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The primary outcome was self-reported sickness presenteeism, defined as attending work despite illness over the past 12\u00a0months. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the association between the COVID-19 period and sickness presenteeism after adjusting for demographic characteristics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The prevalence of sickness presenteeism significantly decreased from 20.9% (before the pandemic) to 17.2% (during the pandemic), and it further decreased to 6.9% (after the pandemic). After adjusting for demographic and workplace characteristics, the odds of sickness presenteeism were significantly lower during the pandemic (odds ratio [OR] 0.84; 95% CI, 0.80-0.87) than before. Furthermore, the odds further decreased after the pandemic (OR 0.35; 95% CI, 0.33-0.37) relative to during the pandemic.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Sickness presenteeism decreased across the COVID-19 pandemic periods in South Korea. This decrease was observed in relation to the implementation of government-mandated sick leave policies for infectious disease control, suggesting an association between policy enforcement and decreasing sickness presenteeism.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/joccuh\/uiaf076","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,26]],"date-time":"2025-12-26T01:25:47Z","timestamp":1766712347000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Decreasing prevalence in sickness presenteeism before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from repeated Korean national surveys"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"68","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5599-4490","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ki-Hun","family":"Hong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital , 110 Deokan-ro, Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do 14353 ,","place":["Republic of 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