An Estimation of Agricultural Work Load by Questionnaire on Subjective Symptoms
10.2185/jjrm.32.860
- VernacularTitle:農作業負担による疲労自覚症状の解析
- Author:
Yasuma Fukuchi
;
Sinya Watanabe
;
Masao Kanamori
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
1983;32(4):860-863
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
There is a great diversity of manner in agricultural daily work compared to other industrial works. Therefore, at the estimation and comparison of farmers' subjective symptoms caused by the work, it should be known the relative grade of the work load of the day compared to those of other working days.
From this viewpoint, in this study, seventy three farmers who had been surveyed the subjective symptoms after daily work 10-16 months before were shown the working record of the day and were made to recall and estimate the grade of the work load and fatigue at that time by five steps rating method. The obtained data were referred to their fatigue symptoms.
