Evaluation of the Life Quality of Workers in a Cement Factory

Demi̇rbağ, Birsel Canan; Bayrak, Betül; Özkan, Çiğdem Gamze; Çaylak, Esra

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.250

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“…Workers with higher exposure duration "more than 20 years" had higher statistically significant job stress score compared to workers with exposure duration less than 10 years (Table 4), this could be explained as younger workers had higher workfamily enrichment, job satisfaction, and vigor, also they had more ability to buffered against negative outcomes related to job insecurity unlike older (Mauno et al 2013). This was inconsistent with other study done in Spain, which deduced that the more experience the workers had, the higher liveliness and mental health scores they got; they were explaining that with more experience, the quality of life increases, so the workers experience happiness out of their works, especially with more accepting their working environments (Demirbag et al 2017) . Other studies showed that age and years of experience had no effect on life quality made with SF-36 scale ( Kurban et al Gholami et al 2013) In the current study, workers with respiratory complains had higher job stress score than workers with no respiratory complain with statistically significance difference (p=0.009) ( Table 3).…”

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Detection of Stress among Workers in a Cement Factory

Elkhayat

Mohamed

Ezzeldien

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Egypt. J. Occup. Med.

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Introduction: Stress is one of the most important work-related psychological health problems. Occupational stress is defined as harmful physical and emotional responses incurred in work environment. Recently, researches focused more on the impact of the psychosocial work environment on health more than physical hazards in the workplace. As a lot of economic problems can result from mental problems among workers such as raising absenteeism, decrease productivity, expensive treatment and labor compensation claims. Aim of work: To study the stress condition among workers in a cement factory in Upper Egypt, and to detect vulnerable workers for stress. Materials and methods:A cross-sectional study was performed included 86 workers from main four departments (quarry, production, packing and maintenance). Pre-designed questionnaire was answered, including personal and occupational histories and specific questions to assess stress; extracted from Job Stress Questionnaire (JSQ), which was created in a study specially made by Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Persons with a total score for physical stress response of 25 points or more are considered to have physical stress response. Results: The current study showed that nearly half of the studied group was current smokers, 22 % worked as farmers in their weekend, 95 % of workers were categorized in low physical job stress response. The mean of job stress score of all studied workers was 14.9 ±4.8, recording highest score 32 and lowest score 11. However, when comparing the job stress difference among workers according to different characteristic; there was statistically significant relationship between job stress and department distribution, duration of exposure, presence of respiratory complains and residency (p< 0.05).Conclusion: Nearly most of the studied workers (95 %) were categorized among low job stress group. However the most vulnerable groups for stress were maintenance workers, workers with respiratory complains, workers with high duration of exposure "more than 20 years", workers resident in urban areas, and supervisors.

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Detection of Stress among Workers in a Cement Factory

Elkhayat

Mohamed

Ezzeldien

et al. 2020

Egypt. J. Occup. Med.

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“…In contrast to the studies conducted using the SF-36 scale, the scores in the present study were lower than the one conducted in a Turkish cement factory, in which SF and P scores were the same [25]. All low scale scores of the workers in this study, excluding that of ELV, were lower than the scores obtained in the study of Demiral et al, which indicates the high level of Turkish society standards [26].…”

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“…The results also alluded to other sociodemographic characteristics, such as marital status and the education level, which had no effect on the life quality, having been consistent with other studies [25,27]. Nevertheless, it was demonstrated in the present study that the single participants had significantly higher MH scores, with the same results having been reported by Demirbag et al [25].…”

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An Evaluation of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Quality of Life among Turkish Workers, 2017

Terzi

Karasu

Arslan

2020

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Article InfoBackground: The examination of workers' health behaviors and their quality of life, as well as providing support in missing areas are important in terms of both occupational health and community health. This study aims to assess workers' quality of life and health-promoting lifestyle in a workplace in 2017 and to determine their relationship with some socio-demographic characteristics. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted from January to March 2017 in Samsun province. A total of 151 workers participated in the study. The data were collected using a questionnaire on workers' socio-demographic characteristics, Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II), and Short Form-36 Quality of Life Scale (SF-36). The mean values were compared using Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U tests. The correlation was evaluated using Spearman's correlation analysis. In addition, p-value 0<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: The workers had an average of 132.48±23.65 points on the HPL profile. In addition, HPL scores were significantly higher in the older age group (p<0.05). However, there was no difference in terms of other socio-demographic characteristics (p>0.05). Besides, there was a positive and low level significant correlation between the workers' HPL scale scores and only four subscales of SF 36 (p<0.05). Conclusion:According to the result of this study, the workers' health-related quality of life was found to be below the Turkish community standards, with the workers' healthy lifestyle behavior having been moderate. In addition, some sociodemographic characteristics had a negligible effect on the quality of life, and healthy lifestyle behaviors positively increased employees' quality of life.

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“…There are contributing aspects to welfare with a different portion that is put in sequence (Banerjee and Banik, 2018), which are economic/viability (man, social aspect/livability (society) and environment aspect/sustainability (nature, shell and network) (Sariffuddin and Susanti, 2011). Meanwhile, according to Demirbağ et al (2017), life quality is determined from psychology, physical, social, economic and satisfaction from both personal and social community aspect. Life quality is assessed based on the welfare of the community (Lim et al, 1999).…”

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Traditional oil miners reach their prosperity: an assessment of social welfare in Wonocolo, Indonesia

Tuzyahroya

Sariffuddin

2020

J.Degrade.Min.Land Manage.

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The purpose of this research was to determine the traditional oil and gas mining community welfare in Wonocolo, Kedewan, Bojonegoro. Welfare hierarchy will explain about needs fulfilment which is needed by the development planning process. The research used a mixed-method which is the result of scoring by quantitative analysis validated by the description of qualitative data. The results of this research indicated that the welfare hierarchy of the traditional oil and gas mining community in Wonocolo is in the ultimate means to intermediate means level, which means they are in low welfare hierarchy. It is shown by the community that still prioritized physiological needs fulfilment rather than self-development necessity. On the other hand, the fulfilment of basic needs taken from nature in Wonocolo is also vulnerable because the water and air are polluted by oil. In addition, the nature of oil that is non-renewable and unsustainable causes an economic vulnerability in Wonocolo community.

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Evaluation of the Life Quality of Workers in a Cement Factory

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Detection of Stress among Workers in a Cement Factory

Detection of Stress among Workers in a Cement Factory

An Evaluation of the Health-Promoting Lifestyle and Quality of Life among Turkish Workers, 2017

Traditional oil miners reach their prosperity: an assessment of social welfare in Wonocolo, Indonesia

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