Measuring work productivity with a mental health self-report measure
Vinessa K Trotter1, Michael J Lambert, Gary M Burlingame
1Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|May 19, 2009
Abstract
Objective:
To determine whether the Social Role (SR) Scale of the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ) can predict work productivity.
Methods:
Employees at Utah State Hospital completed the OQ and the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment Scale (WPAI) once monthly for four months.
Results:
The SR predicted the WPAI Presenteeism and Activity Impairment scales.
Conclusions:
The SR can be used to estimate work productivity using tools like the Productivity Calculator. Specific relationships among measures and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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