A Workplace-Based Preventive Measure for Employees' Mental Health: Usability of a Mental Health Care Program Utilizing Periodic Health Checkups(Symposium/Health Promotion Activities for Prevention of Disease)

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  • Ohira Taiko
    Faculty of Child Development and Education, Toyama University of International Studies
  • Ishikawa Koji
    Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Chubu Rosai Hospital
  • Ashihara Mutsumi
    Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Chubu Rosai Hospital:Clinical Center for Worker's Mental Health

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  • 事業所におけるメンタルヘルス予防活動 : 定期健康診断を活用したメンタルヘルス対策の有用性(シンポジウム:疾病予防のための健康増進活動,2010年,第51回日本心身医学総会ならびに学術講演会(仙台))
  • 事業所におけるメンタルヘルス予防活動--定期健康診断を活用したメンタルヘルス対策の有用性
  • ジギョウショ ニ オケル メンタル ヘルス ヨボウ カツドウ テイキ ケンコウ シンダン オ カツヨウ シタ メンタル ヘルス タイサク ノ ユウヨウセイ

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This paper examines a mental health care program that has been implemented at a company in the manufacturing industry, from the viewpoint of its effectiveness and practicability as a workplace-based preventive measure. It presents a report on the program conducted with 3882 employees in the fiscal year 2006. For the purpose of screening, two procedures were incorporated into periodic health checkups: a mental health questionnaire and a history-taking by a public health nurse. For case identification, interviews were given by a counselor and examinations by an occupational physician. As a result, 22 employees (0.6%) were newly identified as having mental health disturbances. Preventive interventions such as counseling and environmental control were also conducted for some of those employees who were not identified as suffering from mental health disturbances. An examination of the numbers of clients between 2003 and 2007 shows that, in the two years when screening was conducted at the time of periodic health checkups (i.e., in 2003 and 2006), the company clinic received many more clients than in other years, while the number of clients from routes other than periodic health checkups decreased. This result suggests that a mental health care program utilizing periodic health checkups can be effective for both secondary and primary prevention. Further-more, the program reported in this study was conducted by a small number of occupational health staff members. This practicability should be of importance to many companies that attempt to promote mental health care for their employees.

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