Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
Tomoyuki KAWADA(1)
(1)Department of Public Health. Gunma University School of Medicine - Maebashi. Japan
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Tomoyuki KAWADA Department of Public Health Gunma University School of Medicine Showa 3-39-22 Maebashi 371-8511 Japan kawada@akagi.sb.gunma-u.ac.jp |
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[Hygiene, Public Health & Preventive Medicine] |
[Occupational Health] |
This study focused on the relationship between subjective complaints and a type of job. A self-check method of questionnaire on subjective complaints was distributed to all employees of a company. 233 male and 106 female subjects (100% of workers) responded. This questionnaire consists of 96 items, each of which is scored 1 if a complaint exists. The number of subjective complaints is defined as the summation of each item score. The type of work was divided into four categories, which is consisted of manufacturer, clerk, researcher, and manager. There was no category of manager in female.
The items in which the percentage of complaints exceeded 20 % only in female are continuous shoulder or neck stiffness and severe menorrhalgia. Headache, eye strain, dizziness, shoulder or neck stiffness, lumbar or back pain were sometimes complained over 20% both in male and female subjects. Among them, about half of the subjects complained of eye strain, though the VDT workers are under 3% of the target subjects. Related to this figure, 48.3% of the female and 28.5% of male complained of headache.
Principal axis factoring analysis was conducted on 16 items. In men and women, there were six factors, which explained 38.04% and 42.87% of the total variation, respectively. In men, each factor was named as depression and fatigue, coping, worry, physical complaint, sleep induction, and stiff shoulder or neck, respectively. In women, each factor was named as depression, worry, fatigue, shoulder or neck or back pain, personal relationship, and irregular menstruation, respectively.
There was a difference in the mean value of age among four jobs in male. Analysis of covariance controlling for age was conducted, and there was a significant difference in the mean value (p<.05). Though not significant, the mean value in the number of subjective complaints of manufacturer was larger than that of manager (p=.062). In contrast, there was no significant difference in the mean value of subjective complaints among three job categories in female.
Considering the result of our past survey, manager seems to be less stressful because of the freedom of conducting work.
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