long absence from work due to sickness among psychiatric out¬patients in japan, with reference to a recent trend for perfec¬tionism

Long Absence from Work Due to Sickness among Psychiatric Outpatients in Japan, with Reference to a Recent Trend for Perfectionism

BACKGROUND Sick leave from work due to psychiatric disorders is a major public health problem, not only in Japan but also worldwide. As males and females in Japan tend to differ in their approach to work, a gender difference in perfectionism might be expected. We investigated the background factors leading to long-term absence from work due to sickness among psychiatric outpatients in Japan. ...

Return to work following sickness absence due to infectious mononucleosis.

BACKGROUND Epstein-Barr virus infectious mononucleosis among adults is notorious because of the prolonged incapacitating fatigue it causes. AIMS To investigate the duration of sickness absence and return to work following infectious mononucleosis. METHODS Episodes of sickness absence due to infectious mononucleosis were selected from an occupational health services register. The duration of...

Increased absence due to sickness among employees with fibromyalgia.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effect of fibromyalgia on absence due to sickness in working populations. OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of absence due to sickness among employees with fibromyalgia. METHODS A prospective cohort study with 1-year follow-up of recorded and certified absence due to sickness after a survey of chronic diseases among 34 100 Finnish public sector employees (27...

Absence from work attributed to sickness.

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Recurrence of sickness absence due to depression after returning to work at a Japanese IT company.

There have been few epidemiological studies on recurrent sickness absence due to depression after returning to work (RTW). The objective of this study was to investigate the prognosis of workers who are RTW with depression in a Japanese company. This study employed a descriptive epidemiology study design. Subjects of this study were 540 employees who worked full-time and were registered in the ...