Psychometric properties of the Work Limitations Questionnaire applied to nursing workers.
Samuel Andrade de Oliveira, Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos, João Marôco and 2 others
PMID 34468623WHAT IT FOUND
The Work Limitations Questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool for measuring presenteeism in Brazilian nursing workers.
It identified significant productivity loss driven by mental, interpersonal, and time management demands, with physical demands showing weaker correlations.
Key findings
01The Work Limitations Questionnaire showed adequate validity and reliability for assessing presenteeism in nursing workers.
02Productivity loss was primarily associated with Output Demands, Mental-Interpersonal Demands, and Time Management domains.
03The Physical Demands domain showed weak correlations with other domains, possibly due to inverted item wording.
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What it does not show
The cross-sectional design prevents establishing causal relationships. Non-probabilistic sampling limits the generalizability of results. The sample size was insufficient to test measurement invariance. The weak correlation of the Physical Demands domain may be due to confusing inverted item wording.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the low scores in the Physical Demands domain as evidence that physical health issues are not contributing to presenteeism in this group. The authors suggest this result may be an artifact of the questionnaire's inverted wording for this specific domain, which can confuse respondents.