Recent, national attention has focused (understandably) on such issues as opioid abuse and risk evaluation and mitigation strategies. The article in this issue by Karoly, Ruehlman, and Okun [1], however, serves as a reminder that pain-related disability is an enduring societal challenge that should demand similar levels of attention. As testimony to the enduring nature of the challenge, the Ins...

Athletes who train and compete despite health problems are frequently found in competitive sports. In recent years, this phenomenon has been associated with presenteeism that studied mainly occupational health. The research subject is a laborer. Recently, Meyer Thiel (2018, pp.51-52) applied the concept of to athletes as “sickness presenteeism,” which defined sports context “as training or comp...

OBJECTIVE To assess prevalence and correlates of work presenteeism, absenteeism and work disability (WD) in patients with systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) and matched controls. METHODS Patients with SLE from six medical centres were recruited to complete a questionnaire consisting of several prevalidated survey instruments. The subject's rheumatologist completed medical history. Subjects rec...

BACKGROUND Inflammatory arthritis leads to work disability, absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e. at-work productivity loss) at high cost to individuals, employers and society. A trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation (VR) in the United States identified this helped people keep working. The effectiveness of this VR in countries with different socioeconomic policies and conditions, and it...

BACKGROUND The health status of employees with chronic hepatitis C has major implications for organizations and labour market. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of Acetyl-L-Carnitine administration on work productivity, daily activity, and fatigue in subjects with chronic hepatitis C treated with Pegylated-Interferon-α2b and Ribavirin. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this prospective, randomized, pl...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to estimate the productivity loss and indirect costs associated with foot ulcers in patients with diabetic foot syndrome (DFS). An additional goal was to estimate the productivity loss and indirect costs in the population of informal caregivers of patients with DFS. Methods: Based on a prospective survey the effects of ulcers on patients’ professional activiti...

This article presents an account of a young Roma man’s lived experience working in the agricultural sector while sick, and shines spotlight on impact precarious work, low pay eligibility, access to sick pay, with particular emphasis Roma, how these factors interconnect foster presenteeism. The repercussions presenteeism, relayed through Piotr’s personal narrative reflections about his family ro...

Aims and objectives While research suggests that nurses who experience work–family conflicts (WFC) are less satisfied perform well, these negative outcomes may be more important for some nurses. This study proposes a mediated moderation model wherein the interaction between two individual characteristics, workaholism presenteeism, relates to family life satisfaction work performance with WFC me...