Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.3126/ijosh.v13i4.51630
Sandeep B. Shinde, Shivanee K. Dalvi, Ravindra V. Shinde
Introduction: The third most common musculoskeletal condition is shoulder pain with a prevalence of up to 70%. The second most frequent shoulder condition is subacromial impingement syndrome. Impingement can be classified as either anterosuperior or posterosuperior. Faulty posture, altered scapular or glenohumeral kinematics, posterior capsular tightness, and acromial or coracoacromial arch pathology are all potential extrinsic mechanics that can lead to Subacromial impingement syndrome. The purpose of this review is to find the different variation in translation that takes place in the glenohumeral joint in Subacromial impingement syndrome in overhead workers. Methods: We performed a review of the various translations observed in the glenohumeral joint in subacromial impingement syndrome and discussed the evidence-based studies. For the review, an electronic search for relevant articles using PUBMED, Pedro, Research Gate, and Google Scholar databases up to Dec 2022 was done wherein MeSH search terms and free words were used. Articles underwent the selection process and were selected on the basis of inclusion criteria. Articles were selected based on the author's expertise, self-knowledge and reflective practice. Results: The current study included 11 articles that fulfilled the inclusion criteria suggesting that various humeral translations in overhead workers. The above-reviewed studies provided evidence that based on occupational demands abnormal variations occur. Conclusion: This review has provided an overview of the previous and recent literature on humeral head translation seen in sub-acromial impingement. This study concludes that superior translation is more common as compared to anterior-superior translation and posterior-superior translation.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.3126/ijosh.v13i4.56457
Adriana Garduño-Alanis, Yizel Becerril-Alarcón, Betsy C Sosa-García, Lizbeth Morales-González, Ángeles L Avilés-García, Blanca G Alvarado-Bravo, Hugo Mendieta-Zerón
Introduction: There is a relationship between depression and sleep quality; however, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this association is unknown, especially for those health workers who faced the pandemic. Therefore, we aimed to identify the association between depression and sleep quality in health workers who faced the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A survey was performed on 150 health workers with at least 2 years of working tenure in a public maternal perinatal hospital in Mexico, between September and December 2021. Sociodemographic data, levels of sleep quality, depression, anxiety, and gastrointestinal function were obtained through a self-administered questionnaire. Cardiovascular risk was obtained according to age, lifestyle habits, blood pressure, anthropometry, body composition and biochemical measurements. Results: Those with depression were 10.3 times more likely to have poor sleep quality compared to those without depression, adjusted for gastrointestinal function (95% CI 2.92 – 36.54, p<0.001). Those with depression were 7.23 times more likely to have poor sleep quality compared to those without depression, adjusted for gastrointestinal function, anxiety, and cardiovascular risk (95% CI 1.85-28.14, p<0.001). Conclusion: Health workers’ depression should be considered a predictor of poor sleep quality, especially in those who faced the COVID-19 pandemic.
导读:抑郁症与睡眠质量之间存在一定的关系;然而,COVID-19大流行对这种关联的影响尚不清楚,特别是对那些面临大流行的卫生工作者而言。因此,我们旨在确定面临COVID-19大流行的卫生工作者的抑郁与睡眠质量之间的关联。方法:于2021年9月至12月对墨西哥一家公立围产医院150名工作年限在2年以上的卫生工作者进行调查。社会人口统计数据、睡眠质量水平、抑郁、焦虑和胃肠功能通过自我管理问卷获得。根据年龄、生活习惯、血压、人体测量、身体成分和生化测量来获得心血管风险。结果:经胃肠功能调整后,抑郁症患者睡眠质量差的可能性是无抑郁症患者的10.3倍(95% CI 2.92 - 36.54, p<0.001)。经胃肠道功能、焦虑和心血管风险调整后,抑郁症患者睡眠质量差的可能性是无抑郁症患者的7.23倍(95% CI 1.85-28.14, p<0.001)。结论:卫生工作者抑郁应被视为睡眠质量差的一个预测因素,特别是在面临COVID-19大流行的卫生工作者中。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.3126/ijosh.v13i4.52917
Sweeti Kumari, V. K. Tewari, Sanjeev Kumar
Introduction: Agricultural fields like weed management and horticultural operations are the most common and labor-intensive. Most of these tasks are completed with the help of push-pull-type agricultural machinery. The push-pull tasks are mainly done using agricultural machinery (push-pull weeders, manually operated rice transplanters or seeders, long-handled agricultural tools, etc.) by farm workers. Since these are manually operated machinery, long working hours in awkward positions are expected, which causes physical stress and musculoskeletal disorders in the operators. An electromyography study for agricultural workers during push and pull operations was conducted in this study. Methods: To evaluate muscle activity, a laboratory test setup was developed based on the ergonomic criteria of the uniform force application. Four loads (50, 100, 150, and 200 N) and the four most used upper body muscles (middle deltoid MD, triceps brachii TR, brachioradialis BR, and biceps brachii BI) during push-pull operations were selected for an electromyographic study on twelve medically fit agricultural workers as subjects. This study attempted to minimize muscle activity, thereby reducing overexertion injuries. Results: The most activated muscles during the pushing and pulling operations were TR and BR, respectively. The muscle activity of the TR during the pushing task was found to be 109 µV, 135 µV, 178 µV and 195 µV at loads of 50 N, 100 N, 150 N, and 200 N, respectively. During the pulling task, the muscle activity of the BR was 51 µV, 66 µV, 80 µV, and 126 µV at loads of 50 N, 100 N, 150 N, and 200 N, respectively. Conclusion: For all subjects, a load of 200 N was found difficult to operate compared to other selected loads during push and pull operations. Muscle activation was found to increase with increasing load for each of the selected muscles.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.3126/ijosh.v13i4.52828
Fikrihadi Kurnia, Guntur Samodro
Introduction: Traffic accidents are cases of concern both nationally and internationally. Their impact ranges from injuries to death. In Indonesia, traffic accidents are dominated by students who use motorcycles. With this in mind, this study is focused on identifying the driving attitudes that are responsible for traffic accidents among university students. Methods: The cross-sectional survey study was conducted from January 2023 to February 2023, located in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Data was gathered using simple random sampling on 97 students based on experiences while driving such as safety attitude, frequencies on motorcycle inspections, and driving attitude. The next step is a comparison between results based on student experiences and risk assessment by experts. The expert assessment used two personnel of Police Resort from Yogyakarta and Purworejo, Indonesia. Results: Participants were divided into 81.4% men (N=79) and 18.6% women (N=18), with a mean age ± standard deviation of 21 ± 1.8 years. Awareness of safety attributes is demonstrated by the use of helmets by 92.78% of participants, and motorcycle inspections on rearview mirrors (85.57%), rims & tires (79.38%), and brakes (71.13%). In terms of road driving attitudes, students drive with fatigue (82.47%) and sick (61.86%), drive in bad weather (78.35%), and exceed the standard of speed (53.61%). The results of the risk assessment show that 7 variables have a high risk, namely helmet, inspection on the brake, driving in fatigued physical condition, driving in sick physical condition, using gadgets when driving, traffic sign violation, and overspeeding. Conclusion: Based on these results, it show that students' driving readiness is quite good with the attributes of vehicle safety and feasibility. This is shown by the use of helmets and break checks by students with the highest risk on the road. However, the need to be concerned is that the bad riding attitude includes physical health conditions, driving according to traffic safety standards, and paying attention to weather conditions. Improvements are needed especially by drivers to create safe and secure driving conditions.
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{"title":"Evaluation of the effectiveness of partitions against the spread of smoke mimicking the virus-containing droplets","authors":"Ruiko HASHIMOTO, Ayako SHINRIKI, Satoko TANAKA, Noriko KUSAHARA, Hiroyuki HASHIMOTO","doi":"10.2486/josh.josh-2023-0001-cho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/josh.josh-2023-0001-cho","url":null,"abstract":"日本国内において新型コロナウイルス感染症は,2020年の1月以降, 2023年3月の時点に至るまで,多くの感染者,死者を数える新興感染症である.新型コロナウイルス感染症の感染経路は飛沫感染,接触感染および空気感染といわれており,飲食店等における主な感染防止策は,「密閉,密集,密接の回避」,換気および消毒の実施等とされている.新型コロナウイルス感染症の流行初期から,飲食店等では直接的な飛沫感染の防止策として,様々な形状のパーティションの設置が行われた.本研究では,ヒトのくしゃみにより発生するウイルス含有飛沫を効果的に遮断するパーティションの形状を把握するため,机上設置型のパーティションにウイルス含有飛沫と想定したスモークを噴射し,飛沫感染防止に対する有効性の評価を行った.その結果,すべての形状のパーティションにおいて,対面へのスモークの移行は確認されなかった.特に横衝立型のパーティションにおいては,左右方向へのスモークの拡散が完全に遮られ,対面へのスモーク拡散防止効果は最も良好であると考えられた.","PeriodicalId":34250,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136271514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.2486/josh.josh-2023-001-er
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.2486/josh.josh-2023-002-ka
光俊 鷹屋
{"title":"リスクコミュニケーションは,伝える側だけではできない.","authors":"光俊 鷹屋","doi":"10.2486/josh.josh-2023-002-ka","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/josh.josh-2023-002-ka","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34250,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136279241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness evaluation of Hazard Identification Support Method for Machine designers","authors":"Tsuyoshi SAITO, Yukio HATA","doi":"10.2486/josh.josh-2022-0034-ta","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/josh.josh-2022-0034-ta","url":null,"abstract":"筆者らは,機械の設計段階で実施するリスクアセスメントにおいて最も重要なステップとされる「危険源同定」について,機械安全の知識が限られた設計者でも最低限同定すべき危険源を認識できるように支援する方法を提案した1).そして,支援された危険源同定を実行する手段の例として,デスクトップPC上で動作するアプリケーションツールを試作した1).本報では,試作したツールを用いて,提案した支援方法の有効性を評価した結果について述べる.中小規模の機械製造業者で設計業務に関わる技術者12名を対象に,危険源同定を模擬的に行った上で主観的な意見を収集した.限られた回答数での結果ではあるが,本支援方法が危険源同定の難しさを軽減し,リスクアセスメントに着手する出発点を提供し得る有効な方策であるとの評価を受けた.","PeriodicalId":34250,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135354788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}