(n.) The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absenteeism frequency and length were analysed during the period of 6 to 12 years prior to the onset of the health problem.
(2) Other high-profile absentees include Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Luke Shaw and Jordan Henderson.
(3) Sickness absenteeism, of hospital employees particularly, is a problem of concern due to its negative economic and morale impacts.
(4) Students present on the last two days of class were higher achievers and on subsequent evaluations gave higher ratings than did absentees, indicating that ratings administered on the last days would have produced a favorably biased response.
(5) Among chronic disorders affecting children, asthma ranks as a prominent cause of morbidity and school absenteeism.
(6) For this active population the vaccination rate is only 12% and the cost of absenteeism is potentially high.
(7) The evaluation was conducted for children only at the end of the project because of literacy problems, but mothers were administered questionnaires pre- and postproject with 8% absenteeism at the end of the project.
(8) We conclude that the patients treated for hypertension did not differ importantly from normotensive subjects with regard to illness-induced work absenteeism or other aspects of psychological well-being.
(9) The proportion of sickness absentees due to the accidents was 37.8% with 0.47 mean number of spells and 3.1 mean number of days lost per worker per year.
(10) We can deal with four or five absentees.” Whether Southgate would dare to choose Wilshere remains to be seen – the reality is he is acutely aware it would be going against Hodgson’s wishes – but the Arsenal player would certainly enhance the team’s chance of success judging by his performance in the 3-1 win against Scotland at Celtic Park.
(11) Where girls remain in school a lack of facilities causes widespread absenteeism each month, with the report showing that girls miss an average of 50 days of school each year because of menstruation.
(12) A connection is generally assumed between occupational health care (in Dutch 'bedrijfsgezondheidszorg', or BGZ) and a reduction in absenteeism.
(13) The purposes of this study were to evaluate the effect of a weekly exercise program on short-term sick leave (less than 50 days) attributable to back pain and to determine whether changes in absenteeism were related to changes in cardiovascular fitness.
(14) That, in combination with a greater percentage of the vote being cast via absentees than usual, caused a tilt in the exit poll result towards Democrat Tom Barrett.
(15) The majority of time lost from work as a result of absenteeism is classified as due to sickness although only a small proportion of the total can be regarded as a result of unfitness for work for medical reasons.
(16) Academic achievement, absenteeism, and athletic involvement (hockey) data were collected on 484 boys throughout British Columbia.
(17) The aim of the first stage of the study was to identify according to some demographic (sex, age, marital status) and occupational (occupational group, duration of hospital employment) variables those groups of hospital employees who are at higher risk of sickness absenteeism.
(18) Migraine is an appreciable economic concern due to frequent short absenteeism from work.
(19) Furthermore, school and industrial absenteeism are not very sensitive indicators of influenza-A activity; however, school absenteeism was a good index of influenza-B activity.
(20) Among both manual laborers and professional-technical workers, the number of days off work (at bed rest) prescribed by the physician was significantly related to greater absenteeism from work; the physician's diagnosis of an actual or possible disc problem was also related (P less than .05) to greater work loss among manual laborers.
Truancy
Definition:
(n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Youth born in 1962 (N = 124) who were placed in the facility were compared for number of truancies, background, and personality variables.
(2) It was found that truancy is associated with lower status occupations, less stable career patterns and more unemployment.
(3) When individual behaviors were analyzed, school-aged mothers were more likely than either young adult mothers or nonmothers to have reported school suspension, truancy, runaway, smoking marijuana, and fighting.
(4) Schooling in Nauru is compulsory until the age of 15 but truancy rates are as high as 60% and the standard of education and the facilities themselves is low .
(5) Although four Roundhay staff in high-visibility jackets used a loudhailer to deter truancy, dozens of their pupils joined the protesters for a two-mile march to join the main rally outside Leeds art gallery.
(6) Now pools face closure, at the same time as communities are becoming targets of a $28m anti-truancy intervention .
(7) To make useless attempts to stop adult truancy there is only one effective way: The prevention by mental hygiene of parent's psychological and ethic education which govern parental behavior to give early their offspring's warmth which is in them.
(8) They had more social disadvantages, such as a history of parental death and unemployment; they were more likely to be housewives with children; they had fewer qualifications, held jobs for shorter periods of time and had a history of truancy from school.
(9) Peer drug use, suspension at school, law infringements, truancy, conflict with parents, alcohol use and cigarette smoking were the relative risk factors investigated among 953 adolescents.
(10) Cluster analysis of information collected in a standard way indicated that there was a group of children with the features of 'school refusal' who often had generalized neurotic disorders as well and who were mostly girls, another group with the features of 'truancy' all of whom had conduct disorders who were mainly boys, and a third cluster of children who were usually 'truants' but less often psychiatrically disturbed.
(11) truancy, having run away from home, and contact with police or juvenile authorities, were associated with high odds ratios for intravenous drug abuse and for cannabis abuse.
(12) About 50% had a history of difficulties such as truancy, suspension, or expulsion.
(13) In-school surveillance, she says, is sold to parents and pupils as a panacea for bullying, vandalism, truancy and more, but its implications for privacy are too often ignored.
(14) Alcholism predictors included:becoming intoxicated at an early age; dropping out of school; truancy and expulsion from school; and having a father with a history of alcoholism or arrests.
(15) Out of the ten cases sampled for the study, nine were of school phobia and one of conduct disorder (truancy).
(16) Further, for females who eloped and were returned, the probability of a subsequent truancy was above 80%.
(17) Consequently, they are all socially promoted and are facing the sting of failure which leads to truancy and conflict with school authorities.
(18) There was no evidence that truancy in these circumstances is a homogenous condition.
(19) Possible disturbance in sex-role identification, child develops avoidance systems and rejects parents, homosexuality, emotional maladjustment, shyness, resentfulness, dependency, harder to train, not "manly enough", apprehension, immaturity, compensatory masculinity, anti-social behaviour such as truancy, damaging or destroying private or public property, having premarital and extra matital sex relations and theft of property.
(20) However, its work focuses on cutting truancy, antisocial behaviour and ending worklessness.