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Physically and psychologically hazardous jobs and mental health in Thailand.
- Source :
- Health Promotion International; Sep2015, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p531-541, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- This paper investigates associations between hazardous jobs, mental health and wellbeing among Thai adults. In 2005, 87 134 distance-learning students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University completed a self-administered questionnaire; at the 2009 follow-up 60 569 again participated. Job characteristics were reported in 2005, psychological distress and life satisfaction were reported in both 2005 and 2009. We derived two composite variables grading psychologically and physically hazardous jobs and reported adjusted odds ratios (AOR) from multivariate logistic regressions. Analyses focused on cohort members in paid work: the total was 62 332 at 2005 baseline and 41 671 at 2009 follow-up. Crosssectional AORs linking psychologically hazardous jobs to psychological distress ranged from 1.52 (one hazard) to 4.48 (four hazards) for males and a corresponding 1.34-3.76 for females. Similarly AORs for physically hazardous jobs were 1.75 (one hazard) to 2.76 (four or more hazards) for males and 1.70-3.19 for females. A similar magnitude of associations was found between psychologically adverse jobs and low life satisfaction (AORs of 1.34-4.34 among males and 1.18-3.63 among females). Longitudinal analyses confirm these cross-sectional relationships. Thus, significant dose– response associations were found linking hazardous job exposures in 2005 to mental health and wellbeing in 2009. The health impacts of psychologically and physically hazardous jobs in developed, Western countries are equally evident in transitioning Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand. Regulation and monitoring of work conditions will become increasingly important to the health and wellbeing of the Thai workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFIDENCE intervals
INDUSTRIAL hygiene
JOB descriptions
JOB security
LONGITUDINAL method
MENTAL health
MULTIVARIATE analysis
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH funding
SATISFACTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
LOGISTIC regression analysis
OCCUPATIONAL hazards
WELL-being
CROSS-sectional method
DATA analysis software
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09574824
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Promotion International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 109281590
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dat080