Associations between Hours Worked, Symptoms and Health Resource Utilization among Full‐time Male Japanese Workers

• DOI: 10.1539/joh.10-0039-oa
• Publication Date: 2011-04-14T05:20:26Z
• Authors: Keiko Sato; Shin Yamazaki; Yasuaki Hayashino; Misa Takegami; Yasuharu Tokuda; Osamu Takahashi; Takuro Shimbo; Shigeaki Hinohara; Tsuguya Fukui; Shunichi Fukuhara
• Keywords: Adult; Complementary Therapies; Employment; Male; Adolescent; Health Status; Nonprescription Drugs; Workload; Health Services; Middle Aged; 3. Good health; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Japan; Surveys and Questionnaires; Health Status Indicators; Humans; Regression Analysis; Prospective Studies; Workplace; Aged

To investigate the association between hours worked, symptoms experienced, and health resource utilization.Data were collected from a nationally representative sample of households in Japan. We studied full-time male workers aged 18-65 yr who worked 100 h or more per month. First, we examined experienced. Second, type utilized, such as physician visits, over-the-counter (OTC) medication use, dietary supplement complementary alternative medicine (CAM) provider visits. used multivariable negative binominal model each analysis.Of 762 workers, 598 reported experiencing at least once categorized participants based on number month (h/mo): 100-200 h/mo, 201-250 over 250 h/mo. Compared with those working h/mo had frequent visits (rate ratio:1.67, 95% CI: 1.17 to 2.38) significantly lower rates CAM tended use supplements for symptoms. Participants OTC most frequently. No significant was observed experienced.The by likely they resources that time requirement. Greater attention should be paid patterns utilization among their consequent influence long-term status.