Abstract
to analyze factors associated with presenteeism in nursing workers with sociodemographic variables, health and work conditions, productivity and musculoskeletal symptoms. this is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study, with 306 nursing workers from a hospital and municipal emergency room in a Brazilian capital. The Stanford Presenteeism Scale, the Work Limitations Questionnaire, the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire and a demographic questionnaire on nursing professionals' working conditions and health were used. Bivariate and multivariate analyzes were performed, respecting a significance level of 5%. presenteeism was found in 43.8% of professionals and significant associations with CLT work (p=0.002), workplace - Intensive Care Units (p=0.008), physical exercise twice a week (p=0.008), presence of musculoskeletal symptoms, with low back pain being representative (p=0.001). The productivity loss was 8.8. the study confirms a high rate of presenteeism among nursing workers.
Highlights
Presenteeism is seen in literature in a conceptual, recent and heterogeneous way and concerns the attendance of professionals at their workplace, even if they feel sick, whether physically or psychologically[1,2,3].The definitions of this phenomenon have reference to the physical presence in the workplace, but they may present differences in its content[3]
Presenteeism has been cited in literature as a problem nowadays, and recent studies have demonstrated its impact on the finished work, causing a decrease in the productivity of this worker, with consequent losses for organizations, as well as negative repercussions on quality of care that will reflect no patients[3,5,6,7]
Of the nursing professionals assessed in this research as presenteeists by SPS6, more than 40% of the population was classified with a low score, characterized by a reduction in their work performance, and dimension 1 of that instrument showed that the finished work corresponding to the physical aspects was the most impaired
Summary
Presenteeism is seen in literature in a conceptual, recent and heterogeneous way and concerns the attendance of professionals at their workplace, even if they feel sick, whether physically or psychologically[1,2,3]. The definitions of this phenomenon have reference to the physical presence in the workplace, but they may present differences in its content[3]. These definitions are directly related to the decrease in productivity as a result of some health problem. Presenteeism has been cited in literature as a problem nowadays, and recent studies have demonstrated its impact on the finished work, causing a decrease in the productivity of this worker, with consequent losses for organizations, as well as negative repercussions on quality of care that will reflect no patients[3,5,6,7]
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