the classical work stress models as potential predictors of change in body mass index (BMI) in a population of health care workers... - Diagnostic delay experienced among gynecological cancer patients: a nationwide survey in DenmarkKirstine M Robinson
Department of Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 88:685-92. 2009..To examine diagnostic delay among gynecological cancer patients... - Long-term consequences of postoperative cognitive dysfunctionJacob Steinmetz
Department of Anesthesia, Center of Head and Orthopedics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Anesthesiology 110:548-55. 2009..Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is common in elderly patients after noncardiac surgery, but the consequences are unknown. The authors' aim was to determine the effects of POCD on long-term prognosis...