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Purpose: This study examines workplace support and resilience's influence on psychological distress in Japanese employees., Method: A 1-year prospective online cohort study was conducted. Logistic regression analyzed prevalence odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for psychological distress. Participants were grouped based on their support and resilience levels., Results: Prevalence odds ratios for psychological distress followed this pattern for low and high resilience groups: "necessary but not received" (prevalence odds ratio and 95% confidence interval for low/high resilience: 9.71, 6.88-13.69 and 4.72, 2.97-7.52, respectively), "received" (6.65, 4.29-10.29 and 2.27, 1.21-4.25), and "not necessary" (4.43, 3.30-5.95 and reference). Workplace support had a stronger impact on psychological distress in low-resilience employees., Conclusions: We provided evidence that the combination of the need for support from the workplace and resilience affects psychological distress in employees., Competing Interests: Eguchi, Inoue, Mafune, Tsuji, Tateishi, Ikegami, Nagata, Matsugaki, and Fujino, for the CORoNaWork project have no relationships/conditions/circumstances that present potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.)

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the association between the type of chronic disease and receiving workplace accommodations., Methods: This online cross-sectional study analyzed a self-reported questionnaire administered in Japan. A total of 6775 full-time workers who reported needing work accommodations were included., Results: Workplace accommodations were more likely to be provided for workers with cancer, mental illness, and benign gynecological disorders than for workers with no disease under treatment. In contrast, workplace accommodations were less likely for workers with low back pain and skin diseases., Conclusions: Receiving workplace accommodations depends on the type of chronic disease. Chronic diseases for which workers frequently receive workplace accommodations may be those for which support is encouraged by law. It is necessary to support workers with chronic diseases that do not receive adequate workplace accommodations., Competing Interests: Ishimaru, Harada, Tateishi, Nagata, Eguchi, Tsuji, Ikegami, Matsugaki, and Fujino, for the CORoNaWork Project have no relationships/conditions/circumstances that present potential conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2023 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.)

Objective: We investigated whether workplace infection control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase perceived organizational support (POS)., Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted in Japan from December 2020 to December 2021 using a questionnaire survey. There were 18,560 respondents at follow-up; we investigated 4971 who rated low POS at baseline. The participants were asked a single question about POS and nine about workplace infection control measures. We determined the odds ratios (ORs) of high POS at follow-up using multilevel logistic regression analysis., Results: The groups of 5 to 6 (OR = 1.29, 95% confidence interval = 1.05-1.57, P = 0.014) and 7 to 9 workplace infection control measures (OR = 1.54, 95% confidence interval, 1.28-1.85, P < 0.001) had significantly higher ORs than the group with 0 to 2 measures., Conclusions: Health support for employees through workplace infection control measures can increase POS., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest: None declared., (Copyright © 2022 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.)