The prevalence and factors contributing to presenteeism with COVID-19 ICHEJournal BUMedicine harvardmed BUSPH presenteeism covid COVID19 SARSCoV2 prevalence factors sick healthcareworkers HCW hospital epidemiology publichealth
By Neha MathurApr 14 2023Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent article published in the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology Journal, researchers conducted an observational cohort study among all healthcare workers of the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System in the United States of America between December 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021.
Numerous studies reported nosocomial COVID-19 outbreaks due to symptomatic healthcare professionals. Yet, there is a lack of studies investigating the incidence of sickness presenteeism in SARS-CoV-2-infected HCWs and the rationale behind doing so. At the time of the COVID-19 diagnosis, the team asked all HCWs to fill out a structured health interview, which helped them assess the time of symptoms onset, if present, and their number of working days on campus while symptomatic.
Of all symptomatic HCWs, 26% worked for at least some time during a day when diagnosed but returned to work for additional days with symptoms. A total of 52 HCWs, i.e., 20.4% of HCWs, completed the follow-up survey, wherein 79% self-reported working in the previous year with a minimum of one COVID-19 symptom. Over 50% of respondents self-reported working with fatigue, headache, and nasal symptoms.
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