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Presenteeism among self-employed workers: Korean working conditions survey

OBJECTIVE: Presenteeism has become a public concern recently. Thus, we aimed to understand the relationship between self-employed workers and presenteeism using a nationally representative sample of Korean workers. METHODS: Using data from the Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, a to...

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Autores principales: Kim, Min-Su, Park, Jae Bum, Min, Kyoung-Bok, Lee, Kyung-Jong, Kwon, Kimin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25852942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40557-014-0032-1
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author Kim, Min-Su
Park, Jae Bum
Min, Kyoung-Bok
Lee, Kyung-Jong
Kwon, Kimin
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description OBJECTIVE: Presenteeism has become a public concern recently. Thus, we aimed to understand the relationship between self-employed workers and presenteeism using a nationally representative sample of Korean workers. METHODS: Using data from the Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, a total of 43,392 workers including paid employees and self-employed workers were analyzed. The effect of employment status on presenteeism was analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The independent variables were socioeconomic characteristics, working conditions, and working environments. RESULTS: Among the 43,392 workers, 34,783 were paid and 8,609 were self-employed. Self-employed workers were more likely to exhibit presenteeism than were paid workers. An elevated odds ratio of 1.27 (95% CI 1.19-1.36) was found for presenteeism among self-employed workers. CONCLUSION: Being self-employed was significantly related with exhibiting presenteeism. Additional research should investigate whether other factors mediate the relationship between employment status and presenteeism as well as ways to reduce presenteeism among self-employed workers.
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spelling pubmed-43877892015-04-08 Presenteeism among self-employed workers: Korean working conditions survey Kim, Min-Su Park, Jae Bum Min, Kyoung-Bok Lee, Kyung-Jong Kwon, Kimin Ann Occup Environ Med Research Article OBJECTIVE: Presenteeism has become a public concern recently. Thus, we aimed to understand the relationship between self-employed workers and presenteeism using a nationally representative sample of Korean workers. METHODS: Using data from the Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, a total of 43,392 workers including paid employees and self-employed workers were analyzed. The effect of employment status on presenteeism was analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The independent variables were socioeconomic characteristics, working conditions, and working environments. RESULTS: Among the 43,392 workers, 34,783 were paid and 8,609 were self-employed. Self-employed workers were more likely to exhibit presenteeism than were paid workers. An elevated odds ratio of 1.27 (95% CI 1.19-1.36) was found for presenteeism among self-employed workers. CONCLUSION: Being self-employed was significantly related with exhibiting presenteeism. Additional research should investigate whether other factors mediate the relationship between employment status and presenteeism as well as ways to reduce presenteeism among self-employed workers. BioMed Central 2014-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4387789/ /pubmed/25852942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40557-014-0032-1 Text en Copyright © 2014 Kim et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Presenteeism among self-employed workers: Korean working conditions survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4387789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25852942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40557-014-0032-1
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