Work organization, exposure to workplace hazards and sickness presenteeism in the European employed population

d’Errico, Angelo; Ardito, Chiara; Leombruni, Roberto

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“…Presenteeism is summarily defined as working ill instead of having taken leave (4) and entails lower performance at work due to health problems (3,5,6). Absenteeism is defined as absence from work (7) due to valid (sick-leave) or less valid reasons (taking a day-off) (8).…”

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“…Two longitudinal studies have indicated that presenteeism may increase the risk of future health disorders (15,16), as it stands in the way of recovery (3,17). In fact, presenteeism can lead to more sickness absence, as indicated by the positive correlation between the two in several studies (4,18,19).…”

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“…Both have a very similar negative effect on business, such as expenses and losses in work hours, production, and work morale (9,10). Presenteeism is often a hidden cost, as workers are physically present, but their performance/productivity is poor (3,11). A large study (12) reported presenteeismrelated production losses of 72 % compared with 28 % of those caused by absenteeism.…”

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“…In medical profession, presenteeism not only affects the quality of work (3,11,26) but puts patients, colleagues, and visitors at the risk of contagion (3,27). In other words, it compromises the very purpose of their work -patient safety.…”

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Patient safety culture shapes presenteeism and absenteeism: a cross-sectional study among Croatian healthcare workers

Brborović

2017

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Healthcare workers have high rates of injuries and illnesses at the workplace, and both their absence from work due to illness (absenteeism) or working ill (presenteeism) can compromise patient safety and the quality of health care delivered. Following this premise, we wanted to determine whether presenteeism and absenteeism were associated with patient safety culture (PSC) and in what way. Our sample consisted of 595 Croatian healthcare workers (150 physicians and 445 nurses) who answered the short-form WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire and the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. The results have confirmed the association with both presenteeism and absenteeism in several PSC dimensions, but not as we expected based on the premise from which we started. Opposite to our expectations, lower job performance (as a measure of presenteeism) was associated with higher PSC instead of lower PSC. Absenteeism, in turn, was associated with lower PSC, just as we expected. These findings suggest that it is the PSC that shapes presenteeist and absenteeist behaviour and not the other way around. High PSC leads to presenteeism, and low PSC to absenteeism. We also believe that the presenteeism questionnaires should be adjusted to health care and better define what lower performance means both quantitatively and qualitatively in a hospital setting. KEY WORDS: nurses; physicians; work performancePresenteeism and absenteeism are rather widespread and present a growing public health concern (1-3). Presenteeism is summarily defined as working ill instead of having taken leave (4) and entails lower performance at work due to health problems (3,5,6). Absenteeism is defined as absence from work (7) due to valid (sick-leave) or less valid reasons (taking a day-off) (8). Both have a very similar negative effect on business, such as expenses and losses in work hours, production, and work morale (9, 10). Presenteeism is often a hidden cost, as workers are physically present, but their performance/productivity is poor (3,11). A large study (12) reported presenteeismrelated production losses of 72 % compared with 28 % of those caused by absenteeism. Other studies also reported higher costs of presenteeism than of absenteeism (13,14).Two longitudinal studies have indicated that presenteeism may increase the risk of future health disorders (15, 16), as it stands in the way of recovery (3, 17). In fact, presenteeism can lead to more sickness absence, as indicated by the positive correlation between the two in several studies (4,18,19).The extent of presenteeism is perhaps best illustrated by a Dutch study (20) reporting that 70 % of the randomly selected participants had claimed to have worked sick at least once a year (20). With physicians, this prevalence soars to 90 % (21-25).In medical profession, presenteeism not only affects the quality of work (3, 11, 26) but puts patients, colleagues, and visitors at the risk of contagion (3,27). In other words, it compromises the very purpose of their work -patient safety. However, pa...

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Patient safety culture shapes presenteeism and absenteeism: a cross-sectional study among Croatian healthcare workers

Brborović

2017

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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“…Sickness presenteeism (SP) is a phenomenon in people who attend work despite being sick or feeling like they should have taken sick leave (Aronsson, Gustafsson, & Dallner, ). This definition is primarily used in European research, and research in the United States of America defines SP as reduced work performance due to the presence of health problems (d'Errico, Ardito, & Leombruni, ; Lerner, Amick, Malspeis, & Rogers, ; Schultz & Edington, ). Employees who come to work sick generally feel sick and tired and have a low work morale and a low opinion of their work, which results in low work productivity and poor work quality (Ashby & Mahdon, ; Goetzel et al, ; Koopman et al, ; Middaugh, ; Miraglia & Johns, ).…”

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

Brborović

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Dakaj

et al. 2017

Int J of Nursing Practice

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Sickness presenteeism: Are we sure about what we are studying? A research based on a literature review and an empirical illustration

Navarro

Salas‐Nicás

Llorens

et al. 2019

American J Industrial Med

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Background: There has been an increasing interest in studying sickness presenteeism (SP). An ever-increasing amount of scientific literature is published using this term, yet there appears to be considerable heterogeneity in how it is assessed, which could result in substantial differences in the definition and interpretation of the phenomenon really being studied. We aim to discuss what really is being studied, depending on how the phenomenon is operationalized, measured, and analyzed.Methods: A study based on a literature review and an empirical illustration using data of the third Spanish Psychosocial Risks Survey (2016). Results:Differences are observed based on the population in which SP is measured, the cut-off points used to define a worker as presenteeist, the reasons for an SP episode and even an analysis of the phenomenon treated as a count or as a dichotomous.Conclusions: Without being completely exclusive, it seems that restricting the population of analysis to only those workers who consider that they should not have gone to work due to their health, and/or establishing low cut-off points to define someone as presenteeist, would more clearly delimit the study of SP to the exercise of a right to sick leave. In contrast, working with the entire population or using high cut-off points appears to relate the study of SP more with health status and less with the exercise of rights. On the other hand, taking the reasons for SP into account would probably help to improve interpretation of the phenomenon.Since the 1980s, the economic impact of the loss of productivity among presenteeist workers, that is those who report for work despite being ill, has been a topic of interest in disciplines such as social sciences or management. 1,2 It has been observed, for example, that in certain circumstances the cost associated with performance-based work loss could exceed the costs of absenteeism and medical treatment combined. 3 A second approach focuses on the act of attending work while ill and its effects on worker's health. 1,4 In this approach, presenteeism is defined as the fact of working despite being ill 5 and it should be considered an important issue due to its association with several health problems. [6][7][8][9][10][11] In recent meta-analytic research, McGregor et al 12 explore the effect of these two operationalizations of presenteeism on previous Am J Ind Med. 2019;62:580-589. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajim 580 |

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Work organization, exposure to workplace hazards and sickness presenteeism in the European employed population

Abstract: Our results support the importance of work-related factors, especially psychosocial exposures and organizational features, in determining workers' SP.

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

Patient safety culture shapes presenteeism and absenteeism: a cross-sectional study among Croatian healthcare workers

Patient safety culture shapes presenteeism and absenteeism: a cross-sectional study among Croatian healthcare workers

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

Sickness presenteeism: Are we sure about what we are studying? A research based on a literature review and an empirical illustration

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