Body Mass Index As a Predictor of Firefighter Injury and Workers' Compensation Claims

Overview

Journal J Occup Environ Med

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2012 May 10

PMID 22569476

Citations 19

Authors

Kerry S Kuehl

Yasemin Kisbu-Sakarya

Diane L Elliot

Esther L Moe

Carol A Defrancesco

David P MacKinnon

Ginger Lockhart

Linn Goldberg

Hannah E Kuehl

Affiliations

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Abstract

Objective: To determine the relationship between lifestyle variables including body mass index and filing a workers' compensation claim due to firefighter injury.

Methods: A cross-sectional evaluation of firefighter injury related to workers" compensation claims occurring 5 years after the original Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Models' Effects study intervention.

Results: A logistic regression analysis for variables predicting filing a workers' compensation claim due to an injury was performed with a total of 433 participants. The odds of filing a compensation claim were almost 3 times higher for firefighters with a body mass index of more than 30 kg/m than firefighters with a normal body mass index (odds ratio, 2.89; P < 0.05).

Conclusions: This study addresses a high-priority area of reducing firefighter injuries and workers' compensation claims. Maintaining a healthy body weight is important to reduce injury and workers' compensation claims among firefighters.

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