Ezoe S, Morimoto K
Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Osaka University School of Medicine, Japan.
Prev Med. 1994 Jan;23(1):98-105. doi: 10.1006/pmed.1994.1014.
Lifestyle factors, sometimes associated with physical health and mortality, have also been known to be associated with mental health status. This study seeks to correlate behavioral lifestyles with major components of mental health among Japanese factory workers.
We administered the 28-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and a questionnaire concerning eight personal health practices to 2,132 male and 668 female factory workers at a camera-manufacturing company in Japan.
There were strong negative relationships of a higher total number of favorable lifestyles as indicated by the Health Practice Index (HPI) to psychological distress and its components: somatic symptoms, anxiety-insomnia, and social dysfunction. After controlling for the effects of confounding factors that included age, marital status, and somatic condition, multiple logistic regression analysis indicated that five of the eight health factors among male workers--mental stress, nutritional balance, eating breakfast regularly, physical exercise, and working hours--were significantly related to the grade of psychological distress or its three components. Among female workers, five health practices, i.e., mental stress, physical exercise, sleeping hours, working hours, and cigarette smoking, were significantly associated with the grade of psychological distress or its three components.
Good health practices might be individually and as a whole associated with better mental health status in factory workers.
生活方式因素有时与身体健康及死亡率相关，同时也已知与心理健康状况有关。本研究旨在探讨日本工厂工人的行为生活方式与心理健康主要组成部分之间的关联。
我们对日本一家相机制造公司的2132名男性和668名女性工厂工人进行了28项版的一般健康问卷（GHQ - 28）以及一份关于八项个人健康习惯的问卷调查。
健康习惯指数（HPI）所表明的更健康生活方式总数与心理困扰及其组成部分：躯体症状、焦虑失眠和社会功能障碍之间存在强烈的负相关关系。在控制了包括年龄、婚姻状况和躯体状况等混杂因素的影响后，多因素逻辑回归分析表明，男性工人的八项健康因素中的五项——精神压力、营养平衡、规律吃早餐、体育锻炼和工作时间——与心理困扰程度或其三个组成部分显著相关。在女性工人中，五项健康习惯，即精神压力、体育锻炼、睡眠时间、工作时间和吸烟，与心理困扰程度或其三个组成部分显著相关。
良好的健康习惯可能单独或整体上与工厂工人更好的心理健康状况相关。
