title: [Sick-leave during pregnancy--focusing on textile workers].
abstract: In order to illustrate the conditions involved in sick-leave during pregnancy, 593 consecutive parturient women received a questionnaire on the day after delivery. 48% of the pregnant women were certified as sick and 16% were admitted to hospital during pregnancy. The most common reasons for sick-leave were threatening abortion (19%), haemorrhage (18%) and threatening premature delivery (15%). The duration of sick-leave averaged 15 weeks as compared with 7.3 weeks in Denmark as a whole. In the subgroup of textile workers, 71% considered that the work was physically stressing and 70% were certified sick. Compared with all of the other occupationally active women, textile workers were more frequently certified sick, considered that their work was more physically stressing and had more frequently required sick-leave but were more rarely admitted to hospital. Similarly, textile workers had a greater risk for sick-leave on account of threatening abortion, pelvic loosening or pain in the locomotor system.
authors.affiliation: Herning Centralsygehus, Gynaekologisk/obstetrisk afdeling.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kierkegaard
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kristiansen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013783:Textile Industry
vernacular_title: Sygemelding i graviditeten--med fokus på tekstilarbejdere.