Cargando…

Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)

INTRODUCTION: Work absenteeism is a significant issue and can be observed in terms of human resources management. Given the importance of staff practices, which are anticipated in every organization, the role of each employee in this system and the implications of their absence as well as the import...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin, Kabirzadeh, Azar, Rezazadeh, Esmaiel, Khariki, Mohammad Fallah, Asgari, Zolaykha, Bagherian Farahabadi, Ebrahim, Motamed, Nima, Siamian, Hasan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2013
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24511264
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2013.25.233-237
_version_ 1782302457792036864
author Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin
Kabirzadeh, Azar
Rezazadeh, Esmaiel
Khariki, Mohammad Fallah
Asgari, Zolaykha
Bagherian Farahabadi, Ebrahim
Motamed, Nima
Siamian, Hasan
author_facet Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin
Kabirzadeh, Azar
Rezazadeh, Esmaiel
Khariki, Mohammad Fallah
Asgari, Zolaykha
Bagherian Farahabadi, Ebrahim
Motamed, Nima
Siamian, Hasan
author_sort Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin
collection PubMed
description INTRODUCTION: Work absenteeism is a significant issue and can be observed in terms of human resources management. Given the importance of staff practices, which are anticipated in every organization, the role of each employee in this system and the implications of their absence as well as the importance of recovery time rest in fast recovery of staff and anticipated costs for their lost work days, thus this study is aimed to determine the extent and causes of medical absenteeism (sickness absence) of head staff of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted using medical absenteeism (sickness absence) persons happened in 2010. Research population was included all records of staff working in central departments of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. There was no sampling due to the importance of the issue. Studied variables were included age, gender, employment status, employees’ education, name of the disease, physician specialty in issuing the medical absence paper, leave issuing reference and department, position of the employee, number of absence days, number of absences, number of annual leave days. Also, data were gathered using a checklist, then were entered into the SPSS software and got analyzed using descriptive statistics. In order to respect the confidentiality, name of the doctors and employees weren’t mentioned publicly. RESULTS: Based on the results, 1200 employees were leaved the organization due to the sickness issue, which 957 (79.7%) of them were studied. The mean age for those employees was 39±7. Also, total average sick leave days and total sick leave days were 2±1 and 2571, respectively. 40.8 % ( 390 employees) were male and the rest were female. Moreover, 18.3% of sick leaves were issued for singles and the remained were for married employees. Regarding the employees’ education, 2% under diploma, 11.3% diploma, 7.8% upper diploma, 47.6% B.Sc., 14.6% MS.c and 15.85 had doctorate degree. Considering their position, 65%, 30.3%, 2.5% and 1.8% were experts, others, heads, and mangers, respectively. Furthermore, their employment status indicated that 62.3%, 18.1%, 16.8% and 2.8% of employees were employed in form of formal, short-term contract, long-term contract and other forms, respectively. Among the aspiratory diseases, 115 persons had got cold and 97 were infected to flu. The prevalence of other diseases was as follows: neck and back pain among the skeletal diseases (118 persons), fever and headache among the signs (71 persons) and diarrhea and vomiting among the infectious diseases (88 persons). CONCLUSION: According to the study results, due to the nature of staff work, physical problems, which are caused by doing mental works as well as low mobility, are rising among the employees. Of course, practicing ergonomic considerations, devoting hours in form of exercise break for staff can be effective in this regard. In order to address other diseases, vaster researches are needed with a concentration on exact reasons of work absenteeism.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3914745
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2013
publisher AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-39147452014-02-07 Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010) Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin Kabirzadeh, Azar Rezazadeh, Esmaiel Khariki, Mohammad Fallah Asgari, Zolaykha Bagherian Farahabadi, Ebrahim Motamed, Nima Siamian, Hasan Mater Sociomed Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Work absenteeism is a significant issue and can be observed in terms of human resources management. Given the importance of staff practices, which are anticipated in every organization, the role of each employee in this system and the implications of their absence as well as the importance of recovery time rest in fast recovery of staff and anticipated costs for their lost work days, thus this study is aimed to determine the extent and causes of medical absenteeism (sickness absence) of head staff of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. METHODS AND MATERIALS: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted using medical absenteeism (sickness absence) persons happened in 2010. Research population was included all records of staff working in central departments of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. There was no sampling due to the importance of the issue. Studied variables were included age, gender, employment status, employees’ education, name of the disease, physician specialty in issuing the medical absence paper, leave issuing reference and department, position of the employee, number of absence days, number of absences, number of annual leave days. Also, data were gathered using a checklist, then were entered into the SPSS software and got analyzed using descriptive statistics. In order to respect the confidentiality, name of the doctors and employees weren’t mentioned publicly. RESULTS: Based on the results, 1200 employees were leaved the organization due to the sickness issue, which 957 (79.7%) of them were studied. The mean age for those employees was 39±7. Also, total average sick leave days and total sick leave days were 2±1 and 2571, respectively. 40.8 % ( 390 employees) were male and the rest were female. Moreover, 18.3% of sick leaves were issued for singles and the remained were for married employees. Regarding the employees’ education, 2% under diploma, 11.3% diploma, 7.8% upper diploma, 47.6% B.Sc., 14.6% MS.c and 15.85 had doctorate degree. Considering their position, 65%, 30.3%, 2.5% and 1.8% were experts, others, heads, and mangers, respectively. Furthermore, their employment status indicated that 62.3%, 18.1%, 16.8% and 2.8% of employees were employed in form of formal, short-term contract, long-term contract and other forms, respectively. Among the aspiratory diseases, 115 persons had got cold and 97 were infected to flu. The prevalence of other diseases was as follows: neck and back pain among the skeletal diseases (118 persons), fever and headache among the signs (71 persons) and diarrhea and vomiting among the infectious diseases (88 persons). CONCLUSION: According to the study results, due to the nature of staff work, physical problems, which are caused by doing mental works as well as low mobility, are rising among the employees. Of course, practicing ergonomic considerations, devoting hours in form of exercise break for staff can be effective in this regard. In order to address other diseases, vaster researches are needed with a concentration on exact reasons of work absenteeism. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2013-11-24 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3914745/ /pubmed/24511264 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2013.25.233-237 Text en © 2013 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Mohseni Saravi, Beyamin
Kabirzadeh, Azar
Rezazadeh, Esmaiel
Khariki, Mohammad Fallah
Asgari, Zolaykha
Bagherian Farahabadi, Ebrahim
Motamed, Nima
Siamian, Hasan
Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title_full Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title_fullStr Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title_short Prevalence and Causes of Medical Absenteeism Among Staff (Case Study at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences: 2009-2010)
title_sort prevalence and causes of medical absenteeism among staff (case study at mazandaran university of medical sciences: 2009-2010)
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24511264
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2013.25.233-237
work_keys_str_mv AT mohsenisaravibeyamin prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT kabirzadehazar prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT rezazadehesmaiel prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT kharikimohammadfallah prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT asgarizolaykha prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT bagherianfarahabadiebrahim prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT motamednima prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010
AT siamianhasan prevalenceandcausesofmedicalabsenteeismamongstaffcasestudyatmazandaranuniversityofmedicalsciences20092010