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Diana Guertler1, Corneel Vandelanotte, Camille Short
1From the Institute for Health and Social Science Research (Ms Guertler, Dr Vandelanotte, Dr Short, Ms Alley, Ms Schoeppe, and Dr Duncan), Centre for Physical Activity Studies, School of Health and Human Services, Central Queensland University, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia; Institute of Social Medicine and Prevention (Ms Guertler), University Medicine, Walther-Rathenau-Strasse; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research) (Ms Guertler), Greifswald Partner Site, Greifswald, Germany; and School of Medicine & Public Health (Dr Duncan), Priority Research Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Objective:
This study aims to examine the relationship of lifestyle behaviors (physical activity, work and non-work sitting time, sleep quality, and sleep duration) with presenteeism while controlling for sociodemographics, work- and health-related variables.
Methods:
Data were collected from 710 workers (aged 20 to 76 years; 47.9% women) from randomly selected Australian adults who completed an online survey. Linear regression was used to examine the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and presenteeism.
Results:
Poorer sleep quality (standardized regression coefficients [B] = 0.112; P < 0.05), suboptimal duration (B = 0.081; P < 0.05), and lower work sitting time (B = -0.086; P < 0.05) were significantly associated with higher presenteeism when controlling for all lifestyle behaviors. Engaging in three risky lifestyle behaviors was associated with higher presenteeism (B = 0.150; P < 0.01) compared with engaging in none or one.
Conclusions:
The results of this study highlight the importance of sleep behaviors for presenteeism and call for behavioral interventions that simultaneously address sleep in conjunction with other activity-related behaviors.
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