1. Association between overtime work hours and preventive dental visits among Japanese workers
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Arisa Harada, Yoshikazu Harada, Ryoichi Oya, Tomohisa Nagata, Masako Nagata, and Koji Mori
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Oral health ,Workload ,Logistic regression ,Overtime work ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Japan ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Work Schedule Tolerance ,Epidemiology ,Humans ,Medicine ,Workplace ,Aged ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,Public health ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Overtime ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,Preventive dental visits ,030206 dentistry ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,030210 environmental & occupational health ,Confidence interval ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Marital status ,Female ,Biostatistics ,business ,Research Article ,Demography - Abstract
Background This study aimed to examine the association between overtime work and the frequency of preventive dental visits among workers in Japan. Methods A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 14,847 daytime-workers. We used a logistic regression model stratified by sex and age and adjusted for marital status, occupation, education, and oral status to investigate the association between overtime work hours and the frequency of preventive dental visits. Results In total 1037 men (9.3%) and 511 women (13.9%) attended quarterly preventive dental visits, and 2672 men (23.9%) and 1165 women (31.8%) attended annual preventive dental visits. Overtime work was statistically significantly associated with quarterly preventive dental visits among men aged 50–59 years, with adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of 0.73 (0.56–0.95), 0.75 (0.54–1.04), and 0.55 (0.34–0.90) for Conclusions Our study revealed associations between overtime and preventive dental visits among male workers aged in their 40s and 50s.
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- 2021