Sickness presence in the Swedish Police in 2007 and in 2010: Associations with demographic factors, job characteristics, and health

Taloyan, Marina; Kecklund, Göran; Thörn, Licia; Kjeldgård, Linnea; Westerlund, Hugo; Svedberg, Pia; Alexanderson, Kristina

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“…For sociodemographic factors, we found inconclusive evidence for the role of gender. This seems to reflect what is found in the general presenteeism literature in which some studies find males tend to exhibit more presenteeism [48, 49], and others females [50, 51]. There was some indication that age was associated with presenteeism, with those that were younger showing higher rates of presenteeism, again reflecting findings in the general presenteeism literature [52, 53] however the results were overall inconclusive.…”

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A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors

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Background Workplace presenteeism is common and leads to the spread of infectious diseases. Previous reviews have focused on presenteeism in relation to general physical or mental ill health. In this systematic review we identified the prevalence of, and reasons and risk factors for, presenteeism in relation to an infectious illness. Method We searched Medline, Scopus, Web of Science, PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES with terms relating to infectious illnesses and presenteeism at the work place or school; reference lists of relevant articles were also hand-searched. Result Our search yielded 3580 papers after deduplication. After title, abstract and full text screening, 23 papers reporting on 24 studies were included. Twenty-three studies were cross-sectional studies and one was prospective. The quality of included studies was relatively poor due to problems such as sampling and non-response bias. Presenteeism prevalence ranged from 35 to 97%. Self-reported reasons for presenteeism fell into three main themes: 1. Organisational factors (organisational policy, presenteeism culture, disciplinary action), 2. Job characteristics (lack of cover, professionalism, job demand), and 3. Personal reasons (burden on colleagues, colleague perceptions, threshold of sickness absence and financial concerns). Statistical risk factors fell into four themes: 1. Sociodemographic, 2. Health, 3. Influenza-related behaviour, and 4. Employment characteristics. Most of the risk factors had insufficient evidence to allow us to draw any firm conclusions, and evidence regarding gender and age was inconsistent. The risk factor with the most consistent findings concerned occupation type, suggesting that those who worked in the healthcare sector, and specifically physicians, were at a higher risk of infectious illness presenteeism. Conclusion Infectious illness presenteeism is common. To address the public health consequences, organisations should focus on promoting a positive working culture and developing sickness absence policies that reduce presenteeism. Further research is needed in non-health sector organisations and schools to identify risk factors related to different organisations, which can then be used to tailor interventions at the organisational and individual level. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12889-019-7138-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors

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“…Chronic exposure to stressors in this population is associated with neuro-endocrine changes (Violanti et al 2017), physical and mental illness (Arial et al 2010;Arnetz et al 2013;Garbarino et al 2013), and may lead to absenteeism (Magnavita and Garbarino 2013a) or presenteeism (Leineweber et al 2011;Taloyan et al 2016) in a crucial sector for the safety of society. The magnitude of these phenomena in police sector can be probably underestimated, since the limited data available in the literature as well as the heterogeneity of sick leave measure that not allow comparisons between studies (Körlin et al 2009).…”

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Work-related stress as a cardiovascular risk factor in police officers: a systematic review of evidence

Magnavita

Capitanelli

Garbarino

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Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…They are considered to be important capacities for high-risk professions and especially police officers to cope with and adapt to challenging situations caused by operational or potentially traumatic stressors (McCanlies et al 2014), organizational stressors (van der Velden et al 2010), and work-private life conflicts (Paton et al 2008). These stressors may put police officers at risk for mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, sleep problems, PTSD, sickness leave, suicidal thoughts and suicide, and substance abuse (Berger et al 2012;Lindsay 2008;Stanley et al 2016;Slaven et al 2011;Taloyan et al 2016) that may negatively impact their functioning as officers, such as reduced performance and productivity (Fox et al 2012;Levy-Gigi et al 2016).…”

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Resilience Among Police Officers: a Critical Systematic Review of Used Concepts, Measures, and Predictive Values of Resilience

Janssens

Velden

Taris³

et al. 2018

J Police Crim Psych

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Resilience, hardiness, and psychological capital are considered to be important capacities for police officers to cope with and adapt to challenging stressful and potentially traumatic situations. Despite their growing popularity, a systematic review assessing used concepts and instruments for these capacities and synthesizing the results of studies on the predictive values of resilience, hardiness, and psychological capital among police officers is absent. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap of scientific knowledge, and for this purpose, a systematic literature search was conducted using PsycInfo, Pubmed, and Web of Science. We identified 17 cross-sectional and 5 longitudinal studies. Results showed that resilience, hardiness, and psychological capital were studied mostly in relation to physical and mental health variables. No study focused on officers' professional functioning. In both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, associations with health variables were very weak to moderate, while cross-sectional studies mostly yielded stronger associations than longitudinal associations. In sum, we found no empirical support for the growing popularity.

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Sickness presence in the Swedish Police in 2007 and in 2010: Associations with demographic factors, job characteristics, and health

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors

A systematic review of infectious illness Presenteeism: prevalence, reasons and risk factors

Work-related stress as a cardiovascular risk factor in police officers: a systematic review of evidence

Resilience Among Police Officers: a Critical Systematic Review of Used Concepts, Measures, and Predictive Values of Resilience

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