Prospective association between high stress profile as defined using the Japanese Stress Check Program manual and long-term sickness absence among a working population with various backgrounds: a two-wave longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to examine the prospective association between stress profile as defined using the Stress Check Program manual and long-term sickness absence among a working population with various backgrounds.

Methods

We analyzed 1,741 participants who participated in two online surveys in December 2023 and October 2024. In the first survey, we asked participants to complete the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire and evaluated their stress profile using the Japanese Stress Check Program manual. In the second survey, we asked participants if they had experienced sickness absence for 1 month or longer between the first and second surveys. We then examined the association between stress status in the first survey and experience of sickness absence during the waves. We calculat

SUBMITTER: Tsutsumi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12738527 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature