Relationship among workload, health complaints, and depressive state of workers as revealed using a questionnaire survey

Work

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Kawada, Tomoyuki ^a   Ueda, Harumi ^a   Hayashi, Mikiko ^a   Sakamoto, Ayako ^a   Uchida, Kaoru ^a   Shirato, Takako ^a   Etoh, Risa ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

cross sectional study; general health questionnaire; health complaints; questionnaire survey; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DRUG INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78650599091     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2010-1087     Document Type: Article

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