Relationship between low evaluation by recipients under 40 years old of health interviews by occupational health nurses and deterioration in health checkup results over one year.

Improvement of an unhealthy lifestyle decreases the risk of incidence and mortality from lifestyle-related disease. One method for the improvement of an unhealthy lifestyle is interviewing for health and consultation regarding a healthy lifestyle to recipients of health checkups by public health nurses. Original articles in occupational health for recipients' evaluation in health checkups as longitudinal studies are rare.

Difference between consciousness of intervention for improving lifestyle by public health nurses and recipients of a company health check.

Improving an unhealthy lifestyle decreases risk of incidence and death of lifestyle-related diseases. Consultation about a healthy lifestyle to recipients of health checkups conducted by public health nurses is one method for such improvement. The objective in the present study was to investigate the difference between consciousness of intervention by (1) the public health nurses who conducted consultations with recipients of health checkups and (2) the recipients who were consulted by the public health nurses.