Impacts of presenteeism on work-related injury absence and disease absence

Youna Won,Hwan-Cheol Kim,Jiho Kim,Minsun Kim,Seong-Cheol Yang,Shin-Goo Park,Jong-Han Leem 대한직업환경의학회 2022 대한직업환경의학회지 Vol.34 No.-

Background: Many studies have been conducted on presenteeism and absenteeism, but the relationship between presenteeism and absenteeism is unclear. This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of presenteeism on future absenteeism. Methods: This study was conducted on non-white collar workers that underwent general health examinations in 2014 and 2015. We asked subjects to fill out a questionnaire about their experiences of presenteeism for the past one year in 2014. In 2015, it was checked whether the same subjects had any experience of absence from work due to injury or disease during the past year. The χ² test was used to analyze relationships between sociodemographic and occupational characteristics, presenteeism, and absence. Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated by logistic regression analysis controlled for confounding factors. Results: A total of 12,572 workers were included in the study. For workers who experienced presenteeism, the OR for injury absence was 2.705 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.044–3.581), and the OR for disease absence was 4.906 (95% CI: 3.996–6.024) after adjusting for sociodemographic and occupational confounding factors. For men that experienced presenteeism, the OR for injury absence was 3.035 (95% CI: 2.258–4.081), and the OR for disease absence was 5.508 (95% CI: 4.340–6.989). For women that experienced presenteeism, the OR for injury absence was 1.322 (95% CI: 0.577–3.028), which was not significant, and the OR for disease absence was 3.629 (95% CI: 2.405–5.475). Conclusions: This study suggests that presenteeism can influence future absenteeism. The effect of presenteeism may depend on cause of absence. Men who experienced presenteeism showed greater effects on injury and disease absence than women. For women, experience of presenteeism had a significant effect on disease absence but not on injury absence.

경찰공무원의 결근 실태 및 직무스트레스와의 관련성 분석

신성원 ( Sin Seong Won ) 한국경찰학회 2012 한국경찰학회보 Vol.14 No.4

이 연구에서는 경찰공무원의 결근 실태를 파악하고, 결근과 직무스트레스와의 관련성을 분석하였다. 경찰공무원의 결근의도는 51.4%가 있다고 응답하였고, 결근경험은 90.9%가 없다고 응답하였다. 인구사회학적 특성은 성별, 연령, 학력, 결혼관계 네 가지로 나누어서 결근과의 관계를 분석하였다. 연령과 결근의도에서 저연령대 일수록 결근의도가 높고, 고연령대 일수록 결근의도가 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 결혼관계와 결근의도에서는 미혼자가 기혼자보다 결근의도가 높게 나타나 결혼이 결근 의도에 억제효과가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 조직적 특성은 계급, 근무기간, 근무부서 세 가지로 나누어서 결근과의 관계를 분석하였다. 계급과 결근경험에서는 실제 결근경험이 있는 경우는 비간부가 간부에 비해 2배 이상 높게 나타났다. 근무기간과 결근의도에서는 대체로 10년 이하의 근무자가 11년 이상의 근무자보다 결근의도가 높음을 확인하였다. 근무부서와 결근의도는 경비, 수사·형사, 청문·민원, 경무·인사, 생활안전, 정보·보안, 교통 순으로 높게 나타났다. 결근의도에 따른 직무스트레스 수준의 차이를 살펴보면 통계적으로는 무의미했으나 결근의도가 있었던 경우가 결근 의도가 없었던 경우에 비해 상대적으로 직무스트레스 수준이 다소 높음을 확인할 수 있었다. 결근경험에 따른 직무스트레스 수준의 차이를 살펴보면 결근경험이 있었던 경우가 결근경험이 없었던 경우에 비해 높음을 확인할 수 있었는데, 직무스트레스의 결근실행에 대한 관련성을 보여주는 것이다. In this study, job stress and absence and the relationship of the analysis was to identify and absence status of police officers. Absence of police officers response was 51.4%, 90.9% response was no experience. Analyzed the relationship between absence and the demographic characteristics, gender, age, education, marital status, dividing into four of age and absence in ages, higher absence, high ages, higher absence was low. Marital status and absence were higher absence unmarried than married, the marriage was confirmed that the control effect on absence. Organizational characteristics, absence and the relationship of the rank, working period, department were analyzed. Actual absence experienced in rank and absence in experienced more than doubled compared to the non-executive cadre higher. Of workers less than 10 years duration of employment and absence of 11 years or more workers than High absence was confirmed. Absence intention and job stress level were compared statistically meaningless, but look at the difference between the level of job stress, absence intention according to the relative level of job stress somewhat higher was observed. I investigated the differences in the level of job stress and absence according to the experience. When compared to the experience was high on running of job stress and absence were identified, demonstrating the relevance.

The relationship between fatigue and sickness absence from work

Kim Min Sun,Kim Ji Ho,Yang SeongCheol,Lee Dong-Wook,Park Shin-Goo,Leem Jong-Han,Kim Hwan-Cheol 대한직업환경의학회 2023 대한직업환경의학회지 Vol.35 No.1

Background: Although many studies have been conducted on worker fatigue and sickness absence, the association between fatigue and sickness absence is unclear in Korean workers. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of worker fatigue on future sickness absence. Methods: The study was conducted on workers who received medical check-ups at a university hospital for two consecutive years (2014–2015). During check-ups in the first year, the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) was used to assess fatigue levels, and during check-ups in the second year, sickness absence was surveyed to determine whether they had been absent from work due to physical or mental illness during previous 12 months. The χ2 test was used to analyze relationships between sociodemographic and occupational characteristics, fatigue levels, and sickness absence. Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated by logistic regression analysis controlled for confounding factors. Results: A total of 12,250 workers were included in the study, and 396 (3.2%) workers experienced more than one day of sickness absence during the study period. Adjusted ORs for sickness absence were 3.35 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.64–4.28) in the moderatefatigue group and 6.87 (95% CI: 4.93–9.57) in the high-fatigue group versus the low-fatigue group. For men in the moderate- and high-fatigue groups, adjusted ORs for sickness absence were 3.40 (95% CI: 2.58–4.48) and 8.94 (95% CI: 6.12–13.07), and for women in the moderate- and high-fatigue groups, adjusted ORs for sickness absence were 2.93 (95% CI: 1.68–5.10) and 3.71 (95% CI: 1.84–7.49), respectively. Conclusions: Worker fatigue is associated with sickness absence during the following 12 months, and this association appears to be stronger for men than women. These results support the notion that sickness absence can be reduced by evaluating and managing workrelated fatigue.

직무만족도가 근로자의 질병결근에 미치는 영향 : 불건강증상 경험수의 조절효과

이경용,박원열 대한안전경영과학회 2014 대한안전경영과학회지 Vol.16 No.4

Sickness absence is one of the most important indicators for worker's health and occupational safety and health performance. Sickness absence is primarily depended upon sickness but psycho-social factors in workplace may moderate sickness absence. Even though worker is falling into illness, sickness absence can be prevented by job satisfaction. In Korea it is very difficult to find research output about the association of sickness absence with job satisfaction. This study is planned to investigate the effect of job satisfaction on sickness absence. The third Korean Working Conditions Survey done by Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute in 2011 was used to analyze by logistic regression analysis. The result has shown that job satisfaction has statistically significant effect on sickness absence and simultaneously diminish the effect of symptoms experience on sickness absence. The effect of job satisfaction is greater in short term sickness absence than in long term sickness absence. This study has some limitation because of the cross sectional data of Korean Working Conditions Survey. In future, sophisticated statistical analysis may be done with modelling.

휴학의 노동시장 성과: 대학졸업생 중 39세 이하 여성을 중심으로

이종하 ( Jong Ha Lee ),김동준 ( Dong Jun Kim ),김준 ( Jun Kim ) 한국여성경제학회 2016 여성경제연구 Vol.13 No.1

최근 한국의 노동시장은 취업난으로 인한 대학생들의 휴학, 그리고 여성의 노동시장 참여확대가 사회 이슈로 떠오르고 있다. 그러나 휴학경험이 노동시장 진입 후 성과(임금)에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가에 대한 연구는 미미한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 2011GOMS 데이터를 이용해 대학에서의 휴학경험이 여성의 노동시장 성과(임금)에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 이때, 여성의 연령을 경제활동참가율이 상대적으로 낮은 39세 이하 여성으로 제한하여 분석했다. 분석 결과, 휴학경험이 있는 39세 이하 여성은 임금에 부정적인 영향이 있는 것으로 나타났고, 휴학 사유(취업준비, 경제적), 수도권 대학(전문대, 4년제), 지방 대학(전문대, 4년제)으로 나누어 분석한 결과 역시 유사한 결과가 도출되었다. 이러한 결과는 가정형편 상 휴학을 해야 하는 여학생을 제외하고는 휴학은 되도록 방지되어야 하며, 휴학 방지를 위한 대학 또는 정부의 지원 프로그램 마련이 필요하다는 것을 시사한다. Recent rising issues in Korea labor market are growing numbers of university students on leave of absence due to unemployment crisis and women’s economic participation. But there are few studies about what effect female university students’ experience of leave of absence have on wage after their participation. Therefore, we examine the effect of their experience of leave of absence on wage in labor market focusing on under-39-years-old ones who have relatively low economic participation. The results show that female university students’ experience of leave of absence has a negative effect on wage for under-39-years-old women. And the same results are represented for sub-samples such as (2-years-course) colleges and (4-years-course) universities in metropolitan or non-metropolitan areas. Only for female students who have ever leave of absence, those who have taken a leave of absence for preparation of employment present better outcome on their wage than those who for economic difficulties. These results suggest that female students’ leave of absence be contained except for unavoidable cases, and support programs by universities or governments be needed in order to prevent their leave of absence.

이가림 시의 부재의식

최명표 한국언어문학교육학회 2014 한어문교육 Vol.31 No.-

This thesis has been designed to figure out the source of consciousness of absence found in Lee Ga-rim’s poems. As a poet in the 1960’s, he accepted the exotic atmosphere due to the political despair resulted from the establishment of the military regime. His way of responding to it seemed to be alienated from the reality mingled with his sentiment in youth, but it was really the expression of resistance against the political situation in Korea. However, he did recall the spirit of April 19 Democratic Revolution and replaced the sentiment with historicity. Lee Ga-rim’s consciousness of history consists of two things: his personal longing and sorrow. In his poems, sorrow can be often detected as it is defined as the object of aesthetic existence. And sorrow appears along with longing. In the point that longing is an emotional response to the absence of an object, longing internalized in his poems is the phenomenon resulted from the absence of emotional exchange. He does cure this absence of communication with poetic moderation. Longing that is empowered by this becomes the very act that a being proves absence. In Lee Ga-rim’s poems, the phenomenon of absence is pervasive. It was generated in connection with his family history, political situations in Korea, his stay in France for studying, or the alienation of his home. The consciousness of absence that is attributed to those external conditions appears very frequently in his poems. With this absence, he confirms his self-identity and realizes the substance of lyrical truth mingled with sorrow and longing. In other words, his consciousness of absence is the very poetic struggle to return to ‘innocent ruins’.

여자 대학생의 학업중단 유형 분류 및 관련 요인 분석

임언,곽윤영 한국직업교육학회 2011 職業 敎育 硏究 Vol.30 No.2

This study aims to categorize the leave of absence types of college students and find related factors using Korean Education and Employment Panel(KEEP) 2004(base year) through 2009(5th follow-up) data. The leave of absence types are classified into four groups: 'leave of absence due to positive reasons', 'leave of absence due to negative reasons', 'graduated without leave of absence', and 'registered without leave of absence'. Multinomial logistic regression models were estimated in order to find out influential variables in this categorization. The results shows that father's years of education, family income, level of satisfaction with college and major, attitude of learning and concerns about family, college and societal lives are related. 본 연구는 한국교육고용패널(KEEP) 1차에서부터 6차까지의 데이터를 활용하여, 2004년도에 고3이었던 여자 대학생의 학업중단 유형을 구분하고 관련된 요인을 살펴보는 데 목적이 있었다. 학업중단유형을 ‘긍정적인 이유로 휴학’, ‘부정적인 이유로 휴학’, ‘휴학없이 졸업’, ‘휴학없이 재학 중’인 집단으로 구분하고, 그러한 구분에 작용하는 요인들을 다항로지스틱 회귀분석을 통하여 확인하였다. 아버지의 학력, 가구소득, 고교성적, 대학 및 전공 만족도, 학습태도가 관련이 있었으며, 학생들이 가지고 있는 가정, 대학, 사회생활과 관련된 고민이 관련이 있음을 확인하였다.

Impact of Korean Workers' Experience of Exposure to the Physical Work Factors on Absence

Choi, Seo-Yeon,Lee, Seong-Jin 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2017 韓國컴퓨터情報學會論文誌 Vol.22 No.6

In this paper, we propose to enhance a Physical working conditions to decrease absence from work. we demonstrated the correlation of worker's absence with various environmental factors in workplace by surveying 6,962 workers. As result, first, concerning exposure to physical work factors, most of them complained of vibration, and concerning exposure to improper working posture, most of them complained of repetitive arm and hand motions. Second, the absence experience had correlations with age, monthly income, smoking, number of employees, long term working, and shift work, and of the physical factors, hand vibration, noise, high temperature, low temperature and improper working posture had correlations with physical pain posture, movement of people and carrying heavy materials. Third, experience of exposure to hand vibration, noise and low temperature of the physical factors had impact on absence, and of the improper working posture, physical pain posture and carrying heavy stuff had impacts on absence. Through this study, it was found that of the work factors of Korean workers, physical factors and improper working posture had impacts on absence. The results of this study confirmed that physical factors and inappropriate working posture among work factors influenced the absenteeism. Therefore, it is required to improve the work environment regarding physical risk factors and prepare a systematic management plan.

초기청소년과 중기청소년의 컴퓨터 사용시간에 대한 방과후 보호자부재와 학교적응의 상호작용

김신아,한윤선 한국아동권리학회 2015 아동과 권리 Vol.19 No.1

The purpose of this study was to examine the interaction between after-school caregiver absence and school adjustment in predicting computer use among early and middle adolescents in Korea. Two panels of the nationally representative Korea Child and Youth Panel Study(N: 5th grade=2,109, 8th grade=2,036) were analyzed using hierarchical regression models. Computer use was calculated as average(minutes/day), after-school caregiver absence was categorized into three groups-high, moderate, and low. School adjustment represented school rules, learning activities, and teacher/peer relationship quality in schools. The interaction effect between the high caregiver absence group and school adjustment among early adolescents was significant, indicating the protective role of school adjustment in preventing computer use among youth with high after-school caregiver absence. But there were no interaction effects between care-giver absence and school adjustment among youth in middle adolescence. Results suggested that among youth with high levels of caregiver absence, adolescent's Internet addiction can be minimized by helping them adapt well in school. 본 연구의 목적은 청소년 컴퓨터 사용시간에 대한 방과후 보호자부재와 학교적응의 상호작용효과를 알아보는 것이다. 이를 위해 “한국아동·청소년패널조사 2013” 2차년도 데이터 초등학교 5학년 2,019명과 중학교 2학년 2,036명을 활용하여 위계적 회귀모형으로 분석하였다. 분석결과, 초기청소년과 중기청소년 자료에서 방과후 보호자부재와 학교적응은 컴퓨터 사용시간을 유의하게 예측하였다. 또한 초기청소년의 컴퓨터 사용시간에 대한 방과후 보호자부재와 학교적응의 상호작용효과가 유의하여 보호자부재가 높은 집단에서 학교적응은 보호요인으로 작용하였다. 이러한 결과는 연령이 증가해도 방과후 성인의 보호와 감독은 여전히 중요하며, 보호자부재가 높더라도 청소년들이 학교적응을 잘 할 수 있도록 돕는다면 이들의 과도한 컴퓨터 사용을 중재해 줄 수 있음을 시사한다.

피로와 의료이용, 업무상 사고 및 질병결근

장세진,고상백,강동묵,김성아,정진주,이철갑,강명근,현숙정,조정진,차봉석,박종구 大韓産業醫學會 2005 대한직업환경의학회지 Vol.17 No.4

Objectives: This study examined the relationship of fatigue to medical utilization, occupational accident and sickness absence. Subjects and Methods: Data were obtained from the National Study for Development and Standardization of Occupational Stress (NSDSOS Project, 2002~2004). A total of 30,146 employees categorized within the Korean Standard Industrial Classification and the Korean Standard Occupational Classification were recruited. A structured-questionnaire was used to assess the participants' sociodemo-graphics, job-related factors, health-related behaviors, personality trait, self=perceived fatigue (MFS) and the frequency of medical utilization, occupational accident and sickness absence. Data on medical utilization and occupational accident were confirmed from company health records. Chi-square test and logistic regression analysis were used to elucidate the relationship of self-perceived fatigue to medical utilization, occupational accident and sickness absence. Results: In logistic regression analyses, self-perceived fatigue was associated with medical utilization (outpatient), occupational accident and sickness absence although the strength of the associations was higher in the blue collar workers except for medical utilization. For medical utilization, the white collar worker's adjusted odds ratios of outpatient utilization for workers scoring in the third quartile and the highest quartile, compared to workers scoring in the lowest quartile were 1.50 (95% CI: 1.20-1.87) and 2.16 (95% CI: 1.69-2.75), respectively. The blue collar workers' adjusted odds ratios of outpatient utilization for workers scoring in the second (OR: 1.23, 95% CI: 1.06-1.43), third (OR: 1.42, 95% CI: 1.22-1.66) and highest quartile (OR:1.83, 95% CI: 1.55-2.17), respectively, compared to workers scoring in the lowest quartile were statistically significant. However, no associations were found between fatigue and inpatient utilization for either the white or blue collar workers. The blue collar workers' adjusted odds ratios of being injured for workers scoring in the second, third and highest quartile were 1.41 (95% CI: 1.00-2.00), 1.57 (95% CI: 1.10-2.22) and 2.41 (95% CI: 1.69-3.44), respectively, compared to those scoring in the lowest quartile, but, those of the white collar workers were not significant. There was more likely to an increased risk of sickness absence in workers scoring in the second, third and highest quartile compared to those scoring in the lowest quartile in both white and blue collar workers, but the magnitudes of risk were higher in the blue collar workers than the white collars workers. Conclusion: This result suggests that fatigue is a determinant predictor of medical utilization, occupational accident and sickness absence, and that the pattern of risks for the three outcomes differs according to the occupational type. Some limitations of this study and considerations for future study were also discussed.