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Akizumi Tsutsumi

Akizumi Tsutsumi

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
7529
World Ranking
2828
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Japan Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Statistics
  • Psychiatry

His primary areas of investigation include Job strain, Psychosocial, Gerontology, Mental health and Psychiatry. Akizumi Tsutsumi interconnects Analysis of variance, Epinephrine, Confidence interval, Clinical psychology and Job control in the investigation of issues within Job strain. In his research on the topic of Psychosocial, Health psychology, Risk factor and Environmental health is strongly related with Suicide prevention.

His study looks at the relationship between Gerontology and fields such as Occupational medicine, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. The concepts of his Mental health study are interwoven with issues in Nursing, Job performance and Randomized controlled trial. Akizumi Tsutsumi combines subjects such as Emotional exhaustion, Cross-sectional study, Prospective cohort study, Social support and Interpersonal relationship with his study of Psychiatry.

His most cited work include:

  • A review of empirical studies on the model of effort-reward imbalance at work: reducing occupational stress by implementing a new theory. (315 citations)
  • What accounts for the relationship between social class and smoking cessation? Results of a path analysis (115 citations)
  • The Japanese version of the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire : a study in dental technicians (111 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Akizumi Tsutsumi mainly investigates Psychosocial, Mental health, Demography, Clinical psychology and Gerontology. His Mental health research includes themes of Nursing, Randomized controlled trial and Applied psychology. Demography combines with fields such as Prospective cohort study, Cohort study, Socioeconomic status, Job control and Job strain in his work.

His research investigates the connection with Job strain and areas like Odds ratio which intersect with concerns in Confidence interval and Logistic regression. The various areas that Akizumi Tsutsumi examines in his Clinical psychology study include Organizational justice, Interactional justice and Scale. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Cross-sectional study and Disease.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Psychosocial (23.41%)
  • Mental health (20.98%)
  • Demography (19.02%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Mental health (20.98%)
  • Clinical psychology (17.07%)
  • Demography (19.02%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Mental health, Clinical psychology, Demography, Prospective cohort study and Job satisfaction. His Mental health research incorporates themes from Psychosocial, Human factors and ergonomics, Applied psychology and Stress management. Akizumi Tsutsumi has researched Prospective cohort study in several fields, including Relative risk and Sickness absence.

His Job satisfaction study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Work engagement, Absenteeism and Nursing management. He has included themes like Occupational stress and Job control in his Hazard ratio study. His Scale course of study focuses on Gerontology and Cohort.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (16 citations)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury. (12 citations)
  • Effects of two types of smartphone-based stress management programmes on depressive and anxiety symptoms among hospital nurses in Vietnam: a protocol for three-arm randomised controlled trial (7 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Statistics
  • Psychiatry

Akizumi Tsutsumi mainly focuses on Randomized controlled trial, Prospective cohort study, Cohort, Working hours and Meta-analysis. His Randomized controlled trial research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Intervention, Family medicine, Anxiety, Public health and Stress management. His studies in Prospective cohort study integrate themes in fields like Work engagement and Interactional justice.

His Cohort research integrates issues from Epidemiology and Gerontology. His studies deal with areas such as PsycINFO, Relative risk, Mindfulness and Cohort study as well as Meta-analysis. His Pediatrics research includes elements of Stroke and Odds ratio.

Best Publications

  • A review of empirical studies on the model of effort-reward imbalance at work: reducing occupational stress by implementing a new theory.

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Norito Kawakami

  • Participatory intervention for workplace improvements on mental health and job performance among blue-collar workers: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Makiko Nagami;Toru Yoshikawa;Kazutaka Kogi

  • What accounts for the relationship between social class and smoking cessation? Results of a path analysis.

    Kaori Honjo;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Ichiro Kawachi;Norito Kawakami

  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury

    Jian Li;Frank Pega;Yuka Ujita;Chantal Brisson

  • The Stress Check Program: a new national policy for monitoring and screening psychosocial stress in the workplace in Japan

    Norito Kawakami;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • The Japanese version of the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire : a study in dental technicians

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Tatsuya Ishitake;Richard Peter;Johannes Siegrist

  • Association between psychosocial job characteristics and insomnia: an investigation using two relevant job stress models—the demand-control-support (DCS) model and the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) model

    Atsuhiko Ota;Takeshi Masue;Nobufumi Yasuda;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • Prospective study on occupational stress and risk of stroke.

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Kazunori Kayaba;Kazuomi Kario;Shizukiyo Ishikawa

  • Dietary Patterns and Levels of Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids in a Japanese Population

    Atsuko Sadakane;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Tadao Gotoh;Shizukiyo Ishikawa

  • Psychosocial job characteristics and insomnia: a prospective cohort study using the Demand-Control-Support (DCS) and Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) job stress models.

    Atsuhiko Ota;Takeshi Masue;Nobufumi Yasuda;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • Development of a Short Questionnaire to Measure an Extended Set of Job Demands, Job Resources, and Positive Health Outcomes: The New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire

    Akiomi Inoue;Norito Kawakami;Teruichi Shimomitsu;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • Workplace bullying could play important roles in the relationships between job strain and symptoms of depression and sleep disturbance.

    Jiro Takaki;Toshiyo Taniguchi;Etsuko Fukuoka;Yasuhito Fujii

  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury

    Alexis Descatha;Grace Sembajwe;Frank Pega;Yuka Ujita

  • Comparison of acute and chronic impact of adaptive servo‐ventilation on left chamber geometry and function in patients with chronic heart failure

    Nobuhiko Haruki;Masaaki Takeuchi;Kyoko Kaku;Hidetoshi Yoshitani

  • Socioeconomic determinants of bullying in the workplace: a national representative sample in Japan

    Kanami Tsuno;Norito Kawakami;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Akihito Shimazu

  • Association between job characteristics and health behaviors in Japanese rural workers

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Kazunori Kayaba;Manabu Yoshimura;Machi Sawada

  • Low control at work and the risk of suicide in Japanese men: a prospective cohort study.

    Akizumi Tsutsumi;Kazunori Kayaba;Toshiyuki Ojima;Shizukiyo Ishikawa

  • Lipoprotein(a) levels in the Japanese population: influence of age and sex, and relation to atherosclerotic risk factors. The Jichi Medical School Cohort Study.

    Naoki Nago;Kazunori Kayaba;Jun Hiraoka;Hitoshi Matsuo

  • Japanese dietary pattern consistently relates to low depressive symptoms and it is modified by job strain and worksite supports

    Tomoko Suzuki;Koichi Miyaki;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Hideki Hashimoto

  • Incidence of total stroke, stroke subtypes, and myocardial infarction in the Japanese population: the JMS Cohort Study.

    Shizukiyo Ishikawa;Kazunori Kayaba;Tadao Gotoh;Naoki Nago

  • Effects of web-based supervisor training on supervisor support and psychological distress among workers: a randomized controlled trial.

    Norito Kawakami;Yuka Kobayashi;Soshi Takao;Akizumi Tsutsumi

  • Interpersonal Conflict, Social Support, and Burnout among Home Care Workers in Japan

    Kyoko Fujiwara;Eri Tsukishima;Akizumi Tsutsumi;Norito Kawakami

Frequent Co-Authors

Akihito Shimazu
Akihito Shimazu Keio University
Reiner Rugulies
Reiner Rugulies University of Copenhagen
Annette Prüss-Ustün
Annette Prüss-Ustün World Health Organization
Peter M. Smith
Peter M. Smith University of Toronto
Els Clays
Els Clays Ghent University
Noboru Iwata
Noboru Iwata Kiryu University

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