Department of Oral Health Promotion, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Japan.
J Occup Health. 2023 Jan-Dec;65(1):e12415. doi: 10.1002/1348-9585.12415.
Dental check-ups at the workplace provide the opportunity for early detection of dental diseases. Dental check-ups during working hours could reduce the number of days of absence from work due to visits to dental clinics outside the workplace. Although health check-ups are provided to workers in Japan, dental check-ups is not mandatory. This study aimed to determine the association between the place of dental check-ups and absenteeism due to visits to the dental clinic.
This cross-sectional study used data from an online self-reported worker survey conducted for 2 weeks in March 2017. We applied linear regression analysis with robust variance to determine the association between the place of dental check-ups and absenteeism due to dental clinic visits while adjusting for sociodemographic, health, and oral health covariates.
The average age of the 3930 participants was 43.3 ± 11.7 years, and 52.3% were male. The number of days of absenteeism due to dental clinic visits in the past year for those who received check-ups only at the dental clinic and at the workplace were 0.57 ± 2.67 days and 0.21 ± 1.20 days, respectively. After adjusting for covariates, it was found that those who received dental check-ups at the workplace had 0.35 (95% CI, 0.12-0.58) fewer days of absence than those who received dental check-ups at the dental clinic.
Workers who received dental check-ups at the workplace were associated with fewer days of absence due to dental visits than those who received at the dental clinic.
工作场所的牙科检查为早期发现牙科疾病提供了机会。在工作时间进行牙科检查可以减少因到工作场所外的牙科诊所就诊而缺勤的天数。尽管日本为工人提供了健康检查，但牙科检查并非强制性的。本研究旨在确定牙科检查地点与因看牙医而缺勤之间的关系。
本横断面研究使用了 2017 年 3 月进行的为期两周的在线自我报告工人调查的数据。我们应用具有稳健方差的线性回归分析来确定牙科检查地点与因看牙医而缺勤之间的关联，同时调整了社会人口统计学、健康和口腔健康方面的协变量。
3930 名参与者的平均年龄为 43.3±11.7 岁，其中 52.3%为男性。在过去一年中，因看牙医而缺勤的天数分别为仅在牙科诊所和工作场所接受检查的人的 0.57±2.67 天和 0.21±1.20 天。在调整了协变量后，发现那些在工作场所接受牙科检查的人比那些在牙科诊所接受牙科检查的人缺勤天数少 0.35（95%置信区间，0.12-0.58）。
与在牙科诊所接受牙科检查的人相比，在工作场所接受牙科检查的工人因看牙医而缺勤的天数更少。
