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Table 4 Items from WHO health and work performance questionnaire

From: Factors affecting mental fitness for work in a sample of mentally ill patients

Characteristics

Fit

n 61 (%)

Unfit

n 23 (%)

Modified

n 32 (%)

P value

An accident or event that caused either damage, work delay, a near miss, or a safety risk in the last month

18(29.5%)

12 (52.2%)

20(62.5%)

0.04

An experience of work failure at the last month

38 (62.3%)

8(34.8%)

22(68.8%)

0.05

doing no work at most of the work time

13(21.3%)

18 (78.3%)

17(53.1%)

0.03

Work performance at last year ≥ 7 out of 10

7 (11.5%)

15 (65.2%)

5 (15.6%)

0.003

Better overall job performance during the past year in comparisons to other workers

5 (8.2%)

16 (69.6%)

4 (12.5%)

0.001

Worse overall job performance during the past year in comparison to other workers

50 (82%)

3 (5%)

23 (71.9%)

0.001

  1. n, number of subjects; %, percentage
  2. P value is significant at ≤ 0.05