{"id":15020,"date":"2013-08-05T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=15020"},"modified":"2013-08-05T03:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:54:49","slug":"combination-of-long-hours-and-overwork-increases-depression-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/08\/combination-of-long-hours-and-overwork-increases-depression-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Combination of long hours and overwork increases depression risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine<\/em> media release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/zen-office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14786\" alt=\"zen office\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/zen-office.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>Employees who work long hours with high job demands are more likely to develop depression<\/strong>, suggests a study in the August <em>Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine<\/em>, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interventions targeting the combination of &#8220;long hours\/overworked&#8221; (LHO) might help to reduce the risk of depression in the workplace<\/strong>, according to the report by Drs. Takahashi Amagasa and Takeo Nakayama of Kyoto University School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers analyzed job and workplace factors affecting depression risk in a group of 218 Japanese clerical workers. They found that <strong>employees who worked long hours (at least 60 per week) and had high job demands (defined as &#8220;usually&#8221; having too much work) were at higher risk of depression<\/strong>. Workers who initially had the LHO combination were 15 times more likely to have depression when re-evaluated one to three years later.<\/p>\n<p>On adjustment for other factors, <strong>workers who went from LHO to non-LHO status were at lower risk of depression, while those who moved from non-LHO to LHO were at increased risk<\/strong>. The risk of depression in LHO workers seemed to increase over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous studies have reported mixed results regarding the physical and mental health effects of long work hours<\/strong>. The new study highlights the importance of high job demands and feeling overworked &#8212; combined with long work hours &#8212; as a risk factor for depression in employees. Drs Amagasa and Nakayama conclude, &#8220;By targeting LHO, especially changes in LHO status, mental health measures that effectively reduce the occurrence of major depressive disorder will become possible by controlling factors in the occupational environment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine media release: Employees who work long hours with high job demands are more likely to develop depression, suggests a study in the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/08\/combination-of-long-hours-and-overwork-increases-depression-risk\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[345,338,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15111,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15020\/revisions\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}