{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Tashiro S"],"funding":["Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare","Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"],"pagination":["e055577"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8995962"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12(4)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>It has been hypothesised that smoking intensity may be related to occupational stress. This study aimed to investigate whether stress, including problems with superiors or co-workers, is a driver of smoking.<h4>Design</h4>Cross-sectional study.<h4>Setting and participants</h4>59 355 employees (34 865 men and 24 490 women) across multiple occupations who completed a self-reported questionnaire-based occupational stress survey between April 2016 and March 2017 in Niigata Prefecture.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Stress scores for the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire subscales summed up after assigning high points for high stress and converted to Z-scores based on the mean of all participants. Heavy smokers (HS) smoked ≥15 cigarettes/day and light smokers (LS) smoked <15 cigar"],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["Differences in occupational stress by smoking intensity and gender in cross-sectional study of 59 355 Japanese employees using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ): the Niigata Wellness Study."],"pmcid":["PMC8995962"],"funding_grant_id":["N/A","Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19139518)"],"pubmed_authors":["Kitazawa M","Kodama S","Kato K","Otsuka M","Tashiro M","Sone H","Fujihara K","Sato K","Matsuda K","Tashiro S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Differences in occupational stress by smoking intensity and gender in cross-sectional study of 59 355 Japanese employees using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (BJSQ): the Niigata Wellness Study.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>It has been hypothesised that smoking intensity may be related to occupational stress. This study aimed to investigate whether stress, including problems with superiors or co-workers, is a driver of smoking.<h4>Design</h4>Cross-sectional study.<h4>Setting and participants</h4>59 355 employees (34 865 men and 24 490 women) across multiple occupations who completed a self-reported questionnaire-based occupational stress survey between April 2016 and March 2017 in Niigata Prefecture.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Stress scores for the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire subscales summed up after assigning high points for high stress and converted to Z-scores based on the mean of all participants. Heavy smokers (HS) smoked ≥15 cigarettes/day and light smokers (LS) smoked <15 cigar","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Apr","modification":"2025-04-05T22:17:14.104Z","creation":"2025-04-05T22:17:14.104Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8995962","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35396288"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055577"]}}