Shepherd Martha, Ho Pen-Che, Harris-Shapiro Jon, Liu Hau, Bravata Dena, Whaley Christopher, Hines David
From the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (M.S.); Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville, Tennessee (M.S., D.H.); Cylinder Health, Chicago, Illinois (P.-C.H., D.B.); Benegration, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (J.H.-S.); NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York (H.L.); Stanford University, Stanford, California (D.B.); and Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island (C.W.).
J Occup Environ Med. 2025 Sep 1;67(9):e612-e615. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003441. Epub 2025 May 7.
60 to 70 million people in the US have chronic gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. Employers bear a significant economic burden for GI conditions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a digital digestive care program on absenteeism.
Using propensity score matching between participants and nonparticipants, we evaluated sick days of public school system employees who were offered a digital digestive care program as part of their health benefits.
Baseline annual sick days were comparable for the 237 participants and 400 nonparticipants. Among employees aged 50 years and older, during the intervention period, participants had significantly fewer sick days than nonparticipants (1.7 days [SD, 4.2], P = 0.02), an approximate direct salary savings of $672/employee annually.
Digital digestive care is promising for decreasing sick days among older workers.
美国有6000万至7000万人患有慢性胃肠疾病。雇主因胃肠疾病承担着巨大的经济负担。本研究的目的是评估数字消化护理计划对旷工的影响。
通过对参与者和非参与者进行倾向得分匹配，我们评估了作为健康福利一部分而获得数字消化护理计划的公立学校系统员工的病假天数。
237名参与者和400名非参与者的基线年度病假天数相当。在50岁及以上的员工中，在干预期间，参与者的病假天数明显少于非参与者（1.7天[标准差，4.2]，P = 0.02），每位员工每年大约直接节省工资672美元。
数字消化护理对于减少老年工人的病假天数很有前景。
