Title
Organizational Justice and Refraining from Seeking Medical Care Among Japanese Employees: A 1-Year Prospective Cohort Study
Date Issued
15 February 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Inoue Akiomi
Tsutsumi A
Eguchi H
Kawakami N
Kitasato University School of Medicine
Kitasato University School of Medicine
Kitasato University School of Medicine
The University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
Springer New York LLC
Abstract
Background: Using a 1-year prospective design, we examined the association of organizational justice (i.e., procedural justice and interactional justice) with refraining from seeking medical care (RSMC) among Japanese employees. Methods: We surveyed 2695 employees (1994 men and 701 women) from two factories of a manufacturing company in Japan. A self-administered questionnaire comprising scales for measuring organizational justice (Organizational Justice Questionnaire) and potential confounders (i.e., demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as health-related behaviors) was administered at baseline (from April to June 2011). At 1-year follow-up (from April to June 2012), a single-item question was used to measure RSMC during the follow-up period. Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted by gender. Results: After adjusting for potential confounders, low procedural justice and low interactional justice at baseline were found to be significantly associated with higher odds of RSMC during the 1-year follow-up for male employees (odds ratio = 1.33 [95% confidence interval = 1.16–1.52], p < 0.001 and 1.15 [95% confidence interval = 1.02–1.29], p = 0.019, respectively). Similar patterns were observed for female employees (odds ratio = 1.37 [95% confidence interval = 1.08–1.74], p = 0.009 and 1.23 [95% confidence interval = 1.02–1.50], p = 0.035 for low procedural justice and low interactional justice, respectively). Conclusions: The present study provided evidence that the lack of organizational justice is positively associated with RSMC among Japanese employees, independently of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as of health-related behaviors.
Start page
76
End page
84
Volume
26
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
PsicologĂa
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85057865854
PubMed ID
Source
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
ISSN of the container
10705503
Sponsor(s)
Funding Information The present study was supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT KAKENHI: Grant Number JP21119001), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS KAKENHI: Grant Numbers JP26253042 and JP17K09172), and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Industrial Disease Clinical Research Grants: Grant Numbers 170401-02 and 180701-01).
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