Gender differences in excessive daytime sleepiness among Japanese workers

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 883-894

  Doi, Yuriko ^a   Minowa, Masumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS); Gender; Japan; Marital status; Sleep duration; Sleep wake rhythms

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; SLEEP;

ABSENTEEISM; ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; ERROR; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NIGHT SLEEP; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOMNOLENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TOKYO; URBAN HEALTH; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 0037304843     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00089-8     Document Type: Article

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