Work Psychology and Occupational Health: An Editorial.

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted workers' health, particularly their mental well-being [...

Depressive symptoms and related factors among workers in care institutions for older persons in Japan: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and related factors among workers in care institutions for older persons in Japan. In addition, we sought to identify the relationships between high (i.e.

Precarious Employment Is Not Associated with Increased Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study in Care Service Workers of Japan.

Some epidemiological studies with a large number of subjects, like a national health study, reported that precarious employment was associated with increased depressive symptoms, but this hypothesis may not be applicable to precarious workers of all industry types. We examined the association between precarious employment and depressive symptoms in light of work-related stress in care work environments. The self-administered questionnaire, composed of the Job Content Questionnaire based on the demand-control-support model and the Center of Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), was distributed, and a total of 1,338 permanent and 531 precarious employees responded to it with complete forms.

Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms and Related Factors in Japanese Employees: A Comparative Study between Surveys from 2007 and 2010.

Aims. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and their related factors in Japan. The results were analyzed to identify the relationship between high scores on the CES-D, sociodemographic status, and employment-related variables.

Prevalence of depressive symptoms and related factors in Japanese employees as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).

This study aimed to examine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and related factors in Japan. For this purpose, a questionnaire including the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was administered to employees from Akita prefecture, Japan. The cutoff point for CES-D scores was 16 or above (high scorers).

Posttraumatic stress in professional firefighters in Japan: rescue efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Dai-Shinsai).

Introduction: Firefighters are often exposed to stressful duty-related events and may experience extreme trauma. Such work-related stress can result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is therefore important to understand the traumatic stress experienced by firefighters in the course of their work and to promote appropriate intervention when necessary.

The Relationship between Individual Personality Traits (Internality-Externality) and Psychological Distress in Employees in Japan.

This study examines the relationship between the internality-externality (I-E) scale as an indicator of coping styles and the Kessler 6 (K6) scale as an indicator of psychological distress and analyzes the effects of sociodemographic and employment-related factors on this relationship. Employees from Akita prefecture in Japan were invited to complete self-administered questionnaires. A uniform pattern of findings emerged in the relationship between the two scales as follows: all the significant correlations were negative, that is, as the I-E score increased, the K6 score decreased.

Prevalence of psychological distress, as measured by the Kessler 6 (K6), and related factors in Japanese employees.

The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of and related factors for psychological distress among employees. The employees in Akita prefecture, Japan, were invited to complete the Kessler 6 (K6). A value of 13 or higher on the K6 scale indicated high psychological distress.

Progression of P300 in a patient with bilateral hippocampal lesions.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of hippocampal damages on P300 of event-related potentials (ERPs).

Methods: ERPs were recorded over about 8 months using the auditory oddball paradigm in a patient with bilateral hippocampal lesions confirmed on brain magnetic resonance imaging. Findings were compared with those from clinical electroencephalography (periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) or bilateral independent PLEDs (BIPLEDs)).

PLEDs in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following a cadaveric dural graft.

Introduction: Periodic synchronous discharges (PSDs) are a well-known electroencephalographic finding associated with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), but only a few reports have documented the appearance of periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) in CJD and there has been no discussion as to why PLEDs appear with unilateral (right or left) dominance.

Case Report And Discussion: We report on a 61-year-old man who received a cadaveric dura mater graft and developed CJD 14 years later. Periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLEDs) were observed predominantly in the right hemisphere, coinciding with the location of the dural graft, the presumed source of the CJD agent and PLEDs seen in this case finally developed into PSDs.