Metrics details. The instruments used to measure presenteeism are all flawed and only incompletely measure the concept of presenteeism in employees of the general population. As a result, the concept of presenteeism is not measured, and in most of these instruments, the population for which the instrument has been developed differs from the nursing population. The present research was conducted to design and validate the instrument for evaluating presenteeism in nursing.
The present study was part of an exploratory sequential mixed study. In this study, the instrument for measuring the level of presenteeism among nurses was developed and validated based on the results of the qualitative stage. In this study, an instrument containing 17 items and three dimensions imperfect cognitive presence, imperfect emotional presence, and imperfect movement presence with favorable validation characteristics was developed.
Therefore, the instrument was able to explain The intra-cluster correlation coefficient ICC was also reported as 0. This study helps health managers lay the groundwork for designing a system for measuring presenteeism among Iranian nurses using the developed instrument. Peer Review reports. In other words, this concept refers to those who are merely physically present at the workplace due to inappropriate conditions such as illness, poor mental condition, and extreme fatigue [ 2 ].
In other words, the internal capacities of the nurse in the cognitive, emotional, and movement fields potentially existing in them are not provided with an opportunity to be actualized [ 3 ]. Presenteeism among nurses will gradually lead to the destruction of the desired medical organization through its destructive consequences.
The medical organization suffering from these unhealthy conditions will lead to increased human errors, decreased productivity and job satisfaction, and various other unknown consequences [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. It's crucial to acknowledge the significance of measuring presenteeism, as its presence often leads to a lack of clinical skills and competencies in healthcare professionals.
