著者

福西 勇夫 細川 清 中川 賢幸

出版者

一般社団法人 日本心身医学会

雑誌

心身医学 (ISSN:03850307)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.7, pp.619-627, 1987

被引用文献数

3

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It is said that Tanshin-Funin (people who live and work alone away from their families) of more than a hundred thousand live in Japan. Recently there has been much discussion on Tanshin-Funin as social problems. But very few reports and investigations have been made about this subject. We reported psychosomatic health investigations on Tanshin-Funin in Kagawa by using General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the questions : What do you think of Tanshin-Funin? GHQ has been developed by Goldberg in England and translated by A. Nakagawa in Japan in 1985. It consists of 60 questions dealing with recent symptoms. It was known that GHQ discriminate effectively between psychiatric patients and normal controls. Especially, we can find the patients in the area of neurosis and psychosomatic disease by estimating total score of GHQ and 4 factors (somatic symptoms, anxiety sleep disturbance, social dysfunction, severe depression) by GHQ. <Subjects and Method> Subjects; 215 men in 20 companies, Tanshih-Funin in Kagawa Controls; 201 men in the same companies We made a comparison between subjects and controls by GHQ. (1) Total scores of GHQ (Mean score, Percentage of over 17 score) (2) Histogram of GHQ scores in subjects and controls (3) 4 factors (somatic symptoms, anxiety. sleep disturbance, social dysfunction, severe depression) (4) Siginificant items between Subjects and controls regarding 60 questions by x^2-test. We asked Tanshin-Funin the questions of concerning "What do you think of Tanshin-Funin?" <Result and Discussion> 1) Subjects showed a tendency of higher scores by GHQ than controls. Especially, Tanshin-Funin who think "Tanshin-Funin is bad" showed a neurotic tendency. This may be due to the existence of neurotic tendency prior to this job arrangement. 2) Subjects were characterized with their tendencies that they have anxiety about the future and they do not go out after, saying that they are too tired. 3) Subjects have been under unstable circumstances from the standpoint of mental health. Because Tanshin-Funin have been living irregular life alone and lacking in the communications with their families, and suffering from economic burden for the double life. Tanshin-Funin have psychosomatic problems, which are related to the idea that Tanshin-Funin is bad. 4) Psychosomatic health controls of Tanshin-Funin are necessary in each company.