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Tomoyuki Kawada1, Harumi Ueda, Mikiko Hayashi
1Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Japan. kawada@nms.ac.jp
Objective:
Identifying the relationship between workload content and health complaints would likely aid the establishment of preventative health care strategies.
Participants:
The study population consisted of 137 male workers from a pharmaceutical company.
Methods:
The workloads of the target subjects were divided into three groups (A, B, and C+D) according to the scores of a self-administered questionnaire. The results of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ, 12 items version) for assessing health complaints were also analyzed.
Results:
The percentages of workers who reported feelings of stress in response to overtime work, irregular work, business trips, nighttime work, no rest and/or no nap, mental workload, and physical workload were 22.6%, 15.3%, 2.9%, 8.0%, 13.9%, 58.3%, and 18.2%, respectively. The significant odds ratio of workload predicting health complaints was 6.9 for subjects in group B and 13.9 for subjects in group C+D. Among them, the significant odds ratios of mental workload predicting health complaints and a positive GHQ were 5.7 and 4.0, respectively. Having no regular exercise also resulted in ORs of greater than 3 for health complaints and a positive GHQ.
Conclusions:
To cope with the health complaints of workers, mental health support by reducing individual workloads is recommended.
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