Prevalence of Comorbidity and Its Effects on Sickness-Absenteeism among Brazilian Legislative Civil Servants

Francisco Edison Sampaio (), Manuel Joaquim Silva Oliveira, João Areosa and Emílio Facas
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Francisco Edison Sampaio: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Manuel Joaquim Silva Oliveira: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
João Areosa: Higher School of Business Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, 2914-503 Setubal, Portugal
Emílio Facas: Department of Social and Work Psychology, University of Brasilia (UNB), Brasília 70910-900, Brazil

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: Studies have shown there is an association of chronic diseases with working days lost, considering the impact of these pathologies on the levels of vulnerability of the individual’s health, with an increased risk of work disability. This article is part of a more comprehensive investigation on the sickness absenteeism of civil servants of the legislative branch in Brazil, with the purpose of determining the comorbidity index (CI) of the individuals and its correlation with days of absence from work. Sickness absenteeism was counted from the data of 37,690 medical leaves, from 2016 to 2109, involving 4149 civil servants. The self-administered comorbidity questionnaire (SCQ) was used to estimate the CI, based on the diseases or chronic health problems declared by the participants. The average number of working days lost per servant per year was 8.73 days, totaling 144,902 days of absence. The majority of the servants (65.5%) declared at least one chronic health condition. A significant association between the CI scores and working days lost was observed (r = 0.254, p -value < 0.01), thus showing that the CI may be an important predictor of sickness absenteeism. Chronic diseases or health problems are a characteristic of the general population, often affecting working capacity.

Keywords: chronic disease; comorbidity; multimorbidity; sickness absenteeism; comorbidity index; civil servant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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