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Published on: August 8, 2019
A cross-sectional study of the association between working hours and sleep duration among the Japanese working
Tadahiro Ohtsu1, Yoshitaka Kaneita, Sayaka Aritake
1Department of Public Health, Showa University School of Medicine.
Objectives:
This study aimed to clarify the association between long working hours and short sleep duration among Japanese workers.
Methods:
We selected 4,000 households from across Japan by stratified random sampling and conducted an interview survey of a total of 662 participants (372 men; 290 women) in November 2009. Logistic regression analyses were performed using "sleep duration <6 hours per day" as a dependent variable to examine the association between working hours/overtime hours and short sleep duration.
Results:
When male participants who worked for ≥7 but <9 hours per day were used as a reference, the odds ratio (OR) for short sleep duration in those who worked for ≥ 11 hours was 8.62 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.94-18.86). With regard to overtime hours among men, when participants without overtime were used as a reference, the OR for those whose period of overtime was ≥ 3 hours but <4 hours was 3.59 (95% CI: 1.42-9.08). For both men and women, those with long weekday working hours tended to have a short sleep duration during weekdays and holidays.
Conclusions:
It is essential to avoid working long hours in order to prevent short sleep duration.
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