background: physical and psychological job demands in combination with the degree of control a worker has over task completion, play an important role in reducing stress. occupational stress is an important, modifiable factor affecting work disability. however, the effectiveness of reducing job demands or increasing job control remains unclear, particularly for outcomes of interest to employers...

To the Editor: Holmberg et al. (1) are rightly concerned that state pandemic plans in the United States represent a patchwork without central coordination or direction. These concerns are particularly relevant for school closure decisions during an influenza pandemic. The US Department of Health and Human Services' checklist regarding school closures gives conflicting messages (2). For example,...

BACKGROUND Evidence has shown that children 0-4 year-old attending childcare are prone to acquire infections compared to children cared for at home, with fever being the most common symptom. Illness absenteeism due to fever and common infections is substantial and mostly driven by unrealistic concerns and negative attitude towards fever of both childcare staff and parents, resulting in illness ...

Absenteeism is an important indicator, not only of illness profile, but also the situation and organization work motivation satisfaction workers. The increasing rate absenteeism in world, can generate overload for other employees. Thus, view increase this pattern absence from work, nursing professional at contribute to reducing absenteeism, focusing on quality life worker. In sense, research ai...

This study examines how students? absenteeism moderates the relationship of math self-concept and motivation to learn on one side achievement in TIMSS 2015 test other. The stratified random sample consists 4036 fourth grade pupils from 160 primary schools Serbia. Separate regression models were made for four levels frequency absenteeism. results show that makes a positive contribution predictio...

BACKGROUND Absenteeism from outpatient appointments is common. Telephone appointment-reminder calls reduce outpatient-appointment absenteeism in many clinic settings. OBJECTIVE To determine if telephone appointment-reminder calls reduce outpatient absenteeism at a hospital-based pulmonary function laboratory. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of our pulmonary function laboratory's...

The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast how differences in perceptions of sexual harassment impact productive work environments for employees in Pakistan as compared to the US; in particular, how it affects job satisfaction, turnover, and/or absenteeism. This study analyzed employee responses in Pakistan (n = 146) and the United States (n = 102, 76) using questionnaire data. Signi...

This quantitative study was performed to research the rate of absenteeism of nursing professionals in a psychiatric center in Manaus, from January/2004 to January/2005, in the Human Resources sector of the institution. In this period, the records of workers who were absent from their professional activities for at least one day were checked. Results showed that there were 415 absence reports in...

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses with similar skills to similar inpatient units, adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds available nurse shifts, and choosing the number of nurses who float to different units depending on realized demand. All of these decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple nursing units of two hospitals to...