FUSHIMI Masahito

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Affiliation

University Health Center 

Research Interests 【 display / non-display

  • Mental Health

  • Industrial Health

  • Occupational Health

  • Psychiatry

  • Psychological distress

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Graduating School 【 display / non-display

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    1990.03

    Akita University   Faculty of Medicine   Graduated

Campus Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2017.04
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    Akita University   Graduate School of Medicine   Part time Lecturer  

  • 2016.04
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    Akita University   University Health Center   Professor  

  • 2016.04
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    Akita University   University Health Center   General Director  

  • 2000.04
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    2003.02

    Akita University   School of Medicine   Research Assistant  

  • 1996.10
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    1998.03

    Akita University   School of Medicine   Research Assistant  

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External Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2003.03
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    2016.03

    Akita Prefectural Center for Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Medicine   Medical Staff  

  • 2003.03
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    2016.03

    Akita Prefectural Mental Health and Welfare Center   General Director  

  • 1998.04
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    2000.03

    Yamamoto Kumiai General Hospital   Medical Staff  

  • 1995.04
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    1996.09

    Imamura Hospital   Medical Staff  

  • 1992.01
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    1995.04

    Yuri Kumiai General Hospital   Medical Staff  

Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display

  • 2016.06
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    Japan

     

    Member of the Japan University Health Association

  • 2016.04
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    Japan

     

    Member of the Japanese National University Council of Health Administration Facilities

  • 2013.11
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    Germany

     

    Member of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Task Force on Men's Mental Health

  • 1998.04
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    Japan

     

    Member of the Akita Medical Association

  • 1998.04
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    Japan

     

    Member of the Japan Medical Association

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display

  • Life Science / Psychiatry

Qualification acquired 【 display / non-display

  • Doctor

 

Research Achievements 【 display / non-display

    ◆Original paper【 display / non-display

  • Factors associated with depressive symptoms among workers employed in Japanese eldercare institutions: a cross-sectional study based on the Job Demand–Control–Support Model

    Masahito Fushimi

    Current Psychology     2022.11

    Research paper (journal)  

    DOI

  • Precarious Employment Is Not Associated with Increased Depressive Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study in Care Service Workers of Japan

    Tanaka O, Maeda E, Fushimi M, Iwata T, Shimizu T, Saito S, Murata K.

    Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine   243 ( 1 ) 19 - 26   2017.09  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)  

  • Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms and Related Factors in Japanese Employees: A Comparative Study between Surveys from 2007 and 2010

    Fushimi M.

    Psychiatry Journal   2015 ( 537073 )   2015.07  [Refereed]

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  • Prevalence of depressive symptoms and related factors in Japanese employees as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)

    Fushimi M, Saito S, Shimizu T.

    Community Mental Health Journal   49 ( 2 ) 236 - 242   2013.04  [Refereed]

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  • Posttraumatic stress in professional firefighters in Japan: rescue efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Dai-Shinsai)

    Fushimi M.

    Prehospital and Disaster Medicine   27 ( 5 ) 416 - 418   2012.10  [Refereed]

    Research paper (journal)   Single author

    DOI

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    ◆Introduction and explanation【 display / non-display

  • Sex differences in suicide rates from the perspective of psychiatric care tailored to men

    Masahito Fushimi

    In: Leo Sher, Timothy R. Rice (eds.), Neurobiology of Men's Mental Health ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. )    119 - 130   2015.09

    Introduction and explanation (others)  

  • Relationships among the Kessler 10 Psychological Distress Scale, Socio-Demographic Status, Employment-Related Variables, and Internality-Externality in Japanese Employees

    Masahito Fushimi

    In: Nancy E. Wodarth, Alexis P. Ferguson (eds.), Psychology Research Summaries Volume 2 ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. )    375 - 376   2015.09

    Introduction and explanation (others)  

  • Effects of job satisfaction and locus of control on psychological distress in Japanese employees

    Masahito Fushimi

    In: iConcept Press Ltd. (ed.), Mental Disorder ( iConcept Press Ltd. )    2014.12

    Introduction and explanation (others)  

  • Relationships among the Kessler 10 Psychological Distress Scale, Socio-Demographic Status, Employment-Related Variables, and Internality-Externality in Japanese Employees.

    Masahito Fushimi.

    In: Lucille T. Cacioppo (ed.), Mind and Body Research Summaries Volume 2 ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. )    7 - 8   2013.11

    Introduction and explanation (others)   Single author

  • Relationships among the Kessler 10 psychological distress scale, socio-demographic status, employment-related variables, and internality-externality in Japanese employees

    Masahito Fushimi

    In: Hayate Ohayashi, Shuji Yamada (eds.), Psychological Distress: Symptoms, Causes and Coping ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. )    83 - 102   2012.04

    Introduction and explanation (others)   Single author

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    ◆Other【 display / non-display

  • Workplace Lifestyle Factors and Depressive Symptoms: A Study of Japanese Organizations

    Masahito Fushimi

    Disease and Health: Research Developments Vol. 5 ( BP International )    73 - 87   2025.02

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  • Work Psychology and Occupational Health: An Editorial

    Fushimi M.

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ( International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health )  22 ( 1 )   2025.01

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  • Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Students in Japan: A Literature Review

    Masahito Fushimi

    Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 1 ( B P International )    57 - 81   2024.01

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  • The mental health of students during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan

    Masahito Fushimi

    Advances in Health and Disease Vol. 78 ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. )    1 - 33   2023.12

  • Has the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic suppressed the increase in suicide rates in population outflow areas?

    Fushimi M.

    Asian Journal of Psychiatry ( Asian Journal of Psychiatry )  85   103620 - 103620   2023.07

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  • Work Psychology and Occupational Health

    Masahito Fushimi

    MDPI  2025.02 ISBN: 978-3-7258-3180-7

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  • The Impact of the Corona Crisis on Suicidal Behavior: Research Insights based on Situational Analysis of Suicides in Japan

    Masahito Fushimi

    ElivaPress  2023.07 ISBN: 978-99949-8-859-4

    Chapter 1. Suicides in Japan before the COVID-19 pandemic: Report on suicide-prone areas in Japan
    Chapter 2. Completed and attempted suicides in Japan before the COVID-19 pandemic: Report on suicide-prone areas in Japan
    Chapter 3. Suicides in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of gender differences: COVID-19 pandemic may be a factor in the rising suicide numbers among women
    Chapter 4. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide in youngsters: COVID-19 pandemic may be a factor in the increasing suicide numbers among female students
    Chapter 5. Concerns over the psychological burden on young individuals experiencing an era in which suicides have increased: the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide in young individuals
    Chapter 6. The possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic was a factor that encouraged suicide attempters to complete suicide: Examination of suicides in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic by gender and age
    Chapter 7. Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the suicide methods taken by suicide attempts: Possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the lethal methods of suicides in Japan
    Chapter 8. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide related to population migration: Comparison of overpopulated and depopulated areas in Japan
    Chapter 9. The possibility that suicides in population outflow areas were suppressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic: Comparison of population migration and suicide rates in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Chapter 10. Conclusion

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  • Relationships Among the Kessler 10 Psychological Distress Scale, Socio-Demographic Status, Employment-Related Variables, And Internality-Externality In Japanese Employees

    Masahito Fushimi

    Nova Science Publishers, Inc.   2013.01 ISBN: 978-1-62257-985-3

    Among developed nations, Japan has one of the world’s highest suicide rates. Mental health problems such as anxiety or depressive disorders are considered major public health issues, given that the likelihood of suicide is linked to these disorders. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of and factors related to psychological distress among employees in Japan. (Imprint: Nova)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 【 display / non-display

  • Suicide related behaviors in college students with neurodevelopmental disorders

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)

    Project Year: 2017.04  -  2021.03 

  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)

    Project Year: 2002.04  -  2003.02 

Presentations 【 display / non-display

  • Suicide in Akita prefecture, Japan

    Masahito Fushimi

    "Clinical Risk Management in Mental Health" in 9th World Congress on "Innovations in Psychiatry - 2007" World Forum for Mental Health  2007.03  -  2007.03 

  • Chronic PLEDs in a Patient with Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions

    Fushimi M, Sekine A, Matsubuchi N, Shimizu T.

    XII World Congress of Psychiatry  2002.08  -  2002.08 

  • Event related potentials (ERPs) and brain atrophy in mildly demented patients

    Fushimi M, Niiyama Y, Satoh N, Hishikawa Y, Sashi R, Fujiwara R, Inaniwa C.

    XIth International Conference on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain (EPIC XI)  1995.06  -  1995.06 

 

Academic Activity 【 display / non-display

  • 第46回全国大学メンタルヘルス学会総会

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  • 2022.12
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  • Member of the Japan University Health Association

    2021.06
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  • Member of the Japan University Health Association

    2016.12
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