Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Hye Sook Park

4 Articles

Multilevel Analysis of Risk Factors Related to Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Caterers for Elementary School Lunch Services: Kyung Hee Jung-Choi, Sang Yun Lee, Myung Ki, Kee Hong Cho, Hee Tae Kang, Young Jun Kwon, Hyun Joo Kim, Myoung Hee Kim, Kyoung Bok Min, Hye Sook Park, Jeong Youn Kim, Eun Hee Ha, Do Myung Paek; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2004;16(4):436-449. Published online December 31, 2004; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2004.16.4.436

OBJECTIVES
To examine the complaint proportion and characteristics of musculoskeletal symptoms and to find risk factors of musculoskeletal symptoms among caterers for school lunch services.
METHODS
The study subjects were 385 caterers who were working for school lunch services in 71 elementary schools and 114 housewives who had visited a hospital for routine health check-up. A self-recording questionnaire was used to investigate the general characteristics, labor conditions, job stress and nature of musculoskeletal symptom. Caterers were surveyed from September to October in 2003 and the housewives during September by post. The ergonomic risk factors were examined for the caterers of an elementary school in Kyonggi Province in November, 2003.
RESULTS
The complaint proportion of self-reported positive musculoskeletal symptoms was 52.0% and that of severe musculoskeletal symptoms was 24.9%. Ergonomic assessment revealed that washing the dishes, carrying the soup containers and cleaning the sewage drain were highly risky activities in terms of repetitive and heavy weight-bearing motions. As for personal factors, the caterers having severe musculoskeletal symptoms had high psychological job demand. As for the workplace factors, the proportion of schools having severe musculoskeletal symptoms was significant higher where each caterer prepared more than 150 lunches. Among schools without school lunchroom, more schools had caterers having severe musculoskeletal symptoms. Using multilevel analysis, we found that the number of lunches to be prepared per caterer was a significant risk factor of severe musculoskeletal symptoms (O.R. 4.67).
CONCLUSIONS
This study showed that the number of lunches prepared per caterer has a significant influence on the development of musculoskeletal disorder and that caterers work in an ergonomically highly risky job environment. The study results suggest that the number of caterers be increased to decrease the number of lunches prepared per caterer and the ergonomic environment be improved.

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The Development of Health Risk Appraisal at the Worksite: Eun Hee Ha, Heui Sug Jo, Hye Sook Park, Yun Chul Hong, Hyun Sul Lim, Gyu Chul Chung, Yong Ae Lee; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998;10(4):548-561. Published online December 31, 1998; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1998.10.4.548

Abstract PDF: Health Risk Appraisal(HRA) is usually defined as a process by which we expect of individual's chances of death or acquiring specific diseases within a defined period of time. The concept of worksite as an area of health maintenance and promotion is newly developing. Our movement for health promotion of employees has been increasingly known in the worksite. The aim of this study is to develop health risk appraisal tools about health promotion at the worksite for employees. We performed this study by two steps: one step was to develop a HRA questionnaire of worksites in Korea, another was to evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire. For developing HRA questionnaire, we reviewed scientific examples at first, and then weighted the score by delphi. To evaluate the reliability of developed questionnaire, we carried out survey by test-retest method. A total of 131 employees completed HRA questionnaire on two times. The results are as follows. The total score of health risk in unhealthy workers was higher than that of healthy workers. The range of test-retest reliability of responses to the questionnaire was 0.57-0.94. Therefore it seems that this questionnaire was very suitable to assess the health behavior of workers. In conclusion, the developed HRA questionnaire can be used as a tool for evaluating health behavior and for providing health counseling materials.

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Job Performance of Occupational Health Personnel: Yun Chul Hong, Eun Hee Ha, Kyung Ja Jun, Young Man Rho, Hye Sook Park, Heui Sug Jo, Hun Jae Lee, Mi Ran Yang; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1997;9(3):496-507. Published online October 31, 1997; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1997.9.3.496

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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2013; 43(4): 507. CrossRef
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing.2011; 20(3): 250. CrossRef

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Phototoxic Dermatitis by Coal Tar Containing Paint: Yun Chul Hong, Eun Hee Ha, Hye Sook Park; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1997;9(2):267-274. Published online June 30, 1997; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1997.9.2.267

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Many workers who used coal tar containing paints in shipyard industry have dermatitis, but the etiology is not known well. Our research is to fond out the etiology of the dermatitis and to provide proper management. Methods of this research are comprised of 3 steps. First, we diagnosed dermatitis by questionnaire and dermatologic examination and evaluated air level of coal tar pitch volatiles in workplace. Second, we confirmed coal tar phototoxicity by in vitro cell experiments. Third, we evaluated the effects of intervention. The results were as follows ; Questionnaire survey showed that the lesions of dermatitis were mainly on the sun exposed area and the symptoms were strongly associated with season, weather, and time. Air levels of coal tar pitch volatiles in workplace were higher than NIOSH standard (0.1 mg/m(3), cyclohexane solubles). Inhibitory effects of cellular proliferation by coal tar containing paints and UVA (365nm) exposure showed coal tar phototoxicity. Intervention was done by UV barrier cream(BPF 30) and 72.7% workers who applied UV barrier cream improved after 2 months later. Conclusively, the etiology of dermatitis of shipyard workers who used coal tar containing paint was coal tar phototoxicity, and this dermatitis would be protected by UV barrier cream.

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