A Japanese Stress Check Program screening tool predicts employee long-term sickness absence: a prospective study

On December 1, 2015, the Japanese government launched the Stress Check Program, a new occupational health policy to screen employees for high psychosocial stress in the workplace. As only weak evidence exists for the effectiveness of the program, we sought to estimate the risk of stress‐associated longterm sickness absence as defined in the program manual.

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