The influence of Type 2 diabetes on work productivity and quality of life
| Autor: | Jui-Hsiang Li, 李瑞祥 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 98 Employee productivity is one of the major factors to the success of enterprises. However, the employee characteristics which influence productivity include age, gender, education, marital status, and health conditions. How to enhance the quality of human resources to improve productivity is a matter of concern for an enterprise. It is indicated in many foreign studies that chronic diseases including diabetes and its complications would increase absence and reduce worker’s productivity, but similar studies are seldom carried out in Taiwan. Diabetes is one of the primary health problems in our country and a dramatic increasing incidence rate of hyperglycemia in age group between forty and fifty-nine is found in recent years. Whether diabetes reduces individual productivity and quality of life in our enterprises becomes an important issue to be aware of. The purpose of this study is to realize the relationship between diabetes and productivity loss /quality of life in our enterprises. Convenience samples were recruited from clinics and health examination in Keelung Hospital and nearby enterprises. A total of 100 type 2 diabetic patients (defined as case group) and 132 persons without diabetes (defined as control group) were recruited with informed consent. All samples were full time job workers aged between 18 and 65, and HPQ and SF-36 were included in the questionnaire to evaluate if diabetes reduced the productivity and quality of life. The results showed diabetes could reduce work productivity. After adjustment for sex, age and marital status, people who work more than forty hours per week had low absolute presenteeism (β= -6.082, P=0.043). Diabetes also reduced quality of life. After adjustment for sex, age, salary and marital status, both total physical component score and total mental component score had significantly negative association with diabetes in linear regression model(β= -41.86, P |
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