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Obesity, diet quality and absenteeism in a working population

Overview of attention for article published in Public Health Nutrition, May 2016
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Title
Obesity, diet quality and absenteeism in a working population
Published in
Public Health Nutrition, May 2016
DOI 10.1017/s1368980016001269
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Authors

Sarah Fitzgerald, Ann Kirby, Aileen Murphy, Fiona Geaney

Abstract

The relationship between workplace absenteeism and adverse lifestyle factors (smoking, physical inactivity and poor dietary patterns) remains ambiguous. Reliance on self-reported absenteeism and obesity measures may contribute to this uncertainty. Using objective absenteeism and health status measures, the present study aimed to investigate what health status outcomes and lifestyle factors influence workplace absenteeism. Cross-sectional data were obtained from a complex workplace dietary intervention trial, the Food Choice at Work Study. Four multinational manufacturing workplaces in Cork, Republic of Ireland. Participants included 540 randomly selected employees from the four workplaces. Annual count absenteeism data were collected. Physical assessments included objective health status measures (BMI, midway waist circumference and blood pressure). FFQ measured diet quality from which DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) scores were constructed. A zero-inflated negative binomial (zinb) regression model examined associations between health status outcomes, lifestyle characteristics and absenteeism. The mean number of absences was 2·5 (sd 4·5) d. After controlling for sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics, the zinb model indicated that absenteeism was positively associated with central obesity, increasing expected absence rate by 72 %. Consuming a high-quality diet and engaging in moderate levels of physical activity were negatively associated with absenteeism and reduced expected frequency by 50 % and 36 %, respectively. Being in a managerial/supervisory position also reduced expected frequency by 50 %. To reduce absenteeism, workplace health promotion policies should incorporate recommendations designed to prevent and manage excess weight, improve diet quality and increase physical activity levels of employees.

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Unknown 218 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 18%
Student > Bachelor 34 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 8%
Researcher 17 8%
Student > Postgraduate 10 5%
Other 23 11%
Unknown 76 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 40 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 10%
Social Sciences 13 6%
Sports and Recreations 11 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 5%
Other 37 17%
Unknown 85 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 January 2024.
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#1,334,438
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Outputs from Public Health Nutrition
#449
of 3,884 outputs
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#24,213
of 345,993 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Health Nutrition
#11
of 57 outputs
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