Remote work and long-term sickness absence due to mental disorder trends among Japanese workers pre/post COVID-19

Yasuhiko Deguchi; Shinichi Iwasaki; Yuki Uesaka; Yutaro Okawa; Shohei Okura; Kunio Maekubo; Ayaka Matsunaga; Yuki Kageyama; Koki Inoue

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0319825

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Remote work and long-term sickness absence due to mental disorder trends among Japanese workers pre/post COVID-19

Yasuhiko Deguchi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: ydeguchi@omu.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Osaka Occupational Health Support Center, Osaka, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5320-6569

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Shinichi Iwasaki,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1415-8701

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Yuki Uesaka,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Yutaro Okawa,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Shohei Okura,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Kunio Maekubo,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Ayaka Matsunaga,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Yuki Kageyama,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Koki Inoue

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan, Osaka Occupational Health Support Center, Osaka, Japan
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Remote work and long-term sickness absence due to mental disorder trends among Japanese workers pre/post COVID-19

Yasuhiko Deguchi,
Shinichi Iwasaki,
Yuki Uesaka,
Yutaro Okawa,
Shohei Okura,
Kunio Maekubo,
Ayaka Matsunaga,
Yuki Kageyama,
Koki Inoue

Published: March 12, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319825

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