Whereas the HCA reflects lost productive potential, the FCA measures actual production losses.
Mean lost productive time per employee reporting any productivity loss (absenteeism and/or presenteeism) was 6.7 hours/week.
HALT captured lost productive time (days lost completely, and days of <50 % productivity) from paid and household work because of headache, and missed social and leisure activities [24].
After probing for patients' alternative time use, market prices for agriculture and livestock products and Tanzanian minimum wages were used to value lost productive working hours during which patients are at health facilities receiving CVD preventive services.
Comorbid anxiety or depression did not add to lost productive time, but weak associations existed in all headache types between lost productive time and the probability of depression or, less so, anxiety.
Lost paid workdays and lost household workdays were summed separately, and then totalled for lost productive time.
However, presenteeism, generally defined as reduced productivity while at work, and suggested to be the primary source of lost productive time [ 17] was not examined.
total lost productive time – the sum of (a) and (b).
Disability was assessed as lost productive time by HALT index.
We focus on symptom burden, disability and lost productive time.
Therefore it is likely that lost productive worktime was underestimated, especially among women.
