Sickness Presence among Disabled Workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana / Prezentizem Med Invalidi V Univerzitetenem Kliničnem Centru Ljubljana

Škerjanc, Alenka; Fikfak, Metoda Dodič

doi:10.2478/sjph-2014-0030

Slovenian Journal of Public Health

2014

DOI: 10.2478/sjph-2014-0030

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Sickness Presence among Disabled Workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana / Prezentizem Med Invalidi V Univerzitetenem Kliničnem Centru Ljubljana

Alenka Škerjanc

Metoda Dodič Fikfak

Abstract: ObjectivesThe aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of disabled health care professionals.MethodsData were gathered from all disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and who were employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questio… Show more

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“…In fact, some 60 % of employees with low WAI scores aged between 45 and 57 received a disability pension within 11 years of testing (7). In Slovenia, this instrument has been translated for non-commercial use by the University Rehabilitation Institute (8) and, until now, mostly used in companies with disabled employees (9)(10)(11)(12)(13).…”

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Work ability index in Slovenian hospital nurses aged over fifty years

Žmauc

Železnik

Težak

2019

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Nurses with reduced work ability are highly susceptible to the deleterious effects of their working environments, and their rates of sick leave, disability, and early retirement are higher than average. The aim of this study was to evaluate work ability in 433 Slovenian hospital nurses aged over fifty years providing secondary care in thirteen hospitals across Slovenia. To do that we used a standardised instrument known as work ability index (WAI). Mean WAI was 36.98±6.46 and median 38. WAI was not associated with age (Spearman’s ρ=-0.034, p=0.475). Total WAI score strongly correlated with the 1st item of the WAI questionnaire “current work ability” (ρ=0.726, p<0.001). Higher WAI scores were also associated with academic education, full-time employment, and working in a single (morning) or three shifts. Our WAI findings in nurses over fifty call for systemic changes in the nursing environment to maintain good work ability among nurses until the retirement age and beyond.

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Work ability index in Slovenian hospital nurses aged over fifty years

Žmauc

Železnik

Težak

2019

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Going to work ill: A meta-analysis of the correlates of presenteeism and a dual-path model.

Miraglia

Johns²

2016

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Interest in presenteeism, attending work while ill, has flourished in light of its consequences for individual well-being and organizational productivity. Our goal was to identify its most significant causes and correlates by quantitatively summarizing the extant research. Additionally, we built an empirical model of some key correlates and compared the etiology of presenteeism versus absenteeism. We used meta-analysis (in total, K=109 samples, N=175,965) to investigate the correlates of presenteeism and meta-analytic structural equation modeling to test the empirical model. Salient correlates of working while ill included general ill health, constraints on absenteeism (e.g., strict absence policies, job insecurity), elevated job demands and felt stress, lack of job and personal resources (e.g., low support and low optimism), negative relational experiences (e.g., perceived discrimination), and positive attitudes (satisfaction, engagement, commitment). Moreover, our dual process model clarified how job demands and job and personal resources elicit presenteeism via both health impairment and motivational paths, and they explained more variation in presenteeism than absenteeism. The study sheds light on the controversial act of presenteeism, uncovering both positive and negative underlying mechanisms.The greater variance explained in presenteeism as opposed to absenteeism underlines the opportunities for researchers to meaningfully investigate the behavior and for organizations to manage it.Keywords: presenteeism; absenteeism; meta-analysis; health; demands. The term presenteeism has been used in several ways in the literature over the years, and Johns (2010) reviewed nine distinct definitions of the concept (see also Wężyk & Merecz, 2013).However, recent scholarly treatment has converged on two main definitions. The first of these is attending work while ill (Aronsson, Gustafsson, & Dallner, 2000). The second definition, which dominates the occupational medicine literature, is productivity loss stemming from attending while ill (Turpin et al., 2004). Although affirming the importance of the latter phenomenon, Johns (2010Johns ( , 2012 questioned this definition for conflating cause with effect and pre-empting the study of the causes of going to work ill. In the meta-analyses to be reported here we restrict the purview to the causes and correlates of the act of presenteeism-going to work ill. Most research on productivity loss has concentrated on its association with various medical conditions. Perhaps the most interesting thing about presenteeism is that it represents a muchoccupied but only recently studied state between being absent (and ostensibly exhibiting no productivity) and fully productive work engagement. Presentees will vary in their productivity due to a host of personal and contextual circumstances, such as the exact nature of their health Presenteeism correlates: A meta-analysis 4 problems. Nonetheless, they are unlikely to be fully engaged and fully productive. Hence, the causes and corre...

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Explaining variations in the findings of presenteeism research: A meta-analytic investigation into the moderating effects of construct operationalizations and chronic health.

McGregor

Sharma

Magee

et al. 2018

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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The purpose of the present study is to theorize and test the moderating effects of two variables-the way presenteeism is operationalized and the presence of a preexisting chronic health condition-on the relationships between presenteeism and its antecedents (i.e., physical health, mental health, work factors, social factors, and personal factors). A meta-analysis of 116 studies (N = 301,402) investigated the impact of both moderator variables while controlling for the country of the sample and publication source. As expected, the magnitude of the relationships between presenteeism and its antecedents varied depending on the type of operationalization of presenteeism. Specifically, the average mean correlations reported in previous studies were larger when presenteeism was operationalized using both a behavior and an outcome (e.g., productivity loss stemming from attending work while ill) as compared with when presenteeism was operationalized as a behavior only (e.g., attending work while ill). Furthermore, we found that the associations between presenteeism and its antecedents were stronger for those workers with a preexisting chronic health condition (e.g., osteoarthritis), as compared with healthier workers. These findings have important implications for research and theory. In particular, they suggest that the way presenteeism is operationalized can artificially inflate the observed effect sizes between presenteeism and its antecedents. This is a significant contribution, as it may shape future measures of presenteeism. Theoretically, the findings are also important, as they provide a framework for understanding why some workers are more prone to presenteeism than others (e.g., because individuals with chronic health problems may be more resilient). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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Sickness Presence among Disabled Workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana / Prezentizem Med Invalidi V Univerzitetenem Kliničnem Centru Ljubljana

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Work ability index in Slovenian hospital nurses aged over fifty years

Work ability index in Slovenian hospital nurses aged over fifty years

Going to work ill: A meta-analysis of the correlates of presenteeism and a dual-path model.

Explaining variations in the findings of presenteeism research: A meta-analytic investigation into the moderating effects of construct operationalizations and chronic health.

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