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JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 56, Issue 7, Pages 686-698Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000149
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- NIOSH [5U19OH008868]
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Objective: To estimate quality-of-life (QoL), primary care, health insurance, prevention behaviors, absenteeism, and presenteeism in a statewide sample of the unemployed, self-employed, and organizationally employed. Methods: A statewide survey of 1602 Iowans included items from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention QoL and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey prevention behavior questionnaires used to assess employee well-being; their indicator results are related to World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire-derived absenteeism and presenteeism scores. Results: The unemployed exhibited poorer QoL and prevention behaviors; the self-employed exhibited many better QoL scores due largely to better prevention behaviors than those employed by organizations. Higher QoL measures and more prevention behaviors are associated with lower absenteeism and lower presenteeism. Conclusions: Employment status is related to measures of well-being, which are also associated with absenteeism and presenteeism.
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