Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Tomoyuki KAWADA(1)
(1)Department of Public Health. Gunma University School of Medicine - Maebashi. Japan
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[Hygiene, Public Health & Preventive Medicine] |
[Occupational Health] |
In this paper, the author used a new problem-check list of subjective complaints. By using non-scaled items for Japanese, the author intended to know the characteristics of questionnaire and also planed to clarify its application to workers. Namely, subjective complaint was compared among different jobs. Male manufacturer complained symptoms relatively frequently than manager, which result was in concordance with our previous work (3). Haratani et al. (4) reported better psychological health level as the job position increased. From the demand-control-support model (5), the authors speculate that the control factor seems to be effective for disappearing symptoms and then makes the subjects mentally better.
Consoli et al. (6) made a short, acceptable and reliable instrument for self-assessment of perceived stress for workers. Fig. 2 Stress global score was correlated with socio-professional status: unskilled and skilled workers such as technicians exhibited significantly lower scores (lower stress) than clerical workers or engineers. Namely, the blue collars and technicians were under less stressful situation than white collars and engineers. In contrast, Ohta et al. (7) reported that blue-collar workers have much more physical complains and show depressive state than others fig. 3
Though the criteria of blue collar are sometimes difficult, stress may be partly derived from poor knowledge of coping.
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[Hygiene, Public Health & Preventive Medicine] |
[Occupational Health] |
