The symptoms of farmer’s syndrome that occurred to Korean farmers are due to the specific characteristics of Korean agriculture, and the basic reasons are poverty and less-privileged rural cultural life originated from social and political
conditions. Then the purposes of this study are to investigate farmer’s syndrome of farmers and to get substantial data to make a strategy that could prevent diseases. @ES The results are as follows ;
@EN 1. The most common symptom was lumbago(83.0%) among the 7 kinds of symptoms of farmer’s syndrome. And it was more common among women who deliver babies and also work house chores and in farms than men(p<0.05).
2. The numbers of symptoms of farmer’s syndrome increased as age increases and, 71.4% of those aged 70-79 complained some of the symptoms.
3. The accident rate due to agricultural machine was significantly higher in men than women(p<0.05). By frequency contusion was the most common trauma, fall, fracture were the nexts, and the age group with highest accident rate(40%) was those aged 20-29.
4. To see the significantly correlated factors between faemer’s syndrome and sociodemo-graphic variables, the more the numbers of family members were, the more lumbago and the less heartburn occurred. And the less gross income was the more frequent nocturnal urinary frequency occurred, and the wider the farming land was the more frequent noctural urinary frequency occurred.
5. As result of correlation coefficient between the numbers of illnesses and sociodemo-graphic variables, the family was and the larger the farming land was the more illnesses the subjects had, and those without spouses had more illnesses.
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