1. Mental health status in railway female workers and its occupational influencing factors
Fuling JI ; Zhenmei LIU ; Zhisheng LIU ; Jianfan ZOU ; Wenlan YU ; Hongmei LI ; Juan LI ; Lingmin KONG ; Qian JIANG
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases 2018;36(2):102-105
Objective:
To investigate the mental health status of railway female workers and related influencing factors, and to provide a scientific strategy for labor protection regulations in railway female workers.
Methods:
Cluster sampling was used to select 5033 female workers from Jinan, Nanning, Qinghai-Tibet, and Wuhan railway systems in China from January to August, 2016. A uniform reproductive health questionnaire, as well as the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) , was used to investigate their general information (age, marital status, education level, and family income) , work type (day shift, night shift, or work on shift) , work position, and the presence or absence of exposure to occupational hazardous factors. The score on each factor of SCL-90 and the positive rate of mental health status were calculated.
Results:
The positive rate of mental health status was 10.6% in railway female workers. The workers exposed to occupational hazardous factors had a significantly higher positive rate of mental health status than those not exposed to occupational hazardous factors (14.20%