Relationship of type of work with health-related quality of life

Purpose To examine the relation of work type with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in healthy workers. Methods We cross-sectionally examined 4427 (3605 men and 822 women) healthy workers in Japan, aged 19-69 years. We assessed HRQoL based on scores for five scales of the SF-36. Multiple regres...

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Published in:Quality of life research 2015-12, Vol.24 (12), p.2927-2932
Main Authors: Kawabe, Yuri, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Kikuchi, Sayuri, Suzukamo, Yoshimi, Murakami, Yoshitaka, Tanaka, Taichiro, Takebayashi, Toru, Okayama, Akira, Miura, Katsuyuki, Okamura, Tomonori, Fukuhara, Shunichi, Ueshima, Hirotsugu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age
Aged
Alcohol
Body mass index
Brief Communication
Cardiovascular disease
CLINICAL AND POLICY APPLICATIONS
Confounding (Statistics)
Cross-Sectional Studies
Epidemiology
Exercise
Female
Gender
Health care
Humans
Lifestyles
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Men
Mental health
Metabolism
Middle Aged
Occupational health
Preventive medicine
Public Health
Quality of life
Quality of Life - psychology
Quality of Life Research
Questionnaires
Sleep
Sociology
Womens health
Work - psychology
Workforce
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose To examine the relation of work type with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in healthy workers. Methods We cross-sectionally examined 4427 (3605 men and 822 women) healthy workers in Japan, aged 19-69 years. We assessed HRQoL based on scores for five scales of the SF-36. Multiple regression was applied to examine the relation of work type (nighttime, shift, day to night, and daytime) with the five HRQoL norm-based scores, lower scores of which indicate poorer health status, adjusted for confounding factors, including sleeping duration. Results Shiftwork was inversely related to role physical [regression estimate (β) = –2.12, 95 % confidence intervals (CI) –2.94, –1.30, P < 0.001], general health (β = –1.37, 95 % CI –2.01, –0.72, P < 0.001), role emotional (β = –1.24, 95% CI –1.98, –0.50, P < 0.001), and mental health (β = –1.31, 95% CI –2.01, –0.63, P < 0.001) independent of confounding factors, but not to vitality. Day-to-nighttime work was inversely related to all the five HRQoL subscales (Ps 0.012 to
ISSN:0962-9343
1573-2649
DOI:10.1007/s11136-015-1024-5