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Exhaustion and Impaired Work Performance in the Workplace: Associations With Presenteeism and Absenteeism
Emmanuel Aboagye1, Christina Björklund, Klas Gustafsson
1Department of Occupational Health Sciences and Psychology, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden (Drs Aboagye, Bergström); Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Insurance Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Drs Gustafsson, Marklund); Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (Dr Aronsson); Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (Dr Leineweber); Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research for Worker Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (Drs Aboagye, Björklund, Hagberg, Bergström).
Objective:
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between presenteeism and absenteeism during the previous year and the current levels of exhaustion and impaired work performance in a Swedish university setting.
Methods:
In a study of 3525 employees, an ordinal logistic regression and general linear model was used to examine the association between presenteeism and absenteeism during the previous year and the current exhaustion and impaired work performance, respectively.
Results:
Presenteeism, but not absenteeism, during the previous year independently increased the risk of having moderate or severe exhaustion. Presenteeism, absenteeism, and exhaustion remained positively associated with impaired work performance when health status and other confounders had been adjusted for.
Conclusions:
Presenteeism, but not absenteeism, was associated with exhaustion. Both presenteeism and absenteeism were the salient correlates of impaired work performance.
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