Personality self-representations of patients with hand injury, and its relationship with work injury

Chau, Nearkasèn; d'Houtaud, A; Gruber, M; Monhoven, N; Gavillot, C.; Pétry, D.; Bourgkard, Ève; Guillaume, Sébastien; Jm, André

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“…Our studies found that, like occupational factors, the personal ones such as regular alcohol use, sleep disorders, altered health status, frequent psychotropic drug use, and chronic diseases (especially musculoskeletal disorders), as well as physical, seeing, hearing, and cognitive disabilities, which may affect working capacity of the workers, also played a role in the injuries. Lack of education, self-reported personality traits, risk-taking behavior, and large family were the other known risk factors [3,4,11,26] identified in our studies. Strong disparities were observed between the Indian and French miners concerning contribution of the studied personal factors to the associations between occupational factors and occupational injuries.…”

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The role of occupational activities and work environment in occupational injury and interplay of personal factors in various age groups among Indian and French coalminers

Bhattacherjee¹,

Kunar²,

Baumann³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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Objective: The role of occupational hazards in occupational injury may be mediated by individual factors across various age groups. This study assessed the role of occupational hazards as well as contribution of individual factors to injuries among Indian and French coalminers. Material and Methods: We conducted a case-control study on 245 injured workers and on 330 controls without any injuries from Indian coal mines using face-to-face interviews, and a retrospective study on 516 French coalminers using a self-administered questionnaire including potential occupational and personal factors. Data were analyzed using logistic models. Results: The annual rate of injuries was 5.5% for Indian coalminers and 14.9% for the French ones. Logistic model including all occupational factors showed that major injury causes were: hand-tools, material handling, machines, and environment/work-geological/strata conditions among Indian miners (adjusted oddsratios 2.01 to 3.30) and biomechanical exposure score among French miners (adjusted odds-ratio 3.01 for score the 1-4, 3.47 for the score 5-7, and 7.26 for score ≥ 8, vs. score 0). Personal factors among Indian and French coalminers reduced/ exacerbated the roles of various occupational hazards to a different extent depending on workers' age. Conclusion: We conclude that injury roles of occupational hazards were reduced or exacerbated by personal factors depending on workers' age in both populations. This knowledge is useful when designing prevention which should definitely consider workers' age.

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“…Physical disability and cognitive disability scores had scale reliability coefficients of 0.67 and 0.74, respectively. With regard to personality, the subjects were asked whether they considered themselves: sociable, organized, aggressive (Yes / No) [24,26].…”

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The role of occupational activities and work environment in occupational injury and interplay of personal factors in various age groups among Indian and French coalminers

Bhattacherjee¹,

Kunar²,

Baumann³

et al. 2013

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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“…The quality of the completed questionnaires was very good (non-responses for various items <4%). As previously mentioned, all factors studied were validated and had been used elsewhere [7][8][9][10]. The items used to assess personality were chosen for their simplicity and because they have been associated with increased risk of accidents and with tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use [7,8].…”

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“…Parents gave written consent. The study protocol was as follows: [7,8]. With regard to psychotropic drugs, subjects were asked whether they frequently used medication (prescribed and non-prescribed) during the previous 12 months for headache, tiredness, nervousness or anxiety, or insomnia (Yes/No) [5,9,10].…”

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Do male and female adolescents differ in the effect of individual and family characteristics on their use of psychotropic drugs?

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“…In France, the railway firm employs 184,000 workers, and its annual incidence rate of occupational injuries with sick leave is also about 4%. Preventive measures are therefore necessary to reduce the injuries, and they should concern work conditions [5][6][7] , but also training 8) , living conditions (smoking [8][9][10][11][12] , alcohol use [11][12][13][14] , physical activities 12,15) , body weight 16,17) , sleep disorders 16,18,19) , health status and disabilities 7,20) , and other risk factors such as young age 7,8,[21][22][23] , job knowledge and experience 8,21,24) , risk perception, personality and behavior [25][26][27] ). But these risk factors have been identified in few specific populations only, and it is difficult to generalize and apply the findings to other populations.…”

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Correlates of Occupational Injuries for Various Jobs in Railway Workers: A Case‐Control Study

Chau

Mur

Touron³

et al. 2004

Journal of Occupational Health

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Correlates of Occupational Injuries for Various Jobs in Railway Workers: A Case‐Control Study: Nearkasen Chau, et al. National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Unit 420, Faculté de Medicine, France—Few studies have simultaneously addressed the role of occupational factors, individual characteristics and living conditions in occupational injuries, and to the best of our knowledge none on railway workers. This survey assessed the roles of these factors in various types of injuries and for various jobs in French railway workers. This case‐control study was conducted on 1,305 male workers with an occupational injury during a one‐year period and 1,305 male controls. A standardized questionnaire was administrated by an occupational physician. Data were analyzed by the logistic regression method. The significant factors found for all the injuries combined were: young age (<30 yr) (adjusted odds ratio 1.47, 95% CI 1.01–2.14), 5 yr or less in present job (1.43, 1.15–1.78), sleep disorders (1.30, 1.08–1.57), current smoker (1.27, 1.08–1.50), and no do‐it‐yourself or gardening activity (1.23, 1.02– 1.48). Young age, sleep disorders, and smoking were common for several types of injuries. The role of these factors differed between various job categories. Among injured workers sick leaves of eight days or over were more frequent in current smokers and overweight subjects. In conclusion, young age, lack of experience, job dissatisfaction, sleep disorders, smoking, and lack of physical activity increase the risk of occupational injuries. The risks induced were related with jobs. Preventive measures concerning work conditions and these factors could be conducted in railway workers generally, and especially in workers most at risk. The occupational physician could make workers more sensitive to these risks and help them to improve their living conditions during medical examinations.

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Personality self-representations of patients with hand injury, and its relationship with work injury

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

The role of occupational activities and work environment in occupational injury and interplay of personal factors in various age groups among Indian and French coalminers

The role of occupational activities and work environment in occupational injury and interplay of personal factors in various age groups among Indian and French coalminers

Do male and female adolescents differ in the effect of individual and family characteristics on their use of psychotropic drugs?

Correlates of Occupational Injuries for Various Jobs in Railway Workers: A Case‐Control Study

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