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Table 4 Presenteeism measures identified in reviewed publications

From: Presenteeism exposures and outcomes amongst hospital doctors and nurses: a systematic review

Presenteeism measure

Adopted scale origins

Response options

Recall period

Publications

Sickness presenteeism frequency

Single item (Aronsson 2000)

4-point Likert scale

1 year

Demerouti 2009

Dellve 2011

3-point Likert scale

Boumans 2014

Physician Career path questionnaire (PCPQ)

5-point Likert scale

Non-specified

Sendén 2013

Self-derived item (Senden 2013)

5-point Likert scale

Non-specified

Thun 2014

Self-derived items

5-point Likert scale

1 year and lifelong

Senden 2016

Self-derived item

5-point Likert scale

6 months

Vandenbroeck 2017

Sickness presenteeism experience

Derived from Standard Shiftwork Index

Dichotomous (yes/no)

6 months

Trinkoff 2006

Self-derived items

Dichotomous (yes/no)

Non-specified

Mckevit 1997

Self-derived items

Dichotomous (yes/no)

6 months

LaVela 2007

Self-derived items

subjects with lower back pain (LBP) reporting no days of absence for LBP

1 year

d’Errico 2013

Self-derived item

Dichotomous (yes/no)

1 year

Heponiemi 2013

Sickness presenteeism productivity

World Health Organization health and work performance questionnaire (HPQ)

0–10 score

1 week

Warren (2011)

1 item from Work productivity and activity impairment questionnaire (WPAI)

0–10 score

Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6) (α =0.78–0.82)

5-point Likert scale

1 month

Martinez 2012

WPAI

0–10 score

2 weeks

Letvak 2012

Letvak 2013

Work limitations questionnaire (WLQ) (α = 0.8–1.0)

0–100 score

2 weeks

Umann 2014

SPS-6 (α = 0.67)

5-point Likert scale

1 month

Skela-Savič 2017

Perceived ability to work scale (PAWS) (α = 0.89)

0–10 score

Not specified

Yang 2017

Derived from HPQ (top 20 health problems in business sector)

Number of work days/hours

2 weeks

Aysun (2017)

Self-derived item

0–100 score on 10 cm visual analogue scale

1 month

Rantanen (2011)

HPQ

0–10 score

1 month

Christensen 2015

Nurses Work Functioning Questionnaire (NWFQ) and Productivity and Disease Questionnaire (PRODISQ)

7-point Likert scale

Not specified

Noben (2014)

0–1 efficiency score on 10-point scale days worked

6 months

PRODISQ

0–1 efficiency score on 10-point scale days worked

6 months

Noben (2015)