期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2019
卷号：26
期号：1
页码：1-7
DOI：10.26444/aaem/91471
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction. Ability to work is most often defined as a relationship between a person’s resources and requirements specific
to a particular type of work. It is the result of interaction between job requirements in terms of physical and mental strain,
capabilities and skills of the employee, as well as his/her health condition and own evaluation of functioning in a given
organizational and social situation.
Objective. The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the current value of the Work Ability Index (WAI) in a sample
of employees in Poland.
Materials and method. The study sample was selected purposefully from 422,000 employees covered by the largest
occupational health provider in Poland. The standard WAI questionnaire provided by CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web
Interview) methodology was voluntary and completed anonymously by 688 employees within 12 months (0.16% response
rate). The results were statistically analyzed using the Pearson’s chi-squared test and correlation coefficient, independentsample
T test and one-way analysis of variance (p < 0.05).
Results. It was found that the average value of WAI was 37.5 ± 7.7, and 37% of the participants represented low to moderate
ability to work. The results showed no significant correlation between the WAI value and its 7 compounds and demographic
variables. Nonetheless, a dependency between WAI level and industrial branch was observed.
Conclusions. Subjects with moderate and low WAI (1/3 of the study population) had particular indications to implement
prophylactic actions, especially for the health care employees and civil servants, whose ability to work may be subject to
accelerated deterioration.
关键词：work ability; occupational health services; work capacity evaluation; work performance; occupational therapists
