Occupational burnout and chronic work disability: An eight-year cohort study on pensioning among Finnish forest industry workers

The objective was to explore if burnout, a syndrome from chronic work stress, predicts work disability during eight years among industrial employees. We investigated whether burnout would predict disability in initially healthy employees and all subgroups by the most common causes for disability.Of the participants in a company-wide survey (n=9705, 63%) performed in 1996, 8371 employees were identified and 7810 provided full information. The...