Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: We aim to conduct a prospective cohort study to benchmark occupational health and safety in Japan. Here, we describe the detailed protocol for the baseline survey based on the Checklist for Reporting Results of Internet E-Surveys. We conducted the baseline survey for the prospective cohort study in 2022. Our target population was workers in Japan aged 20 years or older, who we sampled to be representative of the Japanese workforce, stratified by sex, age, and region. Among 59,272 registered monitors who answered the initial screening questions, 29,997 completed the survey. After excluding 2,304 invalid responses, we used 27,693 valid participants in our final analysis. The number and mean age of men were 15,201 (55%) and 46 years; those of women were 12,492 (45%) and 45 years. With respect to sex, age, and regional composition, our sampling was representative of Japan's working population. Our sampling for employment status and industry yielded almost the same proportions as a government-led representative sampling of workers in Japan.
Source: Frontiers in Public Health
Language: English
Subfield: Occupational Therapy
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,295
Awards: 電子ビームによるガス除染技術に関する基礎的研究, G293672072, 労働災害防止対策の推進とESG投資の活用に資する調査研究, Benchmarking of deaths at work in a cohort of workers and the association between medical visits and deaths, Occupational cohort study on treatment status of lifestyle-related diseases and onset of stroke and coronary heart disease and medical expenses
OpenAlex ID: W4388293338