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      Association between sickness presenteeism and depressive symptoms in Korean workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study

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          Abstract

          Background

          During the COVID-19 pandemic, Korean workers have reported various types of sickness presenteeism (SP: continuing to attend work during illness). Understanding SP through mental health perspectives will help to make practical strategy for better working conditions. We examined the association between SP and depression among Korean workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation with the socioeconomic and lifestyle factors.

          Methods

          Data from the 2020 Korean Community Health Survey were used as a representative nationwide sample dataset. We surveyed the experience of depression in the last two weeks from individuals who worked more than a week recently. We investigated the associations between SP and depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were scored using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the significance of the associations.

          Results

          Analysis of the data obtained from 84,514 participants revealed that 1700 (2.2 %) participants reported experiencing depressive symptoms in 2020. Employees with SP showed higher association with depressive symptoms than employers or self-employed individuals (OR = 2.18, 95 % CI: 1.85, 2.56 among employees vs. OR = 1.76, 95 % CI: 1.29, 2.40 among employers or self-employed individuals).

          Conclusion

          SP has become more prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic. A protective strategy against SP among vulnerable workers is necessary for a healthier and safer society.

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          The PHQ-9: validity of a brief depression severity measure.

          K Kroenke, R L Spitzer, J. Williams (2001)
          While considerable attention has focused on improving the detection of depression, assessment of severity is also important in guiding treatment decisions. Therefore, we examined the validity of a brief, new measure of depression severity. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) is a self-administered version of the PRIME-MD diagnostic instrument for common mental disorders. The PHQ-9 is the depression module, which scores each of the 9 DSM-IV criteria as "0" (not at all) to "3" (nearly every day). The PHQ-9 was completed by 6,000 patients in 8 primary care clinics and 7 obstetrics-gynecology clinics. Construct validity was assessed using the 20-item Short-Form General Health Survey, self-reported sick days and clinic visits, and symptom-related difficulty. Criterion validity was assessed against an independent structured mental health professional (MHP) interview in a sample of 580 patients. As PHQ-9 depression severity increased, there was a substantial decrease in functional status on all 6 SF-20 subscales. Also, symptom-related difficulty, sick days, and health care utilization increased. Using the MHP reinterview as the criterion standard, a PHQ-9 score > or =10 had a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 88% for major depression. PHQ-9 scores of 5, 10, 15, and 20 represented mild, moderate, moderately severe, and severe depression, respectively. Results were similar in the primary care and obstetrics-gynecology samples. In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity. These characteristics plus its brevity make the PHQ-9 a useful clinical and research tool.
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            Korea Community Health Survey Data Profiles

            Yang Kang, Yun Ko, Yoo-Jin Kim … (2015)
            In 2008, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated the first nationwide survey, Korea Community Health Survey (KCHS), to provide data that could be used to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate community health promotion and disease prevention programs. This community-based cross-sectional survey has been conducted by 253 community health centers, 35 community universities, and 1500 interviewers. The KCHS standardized questionnaire was developed jointly by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff, a working group of health indicators standardization subcommittee, and 16 metropolitan cities and provinces with 253 regional sites. The questionnaire covers a variety of topics related to health behaviors and prevention, which is used to assess the prevalence of personal health practices and behaviors related to the leading causes of disease, including smoking, alcohol use, drinking and driving, high blood pressure control, physical activity, weight control, quality of life (European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions, European Quality of Life-Visual Analogue Scale, Korean Instrumental Activities of Daily Living ), medical service, accident, injury, etc. The KCHS was administered by trained interviewers, and the quality control of the KCHS was improved by the introduction of a computer-assisted personal interview in 2010. The KCHS data allow a direct comparison of the differences of health issues among provinces. Furthermore, the provinces can use these data for their own cost-effective health interventions to improve health promotion and disease prevention. For users and researchers throughout the world, microdata (in the form of SAS files) and analytic guidelines can be downloaded from the KCHS website (http://KCHS.cdc.go.kr/) in Korean.
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              Sick but yet at work. An empirical study of sickness presenteeism.

              M Dallner, G Aronsson, Jenny Gustafsson (2000)
              The study is an empirical investigation of sickness presenteeism in relation to occupation, irreplaceability, ill health, sickness absenteeism, personal income, and slimmed down organisation. Cross sectional design. Swedish workforce. The study group comprised a stratified subsample of 3801 employed persons working at the time of the survey, interviewed by telephone in conjunction with Statistics Sweden's labour market surveys of August and September 1997. The response rate was 87 per cent. A third of the persons in the total material reported that they had gone to work two or more times during the preceding year despite the feeling that, in the light of their perceived state of health, they should have taken sick leave. The highest presenteeism is largely to be found in the care and welfare and education sectors (nursing and midwifery professionals, registered nurses, nursing home aides, compulsory school teachers and preschool/primary educationalists. All these groups work in sectors that have faced personnel cutbacks during the 1990s). The risk ratio (odds ratio (OR)) for sickness presenteeism in the group that has to re-do work remaining after a period of absence through sickness is 2.29 (95% CI 1.79, 2.93). High proportions of persons with upper back/neck pain and fatigue/slightly depressed are among those with high presenteeism (p< 0.001). Occupational groups with high sickness presenteeism show high sickness absenteeism (rho = 0. 38; p<.01) and the hypothesis on level of pay and sickness presenteeism is also supported (rho = -0.22; p<0.01). Members of occupational groups whose everyday tasks are to provide care or welfare services, or teach or instruct, have a substantially increased risk of being at work when sick. The link between difficulties in replacement or finding a stand in and sickness presenteeism is confirmed by study results. The categories with high sickness presenteeism experience symptoms more often than those without presenteeism. The most common combination is low monthly income, high sickness absenteeism and high sickness presenteeism.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Affect Disord
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Affect Disord
                Title: Journal of Affective Disorders
                Publisher: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
                ISSN (Print): 0165-0327
                ISSN (Electronic): 1573-2517
                Publication date PMC-release: 16 September 2022
                Publication date (Electronic): 16 September 2022
                Affiliations
                [a ]Research Institute for Public Health, National Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [b ]Public Healthcare Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [c ]Institute of Environmental Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [d ]Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [e ]Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [f ]Yeongeon Student Support Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [g ]Department of Human Systems Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                [h ]Human Rights Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author at: Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Daehak-ro 103, Jongro-gu, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea.
                [1]

                Kyung-Shin Lee and Dong-Wook Lee contributed equally to this manuscript.

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                Publisher Item ID: S0165-0327(22)01035-7
                DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.029
                PMC ID: 9477787
                PubMed ID: 36116605
                SO-VID: 7275f87e-da16-4ee9-a619-150150db276d
                Copyright © © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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                Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

                History
                Date received : 22 June 2022
                Date revision received : 6 September 2022
                Date accepted : 13 September 2022
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                Subject: Research Paper

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: covid-19,depressive symptoms,sick leave,sickness presenteeism,worker
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: covid-19, depressive symptoms, sick leave, sickness presenteeism, worker

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