BACKGROUND Absenteeism from outpatient appointments is common. Telephone appointment-reminder calls reduce outpatient-appointment absenteeism in many clinic settings. OBJECTIVE To determine if telephone appointment-reminder calls reduce outpatient absenteeism at a hospital-based pulmonary function laboratory. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of our pulmonary function laboratory's...

BACKGROUND Doctors especially house officers are under a great deal of stress related to a variety of occupational stressors. Occupational stressors contribute to organizational inefficiency, high staff turnover, absenteeism due to sickness, decreased quality, and quantity of practice, increased costs of health care, and decreased job satisfaction. One of the organizational outcomes that affect...

Many schools rely on non-professionals for instructional services in non-academic areas. This may put some students at a disadvantage. This study examined the impact of a computerized, social-emotional intervention, implemented by non-professionals, with 120 low-income, gender-segregated, predominantly Latino sixth graders, in an urban public charter school. School staff randomly assigned stude...

OBJECTIVE This randomised controlled trial (RCT) aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a self-guided internet-based stress management intervention (iSMI) for employees compared to a 6-month wait-list control group (WLC) with full access for both groups to treatment as usual. METHOD A sample of 264 employees with elevated symptoms of perceived stress (Perceived Stress Scale, PSS-10 ≥22) was random...

The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast how differences in perceptions of sexual harassment impact productive work environments for employees in Pakistan as compared to the US; in particular, how it affects job satisfaction, turnover, and/or absenteeism. This study analyzed employee responses in Pakistan (n = 146) and the United States (n = 102, 76) using questionnaire data. Signi...

This quantitative study was performed to research the rate of absenteeism of nursing professionals in a psychiatric center in Manaus, from January/2004 to January/2005, in the Human Resources sector of the institution. In this period, the records of workers who were absent from their professional activities for at least one day were checked. Results showed that there were 415 absence reports in...

The definition of stress, different approaches to the evolution concept sources stress in work environment and effects on individual organization are discussed detail. consequences presented two categories namely organizational consequences. Individual outcomes take form psychological outcomes, behavioral outcomes. Stress negatively affects mental physical health workers. As much as workers, it...

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses with similar skills to similar inpatient units, adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds available nurse shifts, and choosing the number of nurses who float to different units depending on realized demand. All of these decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple nursing units of two hospitals to...

The goal of this paper is to analyze short term-absences from work (i.e., periods of seven days or less) in Sweden during a period with two different reforms. As a theoretical model we use a utility-maximization framework with two restrictions (time and budget constraints). Using multiple spell data, short-term absenteeism is analyzed for a period with three regimes, and it is found that the 19...