Evaluation of the relationship between physical activity and fatigue with presenteeism

Objective: This research aims that, evaluate the relationship between Sociodemographic characteristics, body mass index, physical activity, and fatigue with presenteeism. Materials and Methods: In this study, 53 individuals selected as the sample from academic and administrative staff of Bahcesehir university whose ages between 18 and 65 with their job description requires working at least 5 days a week and an average of 8 hours a day. Demographic data form (DDF), fatigue severity scale (FSS), international physical activity scale (IPAQ) and Stanford presenteeism scale (SPS) were used with quantitative research method. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS 25.0 package program. Results: Thirty-five women and 18 men whose SPS score were 21.11±4.68, FSS score were 3.80±1.27, energy expenditure according to IPAQ were 1966.20±1767.78 (METs) and BMI were 24.79±4.96 kg/ m2 participated in this study. There were negative significant weak correlation between SPS with FSS (p=0.03, p<0.05; r=-0.29; 0.2<r<0.4) and positive significant weak correlation between SPS with BMI (p=0.00, p<0.05; r=0.39, 0.2<r<0.4). There was not any significant correlation between IPAQ with SPS, FSS, BMI (p>0.05). Conclusion: At the end of this study, it was seen that insufficient or irregular physical activities did not affect presenteeism. Researchers recommended that healthy living programs must be planned individually by the professional health expertise to protect employees from presenteeism. Addition that, these must be include regular physical activity components, which careful about the fatigue and protection from risk of injuries, to control of health-related risk factors.