title: Employment status matters: a statewide survey of quality-of-life, prevention behaviors, and absenteeism and presenteeism.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate quality-of-life (QoL), primary care, health insurance, prevention behaviors, absenteeism, and presenteeism in a statewide sample of the unemployed, self-employed, and organizationally employed.
  
  
  METHODS
  A statewide survey of 1602 Iowans included items from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention QoL and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey prevention behavior questionnaires used to assess employee well-being; their indicator results are related to World Health Organization's Health and Work Performance Questionnaire-derived absenteeism and presenteeism scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The unemployed exhibited poorer QoL and prevention behaviors; the self-employed exhibited many better QoL scores due largely to better prevention behaviors than those employed by organizations. Higher QoL measures and more prevention behaviors are associated with lower absenteeism and lower presenteeism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Employment status is related to measures of well-being, which are also associated with absenteeism and presenteeism.
authors.affiliation: From the Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
authors.forename: James A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.forename: Kevin M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Leon F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Burmeister
authors.forename: Matt J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Lozier
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amendola
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Lind
authors.forename: Arlinda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: KcKeen
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Slater
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Diane S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Rohlman
authors.forename: Brenda S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Buikema
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult