BACKGROUND The prevention of sickness absenteeism of nurses is an important issue for organizations in health care as well as for nurses. The role of work-related attitudes, such as organizational commitment, as a cause of absenteeism is still unclear. OBJECTIVES To examine the influence over time of organizational commitment, health complaints, and visits to a general practitioner on sicknes...

BACKGROUND Many university departments use students' evaluations of teaching (SET) to compare and rank courses. However, absenteeism from class is often nonrandom and, therefore, SET for different courses might not be comparable. OBJECTIVE The present study aims to answer two questions. Are SET positively biased due to absenteeism? Do procedures, which adjust for absenteeism, change course ra...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

BACKGROUND Students' health and school absenteeism affect educational level, with adverse effects on their future health. This interdependence is reflected in medical absenteeism. In the Netherlands, a public health intervention has been developed to address medical absenteeism in pre-vocational secondary education. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of this intervention on studen...

BACKGROUND School absenteeism data may have utility as an early indicator of disease outbreaks, however their value should be critically examined. This paper describes an evaluation of the utility of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection in New York City (NYC). METHODS To assess citywide temporal trends in absenteeism, we downloaded three years (2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04) of da...

Word Count: Abstract 205 Main Text 4064 Additional file: A summary of studies included in the review. Abstract The contribution of inadequate health worker numbers and emigration have been highlighted in the international literature but relatively little attention has been paid to absenteeism as a factor that undermines health care delivery in low income countries. We therefore aimed to review ...

Pematangsiantar Mayor Office is an institution that used and functions to serve protect the community. This paper proposes a decision support system research using Promethee method. one of several methods determining order or priority in multi-criteria analysis. writing uses method as step provision incentives for freelance daily staff at Mayor's Office. In this study authors took 10 alternativ...