Work impairment
Work impairment, osteoarthritis, and health-related quality of life among employees in Japan
... The current study also revealed significant differences in current use of prescription medication for OA, with the presenteeism group using prescription medications (to alleviate OA symptoms) at a significantly higher ...
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Burden of constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom
... After matching for demographic and health history dif- ferences, patients with IBS-C in France reported signifi- cantly worse mean health status (MCS 39.77 versus 46.57, P , 0.0001; PCS 43.72 versus 47.95, P = 0.0016; ...
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Work Productivity and Activity Impairment in Colorectal Cancer Patients Treated with Capecitabine
... overall work productivity loss and impairment in regular (non work) daily activities, such as work around the house, shopping, child care, exercising, studying, were derived as follows: ...
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Quality of Life and Work Productivity Impairment of Patients with Allergic Occupational Rhinitis
... patients with allergic OR. Although some limitations were observed, such as the bias of self-administrated questionnaires with possible misunderstanding of questions or overestimation of scores, the use of a specific ...
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<p>Health-related quality of life outcomes and economic burden of inflammatory bowel disease in Japan</p>
... The IBD group had significantly lower MCS (44.7 vs 47.8), PCS (49.5 vs 53.4), and SF-6D (0.71 vs 0.76; for all, P< 0.001) scores, with the difference in scores exceeding the MIDs for all the measures. IBD respondents ...
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Association between pain severity, depression severity, and use of health care services in Japan: results of a nationwide survey
... make comparisons between the current analysis and previ- ous studies difficult. Calculating Cohen’s d from results of the earlier studies indicates an effect size for the presence of painful physical symptoms in the ...
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Validity of the work productivity and activity impairment questionnaire general health version in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... missed work hours or work impairment while working was used as a validation ...self-reported work hours missed measured by the WPAI:IBS version using retrospective diary among patients with ...
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Burden of comorbidities among Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation: a case study of dyspepsia
... more work impairment, primarily due to ...and work productivity, but also incurs great health care costs through its direct management or exacer- bation of other ...
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Impact of self-rated osteoarthritis severity in an employed population: Cross-sectional analysis of data from the national health and wellness survey
... Direct medical costs, which included physician visits, ER visits, and hospitalizations were estimated by multi- plying the units of resource categories for six months by two to project annual number of visits, and then ...
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Exacerbation-related impairment of quality of life and work productivity in severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
... the work productivity impact of COPD-related moderate and SEV exacerbations in patients with SEV/VSEV COPD, focusing on the chronic bronchitis ...and work productivity and activity impairment (using ...
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The burden of hepatitis C in Europe from the patients’ perspective: a survey in 5 countries
... in this sample was also significant, particularly regarding physical quality of life and health utility. HCV patients had consistently worse outcomes than matched controls across almost all outcome measures, though some ...
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Work productivity is associated with disease activity and functional ability in Italian patients with early axial spondyloarthritis: an observational study from the SPACE cohort
... the work status and productivity of patients with AS differ among these countries [9], decreasing the generalizability of the correlation between work productivity and dis- ease activity or physical ...
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COPD symptom burden: impact on health care resource utilization, and work and activity impairment
... Overall work impairment (absenteeism and presenteeism combined), as quantified by mean WPAI score, was ...from work and increasing CAT score (coefficient: ...impaired work time (presenteeism; ...
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Patient characteristics, treatment patterns, and health outcomes among COPD phenotypes
... Results: Patients with chronic bronchitis were significantly younger (51.38 years versus 63.24 years for COPD versus 63.30 years for emphysema, P , 0.05) and more likely to be employed (46.98% versus 23.81% for COPD ...
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Analysis of the relationship between psoriasis symptom severity and quality of life, work productivity, and activity impairment among patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis using structural equation modeling
... This is the first study to examine the relationship between the severity of specific psoriasis symptoms and a variety of personal and work-related health outcomes. In addition to determining that symptoms such as ...
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Longitudinal assessment of sleep disordered breathing in Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder
... Previous work has demonstrated the relatively high prevalence of risk factors for cognitive impairment, such as sleep disordered breathing (SDB) and obesity, in Vietnam War era veterans with post-traumatic ...
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A CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF IMPAIRMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY AGGRESSION WITH REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF HENRI PARENS
... particular criticisms when it comes to psychoanalytic case studies. The challenges to child psychotherapy research, relying largely as it has done on case studies which might be seen as anecdotal and unscientific, have ...
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Obesity in Germany and Italy: prevalence, comorbidities, and associations with patient outcomes
... were obese class III [Figure 1]). Although patients with T2D were predominantly male across all BMI categories, the sex distribution was more skewed among overweight and obese class I (P < 0.05; data not shown). With ...
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Clinical Determinants and One Year Follow-Up of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment following Ischemic Stroke.
... cognitive impairment is consistent with some previous reports [49, 51] and the literature reporting a relationship between WMHs and cognitive impairment ...
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Combining EEG signal processing with supervised methods for Alzheimer’s patients classification
... this work, we proposed an analysis procedure for EEG signals classification of samples affected by neurodegenar- ative diseases, ...Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer Disease (AD), with respect to ...
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