Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Jae Hee Yu

3 Articles

The Effectiveness of an Intervention Program for Subway Operators for Symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder After the Persons Had Fallen Under a Train: Suk Kyong Choi, Kang Sook Lee, Seon Young Lee, Jae Hee Yu, A Rum Hong, Jeong Ho Chae, Sei Jin Chang; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2010;22(1):29-36. Published online March 31, 2010; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2010.22.1.29

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to evaluate the level of job stress in subway workers and to determine the main factors that aggravated their PTSD(Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) symptom, which were due to having fallen under a train, and to verify the effectiveness of the intervention program.
METHODS
The questionnaires utilized in the survey were composed of the Korean Occupational Stress Scale (the short form, 24 items), the depression scale, the coping scale II, the PTSD scale and the life style, health status and occupational properties. The intervention program for PTSD symptoms was executed for 18 subway operators who had experienced deadly accidents in their service from June 2004 to May 2006. The intervention programs included exercise, meditation and deep breathing for 8 weeks and a written message was sent twice per week.
RESULTS
Compared with pre-intervention, the post-intervention group showed significantly lower scores for the KOSS, depressive symptom and the PTSD.
CONCLUSION
This study showed the intervention program was effective to lower the job stress, the PTSD symptoms and depressive symptoms, and to improve the coping skills. It was suggested that the mental health promotion program should be implemented for subway workers to prevent occupational mental diseases.

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The Relationship Between Job Stress and Quality of Life for Hospital Workers by Type of Employment: Eun Sook Jeon, Kang Sook Lee, Seon Young Lee, Jae Hee Yu, A Rum Hong; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2009;21(1):28-37. Published online March 31, 2009; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2009.21.1.28

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OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between job stress and quality of life for hospital workers by type of employment.
METHODS
Data were obtained for 361 workers in a large hospital 172 of whom were categorized as typical workers defined by permanent employee and 189 of whom were categorized as atypical workers defined by fixed-term contraction. Job stress was assessed using the Korean Occupational Stress Scale-Short Form and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF Questionnaire RESULTS: Atypical workers had significantly higher scores for job-related stress in the domains of insufficient control, over work, job insecurity, and lack of reward in the workplace compared with typical workers, who had higher scores for stress in the domains of job demands and occupational climate. Test scores also indicated that typical workers had a significantly better quality of life than atypical workers, especially in terms of mental health, social relationships and environment.
CONCLUSION
These findings suggested that factors contributing to job-related stress were different between typical and atypical hospital and typical workers are likely to have a better quality of life.

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The Change of Non-smoking Knowledge and Attitude of Intensive Course of Anti-smoking Leadership Training: Seon Young Lee, Kang Sook Lee, Hyun Woo Yim, Jeong Ho Chae, Dae Jin Kim, Jong Hoo Lee, Jae Hee Yu, Sook Kyoung Choi; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2007;19(3):171-178. Published online September 30, 2007; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2007.19.3.171

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OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the effectiveness of an anti-smoking readership training program on the knowledge, attitude and practice in health managers and supervisors in the workplace.
METHODS
We surveyed 482 health managers and supervisors in the workplace from April 2005 to September 2005. The questionnaire included whether or not a smoking cessation program was conducted in their workplace. We assessed before and after educations program about knowledge, attitude and practice for smoking cessation. The 10-hour education program included the benefit of quit smoking, the law for smoking restriction, cognitive therapy, stress management, nicotine addiction, replacement therapy, case study about workplace for anti-smoking policy and program.
RESULTS
For the change in the mean scores of all items in knowledge, attitude and practice were significantly increased after the intervention.
CONCLUSION
Even a short, 10-hour intervention course of anti-smoking leadership training program was effective for improving the knowledge, attitude, practice to quit smoking activity in workplace. Nevertheless, the program effectiveness would be increased by including a re-training course and website support.

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