Employment status matters: a statewide survey of quality-of-life, prevention behaviors, and absenteeism and presenteeism

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• Personal Author:
  Amendola, Alfred A. ; Buikema BS ; Burmeister LF ; Hall JL ; KcKeen A ; Kelly KM ; Lind DP ; Lozier MJ ; Merchant, James A. ; Rohlman DS ; Slater T
• Description:
  Objective: To estimate quality-of-life (QoL), primary care, health insurance, prevention behaviors, absenteeism, and presenteeism in a statewide sample of the unemployed, self-employed, and organizationally employed. Methods: A statewide survey of 1602 Iowans included items from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention QoL and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey prevention behavior questionnaires used to assess employee well-being; their indicator results are related to World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire-derived absenteeism and presenteeism scores. Results: The unemployed exhibited poorer QoL and prevention behaviors; the self-employed exhibited many better QoL scores due largely to better prevention behaviors than those employed by organizations. Higher QoL measures and more prevention behaviors are associated with lower absenteeism and lower presenteeism. Conclusions: Employment status is related to measures of well-being, which are also associated with absenteeism and presenteeism. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Health Promotion Occupational Health Quality Control Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Disease-prevention Employee-health Health-care Health-programs Health-protection Health-surveys Information-retrieval-systems Injury-prevention Lost-work-days Quality-standards Questionnaires Surveillance-programs Total-Worker-Health Worker-health Worker-motivation

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044625
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2014 Jul; 56(7):686-698
• Contact Point Address:
  James A. Merchant, MD, DrPH, Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
• Email:
  james-merchant@uiowa.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing ; Public Safety
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20060901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4d759e2d8fc23810432afd622620b2c005cab3c11ad3ec32ccc99b1b6ecddcc05649672cdaf853338b2e5a66410375eed84da8b67eb2b3683f6a80395acc862a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200291/cdc_200291_DS1.pdf
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