Five-year stability of job characteristics scale scores among a Japanese working population.

摘要: BACKGROUND: The job characteristics scale of strain, which combines high demands and low decision latitude based on Karasek's model, has been applied to studies health care cardiovascular disease. However, little is known about the long-term stability this with exposure workers job. We investigated 5-year intraindividual variation in scores among healthy community workers.METHODS: Subjects study were 458 dwelling persons forming part Jichi Medical School Cohort Study at Yamato (currently, Minami-Uonuma city), Niigata prefecture. Japanese version World Health Organization Multinational Monitoring Trends Determinants Cardiovascular Disease (WHO-MONICA) Psychosocial Questionnaire was implemented twice (from 1992 through 1995, 1999) measure levels. Intraclass correlation coefficients computed evaluate questionnaire.RESULTS: coefficient 0.629 (95% confidence interval: 0.564 - 0.686) that 0.551 (0.476 0.617). Subgroup analyses by age, sex, education level, years since first employment, number co-workers, category status baseline revealed similar results. In contrast, subjects who experienced position changes within same enterprise or changed jobs showed lower both compared those no change contents.CONCLUSION: WHO-MONICA statistically significant could be some extent responsive strain levels.J Epidemiol 2005; 15:228-234.