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Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?

INTRODUCTION: High stress at work is associated with negative health outcomes for workers, making stress prevention a critical challenge. Overtime work is an influential stress factor. This study, therefore, aimed to longitudinally evaluate how stress increased depending on changes in working hours...

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Autores principales: Ozawa, Masaki, Anzai, Tatsuhiko, Yamauchi, Takashi, Takahashi, Kunihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1076024
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author Ozawa, Masaki
Anzai, Tatsuhiko
Yamauchi, Takashi
Takahashi, Kunihiko
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Anzai, Tatsuhiko
Yamauchi, Takashi
Takahashi, Kunihiko
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description INTRODUCTION: High stress at work is associated with negative health outcomes for workers, making stress prevention a critical challenge. Overtime work is an influential stress factor. This study, therefore, aimed to longitudinally evaluate how stress increased depending on changes in working hours among Japanese white-collar workers. METHODS: We targeted 3,874 participants who were full-time workers and were recognized as having low stress in a web-based cohort in 2018 (T1) and 2019 (T2). We performed univariate and multivariate logistic regression with the following variables: years of experience, years of education, medical background, income, and roommates. RESULTS: We observed a greater increase in stress among female who worked 41–50 h per week at T1 and more than 50 hours per week at T2, and those who worked more than 50 h per week at T1 and 35–40/41–50 h per week at T2, compared to those who worked 41–50 h per week both at T1 and T2, with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of OR = 2.09, 95% CI (1.18, 3,70); OR =1.86, 95% CI (1.14, 3.03), respectively. However, no association between change in working hours and stress was found among male. DISCUSSION: These results show that reducing stress requires decreasing working hours as well as identifying factors that lead to high stress.
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spelling pubmed-99288592023-02-16 Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers? Ozawa, Masaki Anzai, Tatsuhiko Yamauchi, Takashi Takahashi, Kunihiko Front Public Health Public Health INTRODUCTION: High stress at work is associated with negative health outcomes for workers, making stress prevention a critical challenge. Overtime work is an influential stress factor. This study, therefore, aimed to longitudinally evaluate how stress increased depending on changes in working hours among Japanese white-collar workers. METHODS: We targeted 3,874 participants who were full-time workers and were recognized as having low stress in a web-based cohort in 2018 (T1) and 2019 (T2). We performed univariate and multivariate logistic regression with the following variables: years of experience, years of education, medical background, income, and roommates. RESULTS: We observed a greater increase in stress among female who worked 41–50 h per week at T1 and more than 50 hours per week at T2, and those who worked more than 50 h per week at T1 and 35–40/41–50 h per week at T2, compared to those who worked 41–50 h per week both at T1 and T2, with odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of OR = 2.09, 95% CI (1.18, 3,70); OR =1.86, 95% CI (1.14, 3.03), respectively. However, no association between change in working hours and stress was found among male. DISCUSSION: These results show that reducing stress requires decreasing working hours as well as identifying factors that lead to high stress. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9928859/ /pubmed/36817909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1076024 Text en Copyright © 2023 Ozawa, Anzai, Yamauchi and Takahashi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Anzai, Tatsuhiko
Yamauchi, Takashi
Takahashi, Kunihiko
Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?
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title_full Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?
title_fullStr Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?
title_full_unstemmed Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?
title_short Do changes in working hours increase stress in Japanese white-collar workers?
title_sort do changes in working hours increase stress in japanese white-collar workers?
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9928859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36817909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1076024
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