Depressive symptoms in Chinese factory workers in Nagasaki, Japan

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 376-382

  Date, Yutaka ^a   Abe, Yasuyo ^a   Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Ye, Zhaojia ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Tomita, Masato ^a   Osaki, Makoto ^a   Honda, Sumihisa ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CES D; Cross cultural difference; Depressive symptoms; Foreign workers; Mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69749096711     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.376     Document Type: Article

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