Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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The Relationship between Work Ability and Job Stress Factors in Manufacturing Industries: Sangbum Ye, Dongmug Kang, Youngki Kim, Minjeong Son, Jongeun Kim, Somin Park; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2008;20(3):260-271. Published online September 30, 2008; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2008.20.3.260

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to investigate the association between work ability and job stress factors in three manufacturing industries.
METHODS
The data were gathered from 705 workers of 3 manufacturing industries, from August 2007 to January 2008. A structured, self-reported questionnaire was used to access the demographic, socioeconomic and work related characteristics. Work ability and job stress factors were determined using two questionnaires: the work ability index (WAI) of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS), respectively.
RESULTS
According to the logistic regression analysis results, WAI was related to job stress factors after adjustment for age, shift work, employment type and exercise. Of the eight subscales, job demand, interpersonal conflict, lack of reward, occupational climate and total score were significantly associated with WAI. In the analysis of each factory, interpersonal conflict, job insecurity and lack of reward were significantly associated with WAI in factory II, and organizational system, lack of reward and total score in factory III, but there was no significant association in factory I.
CONCLUSIONS
Job stress factors were significantly associated with WAI in two of the three manufacturing industries. Further and more detailed study needs to be conducted to reduce the job stress and improve the work ability.

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The Relationship between Worker's Health Status and Work Ability Index in Small Scale Factories: Young Ha Lee, Sung Chul Hong, Jong Young Lee; Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998;10(2):149-160. Published online May 31, 1998; DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.1998.10.2.149

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This research was carried out to determine the relationship between worker's health status and work ability index in small scale factories. The data were gathered from 330 workers of Gumi industrial complex, from February to March, 1996. In this study, as questionnaire for the assessment of work ability, We used the work ability index which was developed by Institute of Occupational Health in Finland. The results of the study were summarized as follows; 1) Work ability index was poor in shift work group, more than 9 hours work group, irregular diet group, and stress sensitive group (p<0.01). There were no evident trends of work ability index in sex, marital status, educational level, obesity index, exercise, alcohol drinking and smoking. 2) As comparing work ability index with worker's health status, work ability index was poor in visual correction needed group, urine sugar positive group, and abnormal ALT & AST group (p<0.01) There were no evident trends of work ability index in hearing capacity, blood pressure, hematocrit and urine protein. 3) In the ANOVA was performed to examine the relationship between work ability index and significant factors above 1) and 2). shift work, work hours, diet, stress sensitive and health status were still statistically significant (p<0.05) on work ability index.

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