Comparison of employer productivity metrics to lost productivity estimated by commonly used questionnaires

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• Personal Author:
  Amick BC III ; Buckner-Petty S ; Dale, Ann M. ; Evanoff B ; Gardner BT ; Van Dillen L
• Description:
  Objective: The aim of the study was to assess construct and discriminant validity of four health-related work productivity loss questionnaires in relation to employer productivity metrics, and to describe variation in economic estimates of productivity loss provided by the questionnaires in healthy workers. Methods: Fifty-eight billing office workers completed surveys including health information and four productivity loss questionnaires. Employer productivity metrics and work hours were also obtained. Results: Productivity loss questionnaires were weakly to moderately correlated with employer productivity metrics. Workers with more health complaints reported greater health-related productivity loss than healthier workers, but showed no loss on employer productivity metrics. Economic estimates of productivity loss showed wide variation among questionnaires, yet no loss of actual productivity. Conclusions: Additional studies are needed comparing questionnaires with objective measures in larger samples and other industries, to improve measurement methods for health-related productivity loss. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workload
• Keywords:
  Health-surveys Lost-work-days Office-workers Performance-capability Qualitative-analysis Quantitative-analysis Questionnaires Sociological-factors Work-analysis Work-capacity Work-intervals Work-operations Work-performance Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Iowa ; Missouri ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  170-177
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047412
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2016 Feb; 58(2):170-177
• Contact Point Address:
  Ann Marie Dale, PhD, Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, 4523 Clayton Avenue, Campus Box 8005, Saint Louis, MO 63110
• Email:
  adale@dom.wustl.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a5fb48d96e437601c95620276aa8be666cbf093085df8c6021bc918c2ed28b7ee69170874112b7794e7553e2d9fef11aaf87d54b023cfaba8a49eff7bb7dcff4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202484/cdc_202484_DS1.pdf
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