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Lifestyle Factors Associated With Self-Reported Work Productivity and Pandemic Impact
Michael S Chin1, Ryan P Moore, Brad M Awalt
1From the Department of Medicine (M.S.C., M.H.A., E.S.B., M.I.Y., L.A.R.); Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff Health & Wellness (M.S.C., B.M.A., M.H.A., E.S.B., M.I.Y., L.A.R.), and Department of Biostatistics (R.P.M.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (D.W.B).
Objective:
This study utilizes longitudinal survey data to (1) explore how lifestyle factors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and (2) assess how modifiable lifestyle factors correlated with self-reported work productivity.
Methods:
Medical center employees participated in a health risk assessment as part of wellness programming in the years 2019 and 2020. Responses were compared before and during the pandemic. A regression model assessed the association between productivity and self-reported lifestyle factors.
Results:
Eighteen thousand forty-nine survey participants completed a total of 26,905 health risk assessments. Exercise and sleep were increased during the pandemic. Regression models demonstrated that social connectedness had the greatest association with productivity.
Conclusions:
This large-scale study is the first to report on a comprehensive set of lifestyle factor changes over the first 2 years of the pandemic. The highest contributing modifiable factor to work productivity was social connectedness.
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