Citation

Aysun K, Bayram Ş, Serap T. Int. J. Occup. Safety Ergonomics 2016; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

c Aksaray University , Department of Health Care Management , Turkey , seraptaskaya@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Publisher Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10803548.2016.1274159

PMID

28004987

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the associations between sickness presenteeism and socio-demographic factors, perceived health status and health complaints among hospital staff and to calculate the cost burdens and productivity losses attributed to presenteeism.

METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted using 951 hospital staff, including physicians, nurses, midwives, other health personnel and administrative staff working in two hospitals that are located in Kırıkkale province in Turkey. The health and work performance questionnaire (HPQ) developed by Kessler et al. (2003) was revised to measure sickness presenteeism.

RESULTS: After performing Student's t test and a one-way analysis of variance, it was found that presenteeism was mostly observed in women, nurse-midwives, young employees, university health staff and health workers with low health status. Average productivity loss and cost of lost productivity per staff member was calculated as 19.92 h / 315.57 TRY for two weeks and 478.08 h / 7573.68 TRY for one year.

CONCLUSIONS: The problem of sickness presenteeism is mostly observed in women and nurses. It causes both financial burdens and productivity losses for hospitals. Thus, these survey results are expected to provide critically important information on presenteeism for decision makers and healthcare managers.

Language: en