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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2015 Apr 4;42(6):769–774. doi: 10.1177/1090198115578751

Table 1.

Health and Work Performance Measures.

Variable Items
Absenteeism
  1. About how many hours altogether did you work in the past 7 days?

  2. How many hours does your employer expect you to work in a typical 7-day week?

Now please think of your work experiences over the past 4 weeks (28 days). In the spaces provided below, write the number of days you spent in each of the following work situations.
  1. How many days did you miss an entire workday because of problems with your own physical or mental health?

  2. How many days did you miss an entire workday because of any other reasons?

  3. How many days did you miss part of a workday because of problems with your own physical or mental health?

  4. How many days did you miss part of a workday because of other reasons?

  5. How many days did you come in early, go home late, or work on an off day?

Presenteeism
  1. On a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst job performance anyone could have at your job and 10 is the performance of a top worker, how would you rate the usual performance of most workers in a job similar to yours?

  2. Rate your usual performance for the past year.

  3. Rate performance in the past 4 weeks when worked.