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KMID : 0384920050140020118
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2005 Volume.14 No. 2 p.118 ~ p.128
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Symptom Prevalence and Related Factors of Work Related Musculo-Skeletal Diseases at Small & Medium Scale Industries of Incheon
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Choi Mee-Kyoung
Kim Young-Sook
Lee Ryoun-Sook
Seong Nak-Jeong
Han Sang-Hwan
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Abstract
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A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the prevalence and related factors of musuculoskeletal symptoms in automobile manufacturing, steel processing, electric assembly line, and wood processing industries. A study subjects were 3,434 workers from small and medium scale companies of Incheon. Walk-through surveys were performed from Feb. of 2004 to Oct. of 2004 to investigate various physical work factors. Symptom prevalence rate by related factors was that women worker showed higher rate than man, and married person was higher than single person. For the working year, group of person who were working less than 3 year showed the highest rate. However, the group of person who were working more than 10 hour per day showed the highest rate. For the total subjects, prevalence of symptoms by body area was as follows: shoulder symptoms were the most frequently reported symptoms(253 person, 7.0%), followed by back(155 person, 4.5%), hand or fingers (136 person, 4.0%), lower extremities(131 person, 3.9%), neck(108 person, 3.1%), and elbow symptoms(97 person, 2.8%).
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KEYWORD
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Musculoskeletal diseases, Prevalence studies, Work place
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