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Volume 5, Issue 3 (Suppl) Occup Med Health Aff, an open access journal
ISSN:2329-6879 Occupational Health-2017
September 13-14, 2017
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September 13-14, 2017 | Dallas, USA
Occupational Health & Safety
6th International Conference and Exhibition on
Arandomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of participatory training for sick leave reduction
in China
Lin Hui
Shenzhen Preventon and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases, China
Occupational injuries and illness not only threaten worker’s health, but also cause a great deal of loss like sick leave in economy. In
this project, we first observed 31.7% workers reported sick leave with losing 3 workdays averagly. Then, we used Logistic Analysis
with Backward stepwise method to estimate odds ratios and 95% CI of factors associated with sick leave, and found the possibility
for taking sick leave increased in workers with being female, more working hours per week, longer service, higher tress, and younger
age. To evaluate the effectiveness of participatory training for sick leave reduction, we led a one-year Randomized Controlled Trial,
with 918 and 2,561 workers receiving participatory and didactic training, respectively. Participants were asked to report workdays
lost caused by sick leave during the previous 12 months before training and the next 12 months after training. We found that the
propotion of workers taking sick leave in the intervention group reduced from 34.5% to 25.2% (P<0.001), and the rate reductions in
the control group was not statistically significant. At one-year follow up, the workdays lost in intervention group and control group
didn’t reduced significantly. Finally, we developed a method to measure the cost-benefit ratios of the programs and found that the
participatory training was more effective in saving cost for sick leave reduction than the didactic training.
Biography
Lin Hui has received his Master’s degree from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He has published six papers in reputed
journals and has been serving as an Occupational Diseases Doctor for eight years.
Lin Hui, Occup Med Health Aff 2017, 5:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2329-6879-C1-034