A comparison of white-collar jobs in regard to mental health consultation rates in a health care center operated by a Japanese company.
The aim of this study was to compare the consultation rates (CR) of workers performing several types of white-collar jobs. We collected data from the database inputted at the first consultation to a health care center from April 1996 to March 1999. We found that the CR of engineer group was 2.3 times higher than that of employees involved in research and development group. We speculate that this is partially due to the portion, which is not small, of computer systems engineer (SE) comprising this group; SE has previously been mentioned as a particularly stressful occupation in Japan. Since the result of this study is preliminary, we need to conduct a further study taking into account that multiple factors affect CR.
Soeda
Shuji
S
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1, Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan.
Hayashi
Takeshi
T
Sugawara
Yoichi
Y
Takano
Tomoki
T
Terao
Takeshi
T
Nakamura
Jun
J
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009790:Occupations / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology