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Chelsea E Brehmer1, Hannah Fry1, Malachy Bishop1
1Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Background:
Physical and psychosocial contexts of employment and the quality of the work environments impact both physical and mental health, particularly among individuals with disabilities.
Objective:
Given the relationship between health and employment and the need to understand the relationship between quality of work and COVID-19 acquisition risk, this project focused on studying the impacts of job quality following the emergence of the COVID-19 virus.
Method:
GLM logistic regression to explore odds ratios of employment quality factors on our dependent variable, contracting COVID.
Results:
The overall model was significant, indicating selection of predictor and control variables have an impact on COVID risk (χ2(11)=59.53, p<.001, N=2325). Age and race were significant individual predictors. Finally, among the employment quality variables, only one comparison was significant. Individuals with some but not all markers of employment quality, compared to individuals who were unemployed, were 1.3 times more likely to contract COVID (OR=1.3, p=0.03).
Conclusion:
Employment, in light of COVID-19, is full of complexity and nuances. Even more so is the relationship between COVID-19, health, and employment for PWDs. The significant findings from the current study have important implications for the incorporation of employment, and specifically quality employment, as a predictor of physical health among PWDs.
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