[Basic studies on the relationship between health of the working women and the psychoneuroendocrine system].
In order to maintain the health and also to promote the physical condition of the working women, a few fundamental studies were done on the relationship between the environmental status of labor and the emotional factors of these women, such as autonomic nervous system and endocrinological system. In regard to psychological factor, the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) and the Manifest Anxiety Scale (MAS) were applied. In regard to the autonomic nervous system, the Autonomic Nervous Symptom Score (ANS-S) was used. And on the endocrinological system, the investigation was done using the measurement of the basal body temperature (BBT) for 331 female employees of the department store as a material of study. However, only 140 out of 331 female employee had achieved the full one month course of the BBT measurement and 191 did not complete the BBT study. This fact suggests the difficulty of measurement of the body temperature for 5 minutes in their oral cavity at the time of wake up in the morning among the working women. Accordingly it is important to shorten the time of measurement of the body temperature. For this purpose, a fundamental study was done with the new type of thermometer.
D000328:Adult; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology; D001831:Body Temperature; D003321:Cornell Medical Index; D004702:Endocrine Glands / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology