Designing a test battery for workers' well-being: the first wave of the Tsukuba Salutogenic Occupational Cohort Study.

Background: In recent years, there has been a diversification of working styles. The concept of workers' well-being is no longer limited to material wealth, such as how satisfied they are with their wages. Psychological enrichment, encompassing factors like motivation and interpersonal relationships, is also important.

Factors Associated With Work Engagement of Nurses During the Fifth Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the prevalence of mental health issues among nurses. Work engagement (WE) is a concept that describes work-related positive psychological states and is of importance within mental health measures. There is, however, a lack of research on factors associated with the WE of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Relationships between sleep efficiency and lifestyle evaluated by objective sleep assessment: SLeep Epidemiology Project at University of Tsukuba.

Objectively measured sleep efficiency has recently been shown to be associated with health problems. Although several factors have previously been reported to be associated with sleep efficiency, most of these studies were conducted on older or younger adults, and the factors associated with sleep efficiency in healthy workers remain unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep efficiency and lifestyle factors using sleep measurement data recorded by an activity meter worn by workers.

Differences in psychological distress between managers and non-managers in female workers: a cross-sectional study in Tsukuba Science City, Japan.

The Japanese government has made efforts towards the advancement of women into society; thereby, the proportion of female managers has been increasing. Recent reports have shown that managers tend to be in poor health condition. However, little research has been conducted to examine the psychological health of female managers.

[Study of the relationship between incidence of sick leave due to mental health failure and work rules about sick leave].

Objectives: This study examined the relationships among the support system for return to work, work rules about sick leave, and incidence of sick leave due to mental health failure.

Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to 150 workplaces with a history of use of the occupational health promotion center of a certain prefecture. The questionnaire asked about the number and duration of sick leaves due to mental health failure, the support system for return to work, and work rules about sick leave.

The effect of stress-related factors on mental health status among resident doctors in Japan.

Objectives: This study was designed to investigate how the interaction between the ability of medical residents (doctors in postgraduate training) to cope with stress and their working conditions might affect their level of job-related stress.

Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to 549 first-year medical residents at 38 postgraduate education hospitals in Japan, 1-2 months after the start of clinical training. The questionnaires contained the 29-item Sense of Coherence (SOC) Scale, the Brief Scales for Job Stress (BSJS), the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and questions on basic conditions such as working hours.

Roll-over detection and sleep quality measurement using a wearable sensor.

Mental health management in the workplace has attracted increasing attention in recent years. As sleep is an essential physiological function that is strongly related to mental condition, easy and daily sleep management is considered essential for maintaining good mental health. In this paper, we detected roll-over movements during sleep using a wearable armband-shaped sensor, SenseWear Pro2 Armband.