The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)

2003/02/01 by Ronald C. Kessler, Catherine Barber, Arne Beck +8 · 5 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · #Occupational Health and Safety Research #Workplace Health and Well-being #Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

paper · doi:10.1097/01.jom.0000052967.43131.51

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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.

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