Workplace mistreatment and sickness absenteeism from work: results from the 2010 National Health Interview survey

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• Personal Author:
  Asfaw AG ; Chang CC ; Ray TK
• Description:
  Objective: This study examined the association between workplace mistreatment and occurrence, duration, and costs of sickness absenteeism. Methods: We used the 2010 National Health Interview Survey and considered 13,807 employed adult respondents. We used a zero-inflated negative binomial (zinb) model to examine the association between exposure to workplace mistreatment and the occurrence and number of workdays missed due to illness/injury in the preceding 12 months. Results: In 2010, 7.6% of US workers employed at the time of the survey reported having been mistreated at their workplace. Both occurrence and duration of sickness absence were higher for mistreated than for non-mistreated workers. The zinb results showed that being mistreated was associated with a 42% increase in the number of missed workdays, controlling for covariates. The marginal effect analysis showed that lost workdays differed by 2.45 days between mistreated and non-mistreated workers. This implies that workplace mistreatment was associated with $4.1 billion, or 5.5%, of sickness absenteeism costs in 2010. Conclusions: Workplace mistreatment is associated with sickness absence in the United States. While a causal relationship could not be established due to the cross-sectional design of the study, this study reveals the economic importance of developing workplace mistreatment prevention strategies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Absenteeism Behavior Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Count Data Models Emotional-stress Health-surveys Job-stress Lost-work-days Mathematical-models Mental-health NHIS Psychological-effects Psychological-reactions Psychological-stress Sickness Absenteeism Sociological-factors Statistical-analysis Work-environment Worker-health Worker-motivation Workers Workplace Mistreatment

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  202-213
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043275
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2014 Feb; 57(2):202-213
• Contact Point Address:
  Abay Asfaw, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Office of the Director, 395 E-Street, SW, Washington, DC 20201
• Email:
  hqp0@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8923a35fd08ad275e5c65250e7ef8ee56d76a1e97205260eb9e433def7146277da64efaad6720b77832a0cba8911089ebdea6879bdb9b32e7236fef866ae1ff2
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195208/cdc_195208_DS1.pdf
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