#  Health and Work Performance Questionnaire 

 



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**Letters to Potential Users of the HPQ:**  
\- [Background Information](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/hpq1_background-1_0.pdf "Background Information"): Ronald C. Kessler, July 1, 2002  
\- [Value Proposition](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/hpq2_value_proposition-1.pdf "Value Proposition"): Ronald C. Kessler, July 1, 2002  
\- [News notes: The Clinical Trials Version of the HPQ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/hpq3_clinical_trials.pdf "Clinical Trials"): Ronald C. Kessler, August 1, 2002  
\- [Commonly Asked Questions About the Market Surveys](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/HPQ_Common_Questions.pdf "Common Questions"): Ronald C. Kessler, August 1, 2002  
\- [HIPAA Guidelines and Participation in the Harvard Health Care and Work Productivity Initiative](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/hpq5_hippa.pdf "HIPPA Guidelines"): Paul D. Cleary and Ronald C. Kessler, August 20, 2002

**HPQ survey versions:**  
\- [HPQ Employee Version](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/HPQ%20Employee%20Version%2081810.pdf "HPQ Employee Version") - updated August 18, 2010  
\- [HPQ Short Form (Absenteeism and Presenteeism Questions with Scoring Rules)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/absenteeism%20presenteeism%20scoring%20050107-1.pdf "HPQ Short Form")   
\- [HPQ Clinical Trials 7-Day Version ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/survey_clinical_7day.pdf "HPQ Clinical Trials 7-Day")   
\- [HPQ Clinical Trials 28-Day Version](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/survey_clinical_28day.pdf "HPQ Clinical Trials 28-Day")

**HPQ scoring documents:**   
\- [HPQ Scoring Document](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/hpq_scoring_doc.pdf "HPQ Scoring Document"): Ronald C. Kessler, March 8, 2003   
[- HPQ Short Form (Absenteeism and Presenteeism Questions and Scoring Rules)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/absenteeism%20presenteeism%20scoring%20050107-1.pdf "HPQ Short Form")

**Translated versions of the HPQ survey:**   
\- [HPQ Employee Version (Portuguese for use in Brazil)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/HPQ_Portuguese_Final.pdf "HPQ Employee Brazil")  
\- [HPQ Clinical 7-Day Version (Spanish-US)](/resource/hpq-clinical-7-day-spanish-us "HPQ Clinical 7-Day Spanish-US")  
\- [HPQ Short Form (French)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/French_HPQ_ShortForm-1.pdf "HPQ Short Form French")  
\- [HPQ Short Form (Hebrew)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/HPQ_ShortForm_Hebrew.pdf "HPQ Short Form Hebrew")  
\- [HPQ Short Form (Japanese)](/sites/g/files/omnuum8166/files/2026-03/WMHJ-HPQ-SF_2018.pdf "HPQ Short Form Japanese")

For more information related to the HPQ contact <ronkadm@hcp.med.harvard.edu>.

**References**

Kessler, R.C., Barber, C., Beck, A.L., Berglund, P.A., Cleary, P.D., McKenas, D., Pronk, N.P., Simon, G.E., Stang, P.E., Üstün, T.B., Wang, P.S. (2003). The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ). *Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 45 (2)*, 156-174.

Kessler, R.C., Ames, M., Hymel, P.A., Loeppke, R., McKenas, D.K., Richling, D., Stang, P.E., Üstün, T.B. (2004). Using the WHO Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ) to evaluate the indirect workplace costs of illness. *Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine*, *46(Suppl. 6)*, S23-S37.