OBJECTIVES To estimate the number and cost of asthma-related productivity loss days due to absenteeism and presenteeism (at work but not fully functioning) in Alberta in 2005. METHODS Using data from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey, this study focused on people of working age (18-64 years), who reported having an asthma diagnosis. Total asthma-related disability days, including in-b...

BACKGROUND: Health problems due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and common mental (CMD) result in costs lost productivity. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed increase knowledge of employers’ productivity loss employees’ presenteeism sickness absence. METHODS: A web questionnaire was sent employers workers who were sick-listed for more than 30 days MSD or CMD, response rate: 50%, n = 198. Presenteei...

Although employees in an organization are forced to go to work, they are sometimes unable to work due to the lack of their physical and psychological health. Being at work physically and taking part in that environment cannot be inferred as employees are actually ready for the organizational tasks mentally. This turns out the lack of efficiency and is defined as presenteeism. One of the other s...

OBJECTIVES To compare the impact of the combination of etanercept (ETN) and MTX with MTX alone on work productivity among MTX-naïve patients with active early RA over a 12-month period. METHODS The COMET (COmbination of Methotrexate and ETanercept) trial was a 2-year double-blind randomized clinical trial. Absenteeism during the first year was measured and it included: (i) number of missed wo...

BACKGROUND Annual US health-related productivity losses are estimated to reach some $260 billion, attributable not only to absenteeism but also to presenteeism (being present at work but working at a reduced capacity). The search for remedies has been hampered by the lack of accurate estimates of the loss of productivity and its true costs. To date, little effort has been made to assess the ava...

BACKGROUND Spondyloarthritis often affects young people, typically in their working years. The aim of our study was to investigate work productivity and its relationship with disease activity and physical functioning in Italian patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) with chronic back pain (CBP) for ≥3 months and ≤2 years, and onset  < 45 years of age. METHODS Baseline absenteeism, pres...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of a combined social and physical environmental intervention as well as the effectiveness of both separate interventions. METHODS In a 2 × 2 factorial design, 412 office employees were allocated to the combined social and physical environmental intervention, to the social environmental intervention only, to the physical environmental intervention onl...

BACKGROUND Depression is reported to be a major cause of illness-related sub-optimal work performance (presenteeism). However, the majority of studies examining presenteeism have relied on self-report measures of work performance. Furthermore, employers currently face a number of practical challenges in attempting to facilitate early identification of depression. AIMS To test whether a web-ba...

BACKGROUND Individual work performance is an important outcome measure in studies in the workplace. Nevertheless, its conceptualization and measurement has proven challenging. To overcome limitations of existing scales, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) was recently developed. The aim of the current study was to gain insight into the responsiveness of the IWPQ. METHODS Data...