Department of Health Promotion Medicine, Division of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, D3 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Qual Life Res. 2011 Apr;20(3):439-46. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9763-9. Epub 2010 Oct 14.
Presenteeism is the impaired work performance due to health problems. We aimed to develop a Presenteeism Scale for Students (PSS), and to reveal the existence of presenteeism among students.
Students (n = 5,701) in 4 national universities in Japan were recruited via the school-based health examination. Moreover, 122 students participated in a 2-week interval test-retest to examine the reliability and criterion-related validity of the PSS.
Of the students, 59.2% indicated some health problems. Allergy was most prevalent health problems, affecting 35.7% of the whole students. Students with emotional problems had higher degree of presenteeism than those with the other problems. The Cronbach's α of the work impairment score of the PSS was 0.90. The Spearman's coefficient for the test-retest score was 0.80 (P < 0.001). Regarding criterion-related validity, Spearman's coefficient between the work impairment score of the PSS and summary score of the SF-36 was -0.60 (P < 0.001).
These findings suggest that the PSS can be expected to be useful for assessment of students with presenteeism. Furthermore, we found that the majority of students have some health problems, and proposed that the issue of presenteeism on campus should be addressed.
Presenteeism 是指由于健康问题而导致工作表现受损。我们旨在开发学生 Presenteeism 量表（PSS），并揭示学生中存在 Presenteeism 的现象。
通过学校基础健康检查，在日本 4 所国立大学招募了 5701 名学生。此外，有 122 名学生参加了为期 2 周的重测检验，以检验 PSS 的可靠性和效标关联效度。
在所调查的学生中，59.2%的学生表示存在一些健康问题。过敏是最常见的健康问题，影响了全体学生的 35.7%。有情绪问题的学生比其他问题的学生表现出更高程度的 Presenteeism。PSS 工作障碍评分的 Cronbach's α 为 0.90。PSS 重测评分的 Spearman 系数为 0.80（P<0.001）。关于效标关联效度，PSS 工作障碍评分与 SF-36 综合评分之间的 Spearman 系数为-0.60（P<0.001）。
这些发现表明，PSS 有望用于评估有 Presenteeism 的学生。此外，我们发现大多数学生存在一些健康问题，并提出应在校园内解决 Presenteeism 问题。
