Relationship between behavioral lifestyle and mental health status evaluated using the GHQ-28 and SDS questionnaires in Japanese factory workers

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 467-473

  Suda, Miyuki ^a   Nakayama, Kunio ^a   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depression; GHQ 28; Health practice; HPI; Lifestyle; Mental health; SDS; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKER;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34547689653     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.467     Document Type: Article

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