Summary of Findings
neck pain, CHF
CHF
About 80% of our sample of Swiss office workers reported mild to moderate neck pain (average NRS 3.0/10) at baseline and neck pain-related work productivity loss was 12% of working time at baseline (combination of absenteeism and presenteeism). We found an effect of our multi-component intervention on neck pain-related work productivity by −2.8 percentage points and weekly saved costs of CHF 27.40 per participant. In addition, a negative effect for the covariates of male gender, older age, and tertiary education level on the loss of work productivity was found. Increased work stress conditions (JSI), not being married, and not having leadership responsibilities were positively associated with neck pain-related work productivity loss. Our hypothesis that the intervention could reduce the economic burden of neck pain in office workers was confirmed by these findings.