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Table 5 Work absence and early retirement (sub-sample including working-age participants only)

From: Are health risk attitude and general risk attitude associated with healthcare utilization, costs and working ability? Results from the German KORA FF4 cohort study

Dependent variable

 

G-WTTR

H-WTTR

Proportion yes / Mean frequency

exp(estimate) [95% CI]

exp(estimate) [95% CI]

Probability of using medical services (logistic regression)

 Work absence a

53.6%

0.88* [0.77–0.99]

0.88* [0.78–1.00]

 Early retirement b

8.1%

0.78 [0.44–1.63]

0.74 [0.42–1.30]

Frequencies of utilization c (negative-binomial regression)

 Work absence days

14.7 (27.1)

0.80** [0.73–0.88]

0.85** [0.77–0.94]

  1. **significant at the 1% level/ * significant at the 5% level
  2. G-WTTR: Willingness to take risk in general; H-WTTR: Willingness to take risk regarding health
  3. an = 1079: work absence only for full-time and regular part-time employees
  4. bn = 138: early retirement only for pensioners with age ≤ 65 years
  5. cn = 578