3 results match your criteria: "From the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health[Affiliation]"

Causal Effects of High Stress Assessed Via Interviews on Mental and Physical Health: Toward Computer Agent-Driven Stress Assessment.

J Occup Environ Med

July 2024

From the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Japan, Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Kawasaki, Japan (K.K.); Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan (X.K., R.N., K.M.); and National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College, Takamatsu, Japan (M.S.).

Objectives: This study investigated the causal effect of high stress assessment via an interview on the mental and physical health of workers 1 month later.

Methods: Stress assessment interviews and feedback were conducted with 50 Japanese workers. In addition to the interviewer, two occupational health professionals assessed participants' stress based on recordings.

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Objectives: This study examines the mediating and moderating effects of psychological detachment (PD) based on the stressor-detachment model in the long term.

Methods: Two waves of Web-based surveys, 28 months apart, yielded 3556 responses from Japanese workers. Comparisons between models that included mediating and moderating effects of PD and reverse direction mediating effects (strain → PD → stressor) were made by structural equation modeling.

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Objectives: We surveyed how home-working conditions, specifically furniture and computer use, affected self-reported musculoskeletal problems and work performance.

Methods: Questionnaires from 4112 homeworkers were analyzed. The relationship between subjective musculoskeletal problems or work performance and working conditions were determined by logistic regression analyses.

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