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- Title
Lifestyle parameters of Japanese agricultural and non-agricultural workers aged 60 years or older and less than 60 years: A cross-sectional observational study.
- Authors
Kinoshita, Fumie; Yoshida, Kei; Fujitani, Masaya; Imai, Yuta; Kobayashi, Yumiko; Ito, Tomoya; Okumura, Yuto; Sato, Hiroyuki; Mikami, Tatsuya; Jung, Songee; Hirakawa, Akihiro; Nakatochi, Masahiro
- Abstract
Objectives: Improving the lifestyle of occupational workers is essential for extending healthy life expectancy. We investigated various lifestyle-related items in a rural Japanese population and compared them between agricultural and non-agricultural workers. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted as a part of the "Iwaki Health Promotion Project." Lifestyle-related items such as sleep, work hours, nutrition, health-related quality of life, and proportion of time spent performing each daily activity were compared between agricultural and non-agricultural workers in the ≥60 years (n = 251) and <60 years (n = 560) age groups. Results: Agricultural workers had significantly lower Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index total scores than non-agricultural workers in the <60 years group. The proportion of participants with more than 5 weekly working days was high among agricultural workers in both groups. Additionally, the proportion of people who worked more than 8 h per day was high among agricultural workers in both age groups. Energy intake per day was high among agricultural workers in the <60 years group. In both age groups, agricultural workers slept and woke up approximately 40 min earlier than did non-agricultural workers. Conclusions: Agricultural workers have better sleep habits but work longer than non-agricultural workers, with some differences in energy intake and proportion of time spent on each daily activity. These differences should be considered when planning lifestyle intervention programs for agricultural workers.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL laborers; SLEEP quality; RURAL population; QUALITY of life; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0290662