The correlation between clinical and demographic parameters and sickness absences in diabetic employees

Introduction
Diabetes is one of chronic disease most significant prevalence in young people and adults, Diabetes can hit several areas related to employment: absences from work due to illness or complications, and damage to fit work. Our Aim was to examine the extent of diabetes absences from work and impact of different variables, clinical and vocational on absentism.

Methods
This research is a cross-sectional study, whose population includes 200 diabetic patients, men and women in working ages and 230 healthy workers in control group respectively.

Results
We found that among patients with diabetes were more days of absence than among non-diabetics (8.46 versus 2.72, respectively). Differences have been found throughout the all starred age and education, higher education employees were absent less (2.5 versus 7.1 respectively). Moreover, positive correlation was found between workload and absence in both groups, workload measured in Stamina, than load was higher than days of absence were more (P = 0.04, Pearson Correlation = 0.098). Diabetic patients in the public sector were absent more than in private sector (9 versus 7.2 respectively). For clinical variables we found that the employees those suffering from diabetic complications were absences more days (15.5 versus 5.7 respectively). No significant difference was found between levels of HbA1C, patients' age, disease duration or type of treatment.

Discussion
The main variables affecting the absences from work were not medical, these variables are education, workload and type of employer, all these also characteristic of the general population. Results of this study reinforce the opinion that you can combine a well balanced diabetes employers in most types of occupations without fear of more absence from work no relation of duration of illness or patient age.