Rahme Diana V, Razzouk Gabrial N, Musharrafieh Umayya M, Rahi Amal C, Akel Madelene M
Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Arch Environ Occup Health. 2006 Nov-Dec;61(6):279-84. doi: 10.3200/AEOH.61.6.279-284.
The authors studied the rate of sickness-related absence of employees at a tertiary care center. They examined sickness-related absence records of employees, including nurses, food service workers, housekeeping, and security personnel, in a university teaching hospital in Lebanon over a period of 1 year. These departments included 1,010 employees, of which 47% took sickness absences during the study period. In all, 49.02% of the nursing employees, 43.67% of the food service workers, 37.79% of the housekeeping employees, and 47.5% of the protection/security workers took sickness-related absences. Employees in younger age groups took the majority of sicknessrelated absences; in general, these constituted short-duration sickness-related absences (relative to those taken by emploees in older age groups; dietary personnel were the exception to this pattern). Principal causes of sickness-related absences were respiratory illness and musculoskeletal problems. The authors observed that distribution of sickness-related absences among the departments studied was similar to the actual distribution of employees. They considered reasons for sicknessrelated absences as pertinent to each category.
作者研究了一家三级护理中心员工与疾病相关的缺勤率。他们调查了黎巴嫩一家大学教学医院员工（包括护士、餐饮服务人员、保洁人员和安保人员）长达1年的与疾病相关的缺勤记录。这些部门共有1010名员工，其中47%在研究期间因病缺勤。总体而言，49.02%的护理人员、43.67%的餐饮服务人员、37.79%的保洁人员以及47.5%的安保人员因病缺勤。年龄较小的员工群体占与疾病相关缺勤的大多数；总体而言，这些缺勤为短期与疾病相关的缺勤（相对于年龄较大的员工群体；饮食服务人员是这一模式的例外）。与疾病相关缺勤的主要原因是呼吸系统疾病和肌肉骨骼问题。作者观察到，在所研究的部门中，与疾病相关缺勤的分布与员工的实际分布相似。他们认为与疾病相关缺勤的原因与每个类别相关。
