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

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Abstract

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 <0.001).

Conclusion

Shiftwork was significantly inversely related to four out of the five HRQoL, except for vitality, and day-to-nighttime work was significantly inversely related to all five HRQoL, independent of demographic and lifestyle factors.

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Acknowledgments

Research fund for this study is listed in the Acknowledgments of Ref. [16]. Investigators and members of the research group are listed in the appendix of Ref. [13].

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  1. Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yuri Kawabe & Yasuyuki Nakamura

  2. Departments of Public Health, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan

    Yasuyuki Nakamura, Katsuyuki Miura & Hirotsugu Ueshima

  3. Department of Community Network and Collaborative Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

    Sayuri Kikuchi

  4. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

    Yoshimi Suzukamo

  5. Departments of Medical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshitaka Murakami

  6. Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Taichiro Tanaka

  7. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Toru Takebayashi & Tomonori Okamura

  8. Research Center for Lifestyle-Related Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

    Akira Okayama

  9. Department of Epidemiology and Healthcare Research, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Shunichi Fukuhara

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Kawabe, Y., Nakamura, Y., Kikuchi, S. et al. Relationship of type of work with health-related quality of life. Qual Life Res 24, 2927–2932 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1024-5

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