Prevalence of purchased prescribed anxiolytics among people without a previous sickness absence.
Adjusted for sociodemographic factors and with 95% CI.A similar pattern was observed when studying purchases of sedatives among people with and without previous sickness absence, see Stayers without previous sickness absence increased their purchases of sedatives more than the unexposed from one year before downsizing and onwards (+4 vs -1) and in particular the peri-downsizing phase. Changers increased their prevalence more than the unexposed post downsizing.