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Factors associated with a higher prevalence of work disability among asthmatic patients
Francisco Javier Gonzalez Barcala1, Ramon D La Fuente-Cid, Rosa Alvarez-Gil
1Pneumology Department, Hospital Clínico, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
Objective:
To study asthma-related absenteeism in the asthmatic population in Spain and to identify some risk factors for absenteeism.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study was performed on patients who had been diagnosed with asthma in the primary care setting at least 1 year before the start of this study. A questionnaire was designed that included socio-demographic and clinical variables. The time absent from work in the previous year was self-reported by the patients.
Results:
More than 25% of the asthmatic population in Spain took sick leave during the previous year. Visits to a general practitioner or to the emergency department are the factors associated with the greatest risk of absenteeism.
Conclusions:
Absenteeism is common within the asthmatic population in Spain. The authors of this study believe that some of the determining factors could be modified by the health-care system.
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