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KMID : 1171820060210040001
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Journal of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering
2006 Volume.21 No. 4 p.1 ~ p.10
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A subjective symptom on indoor air quality in dental hygienist
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Choi Mi-Suk
Son Bu-Soon
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Abstract
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This research is based on self-filling survey which 220 dental hygienists who work in seoul participated on July 2006 through August 2006. This survey was analyzed the experience item and occurred time of the symptoms and the time of acute and vanish of the symptoms that dental office’s working environment effects on physical subjective symptom . We suggest a plan to minimizing physical subjective symptom for health manage of dental hygienist. We found out the fact that dental hygienists were unsatisfied with hospital air condition and this polluted air condition cause them physical subjective symptom in work place. As follows analyzed results ventilation time is below the 3-times a day. this may be have some trouble in indoor air quality. The experience the symptoms level is higher then non-experience level in "Fatigue and sleepiness", “Dorsalgia, omarthralgia, cervicodynia”, "Hypersensitivity", "Dry eye, itch, smarting", "Headaches" and a subjective symptom is occurred at after 11:00(am) more then 60%, 50% of the dental hygienist. This experience the symptom’ pain is vanished after the work and reduced when go out the office and building, respectively. The ratio of the experience the symptoms and starting time the symptoms is anywhere from 12 noon to 4 pm (73.2%) in a day. The time of acute pain the symptoms is anywhere from 12 noon to 4 pm (78.7%) refer to the individual characteristics and work environment.
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KEYWORD
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air quality, dental hygienist, individual characteristics, symptom
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