Mental and physical health‐related functioning mediates between psychological job demands and sickness absence among nurses

Abstract

Both mental and physical health-related functioning mediated between psychological job demands and sickness absence. Nurse managers should pay attention to health-related functioning, because poor health-related functioning may predict sickness absence, especially in newly licensed nurses.

Antecedents and associations of sickness presenteeism and sickness absenteeism in nurses: A systematic review

“…Studies that did not fulfil the inclusion criteria based on titles and abstracts were excluded, and the remaining 34 articles were retrieved in full text for evaluation of eligibility. Twelve studies (Bourbonnais & Mondor, ; Chan, ; Demerouti, Le Blanc, Bakker, Schaufeli, & Hox, ; Jensen, Karpatschof, Labriola, & Albertsen, ; Josephson, Lindberg, Voss, Alfredsson, & Vingård, ; Kjekshus, Bernstrøm, Dahl, & Lorentzen, ; Lucey, ; Rasmussen et al, ; Rauhala et al, ; Roelen, van Rhenan, et al, ; Roelen, Bültmann, et al, ; Van Buynder et al, ) were selected for quality assessment and data synthesis (Figure ) (see Table S2 of excluded studies in the last step).…”

“…The studies were published between 2001 and 2015 and performed in Canada (Bourbonnais & Mondor, ; Van Buynder et al, ), The Netherlands (Demerouti et al, ; Roelen, van Rhenan, et al, ; Roelen, Bültmann, et al, ), Norway (Kjekshus et al, ), Denmark (Jensen et al, ; Rasmussen et al, ), Sweden (Josephson et al, ), the United Kingdom (Lucey, ), Hong Kong (Chan, ), and Finland (Rauhala et al, ). Five cohort studies were prospective by design (Bourbonnais & Mondor, ; Jensen et al, ; Josephson et al, ; Rasmussen et al, ; Roelen, Bültmann, et al, ), 6 were retrospective (Chan, ; Demerouti et al, ; Kjekshus et al, ; Lucey, ; Rauhala et al, ; Van Buynder et al, ), and one study (Roelen, van Rhenan, et al, ) performed a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal survey (Roelen, Bültmann, et al, ). Primary studies had a variable follow‐up period, but most studies had a follow‐up period of approximately 1 year (Bourbonnais & Mondor, ; Chan, ; Demerouti et al, ; Rasmussen et al, ; Rauhala et al, ; Roelen, van Rhenan, et al, ; Roelen, Bültmann, et al, ; Van Buynder et al, ).…”

Health, psychosocial and workplace characteristics may identify nurses and midwives at risk of high absenteeism

“…However, they overlook several relevant studies from Europe that have particularly focused on this topic 3 4. Sickness absence is an economic problem for the organisation; for the individual, long-term sickness absence can result in several negative outcomes such as exclusion from work, social isolation and poverty 4.…”

“…Still, healthcare administrators should pay attention to nurses' mental and physical health. Social support and guidance as well as other factors (such as physical activity) have been shown to be important in prevention of sickness absence 3. More research is therefore required into how to identify and stratify risk of absence, and how to reduce incidence.…”

Absenteeism due to mental problems among employees in nursing

“…Long-term absence can cause many negative consequences, such as exclusion from the workplace and, consequently, social isolation in poverty, therefore recognizing the risk factors for predicting absence from work is very important (Roelen et al, 2015;Roelen et al, 2013).…”