The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on sickness absenteeism among hospital workers.
| Autor: | de Paiva LG; Residência em Medicina do Trabalho, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil., Dos Santos WM; 2 Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Sustentabilidade e Responsabilidade Social, SP, Brazil., Dalmolin GL; Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT [Rev Bras Med Trab] 2022 Mar 30; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 65-71. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 30 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.47626/1679-4435-2022-787 |
| Abstrakt: | Introduction: Worker illness and, more recently, infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can manifest as sickness absence, considerably increasing absenteeism rates, which were already rising. Objectives: To determine the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on sickness absence rates among hospital workers and on the costs associated with them. Methods: A cross-sectional study with 1,229 workers at a University Hospital in the South of Brazil. Data were collected from absenteeism records for the period from September 2014 to December 2020 held in the Occupational Health Service database. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The mean sickness absenteeism rate was 3.25% and a significant increase was observed during the pandemic (5.10%) when compared to the pre-pandemic period (2.97%) (p = 0.02). During the pandemic, the mean number of sickness absence days was 2.03 times greater and the mean daily cost increased 2.49 times. Administrative assistants had the lowest relative risk (RR) of infection (RR: 0.5120; 95% confidence interval [95%CI] 0.2628-0.9974). In turn, the nursing team (RR: 1.37; 95%CI 1.052-1.787), physiotherapists (RR: 1.7148; 95%CI 1.0434-2.8183), and speech therapists (RR: 2.7090; 95%CI 1.5550-4.7195) were at greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Conclusions: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic led to an increase in sickness absence among workers in a hospital setting. The nursing team, physiotherapists, and speech therapists were at greatest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Competing Interests: Conflicts of interest: None |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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