Publications by authors named "Hiroto Akiyama"

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  • The study aimed to explore how team-level job crafting affects nurses' mental health and job performance, tracking nurses over a six-month period to see correlations between team job crafting and various work-related outcomes.* -
  • Data was collected from 2,478 nurses across five hospitals in Japan, using hierarchical linear modeling to assess the relationship between initial team job crafting and work engagement, performance, psychological distress, and turnover intention.* -
  • Results showed that while initial team job crafting did not significantly impact these outcomes at later time points, an increase in a specific type of job crafting focused on team growth was positively related to improved work engagement among nurses.*
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Aim: Previous studies evaluated the association between eating alone and mental health mainly in older people and adolescents. This study aimed to evaluate the association between dinner frequency with others and psychological distress during the COVID-19 outbreak among the Japanese working population.

Methods: Data were acquired from a prospective online cohort study (the Employee Cohort Study in the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan) conducted in February 2021 as a cross-sectional design.

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Objective: Work engagement is a key concept because of its positive association with physical/mental health, job performance, and well-being. This study aims to examine the relationship between organizational-level gratitude (collective gratitude) as a work climate and work engagement.

Methods: Utrecht Work Engagement Scale measured work engagement.

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Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the association between pre-pregnancy menstrual cycle characteristics (i.e. cycle-length variability and cycle length) and antenatal depression.

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We report the case of a solid-pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the head of the pancreas causing occlusion of the main pancreatic duct (MPD) and marked pancreatic atrophy distal to the tumor disproportionate to the tumor size. A 15-yr-old girl was diagnosed with 5-cm solid-pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreatic head with marked distal pancreatic atrophy. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography demonstrated obstruction of the MPD in the pancreatic head.

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