Abstract
[Purpose] We examined the incidence of presenteeism among care workers and analyzed the influence of low back pain and psychological factors on it. [Subjects] The subjects were 139 care workers. [Method] We assessed psychological factors, low back pain intensity, and presenteeism of each of the subjects. We modeled the results and examined the goodness of fit and relationships among the items assessed using path analysis. [Results] Presenteeism was reported by 66.9% of the subjects. The goodness of fit of the revised model was satisfactorily high. [Conclusion] Presenteeism is commonplace among care workers, and we confirmed that psychological factors have a significant influence on this problem.
