Workers' Job Stress is Associated with Departmental Incidence of Associates' Long-term Sickness Absence Caused by Mental Disorders
Year: 2017
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Background : We hypothesized that workers' experience of job stressors is related to the incidence of their department associates' sickness absence due to mental disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the incidence of long-term sickness absence in a department due to mental disorders, and the job stressors experienced by that department's working employees. / Methods : We used a data from Brief Job Stress Questionnaire in 2011. The participants were 12356 public servants (including 4339 supervisors and 8017 coworkers). Between 2011 and 2013, 135 workers had been on long-term sickness absence due to a mental disorder. We identified departments with more than one worker who had been on long-term sickness absence due to a mental disorder. We used multiple logistic regression analysis to analyze the relationship between associates' (supervisors or coworkers) Brief Job Stress Questionnaire subscale scores and their department's risk for long-term sickness absence due to mental disorders....
Authors: Akihito Konishi, Shinichi Iwasaki, Yasuhiko Deguchi, Hideyuki Ishimoto, Koki Inoue
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3194698915