title: The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ).
abstract: This report describes the World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ), a self-report instrument designed to estimate the workplace costs of health problems in terms of reduced job performance, sickness absence, and work-related accidents-injuries. Calibration data are presented on the relationship between individual-level HPQ reports and archival measures of work performance and absenteeism obtained from employer archives in four groups: airline reservation agents (n = 441), customer service representatives (n = 505), automobile company executives (n = 554), and railroad engineers (n = 850). Good concordance is found between the HPQ and the archival measures in all four occupations. The paper closes with a brief discussion of the calibration methodology used to monetize HPQ reports and of future directions in substantive research based on the HPQ.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Ronald C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Kessler
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barber
authors.forename: Arne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Berglund
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Cleary
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McKenas
authors.forename: Nico
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pronk
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stang
authors.forename: T Bedirhan
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Ustun
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace; D014944:World Health Organization