Workplace productivity loss as a result of absenteeism and presenteeism in chronic and episodic migraine: a scoping review

Workplace productivity loss as a result of absenteeism and presenteeism in chronic and episodic migraine: a scoping review Doxa Papakonstantinou, Constantinos Tomos International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Migraine consists of a chronic neurological disorder with episodic attacks. Migraine prevails in people of their most productive working age, followed by difficulties at work and social functions. This scoping review aims to analyze the economic burden on a workplace due to chronic migraine compared to episodic migraine by focusing on the indirect costs of absenteeism and presenteeism and addressing the research gaps in this field. According to the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews, a comprehensive electronic literature search was carried out from 2010 to 2020 using the Google Scholar and Medline/PubMed databases. The findings confirm that chronic and episodic migraine harm the workplace's productivity, escalating with the frequency of migraine attacks. Differences occur between presenteeism and absenteeism rates among chronic and episodic migraine, and higher presenteeism than absenteeism rates. This review sheds new light on the indirect burden of migraine. It shows the gaps in the explored research area and the need for more targeted and extended research that could provide a deeper understanding of the workplace's hidden costs of migraine. The issues discussed are im...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Source Type: research