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

By Ronald C. Kessler, Catherine Barber, A. Beck, P. Berglund, B. M, P. Cleary, D. McKenas, N. Pronk, Gregory E. Simon, Paul E. Stang and 2 more. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2003

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Pharmacology, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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In General Health Professions

1. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
2. Toon W. Taris
3. I. V. Beek
4. F. Fraccaroli
5. Cristian Balducci
6. V. Brenninkmeijer
7. Arnold B. Bakker
8. M. O’driscoll

In Pharmacology

1. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
2. Brandon H Hidaka

In Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

1. Wilmar B. Schaufeli
2. Émilie Lapointe
3. M. O’driscoll
4. H. Cooper–Thomas
5. Alexandre J. S. Morin
6. Tim Bentley
7. Toon W. Taris
8. Cristian Balducci

Citations in the corpus

• Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) A Cross-Cultural Analysis (2010, methodology): “Self-rated work performance was assessed by the following question taken from the WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ; Kessler et al., 2003): “On a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst performance and 10 is the top performance, how would you rate your overall job performance on…”
• Does daily commuting behavior matter to employee productivity? (2019, methodology): “Decomposition questions helped to facilitate active memory search preparing for answering complex survey questions, and this is one of the strategies in the design of HPQ to improve response accuracy (Kessler et al., 2003).”
• Emotional labour profiles: Associations with key predictors and outcomes (2018, methodology): “Performance was assessed with a single item developed by Kessler et al. (2003), and asking workers to indicate “On a scale ranging from 1 to 10, how would you rate you work performance over the past four weeks (with 0 reflecting the worst work performance anyone could have and 10 the performance of…”
• Heavy work investment: Its motivational make-up and outcomes (2013, methodology): “Finally, job performance was measured with an item from the World Health Organization Health and work performance questionnaire (HPQ) (Kessler et al., 2003).”
• The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) (2004, background): “The second section of the WMH-CIDI that assesses external impairment is the section on employment, which includes the WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) (Kessler, Barber et al., 2003).”
• Neutralizing workplace bullying: the buffering effects of contextual factors (2013, methodology): “Individuals’ perceptions of their job performance were measured with three items asking them to rate their overall job performance compared to others (Kessler et al., 2003).”
• Prevalence and effects of mood disorders on work performance in a nationally representative sample of U.S. workers. (2006, methodology): “The HPQ uses self-reports about absenteeism (missed days of work) and presenteeism (low performance while at work transformed to lost work day equivalents) to generate a summary measure of overall lost workdays in the month before the interview.”