Work environment and mental health status assessed by the general health questionnaire in female Japanese doctors

Industrial Health

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 781-786

  Hayasaka, Yuko ^a   Nakamura, Kazutoshi ^b   Yamamoto, Masaharu ^b   Sasaki, Shigeru ^c  

^a NIIGATA SEIRYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Niigata Medical Association   (Japan)

Author keywords

Female doctors; General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 30); Mental health; Stress; Work environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 38749091786     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.45.781     Document Type: Article

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