scholarly journals Associations between Workplace Violence, Mental Health and Physical Health among Korean Employees: The Fifth Korea Youth Working Conditions Survey (2017)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hae Ran Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Industry Experience

Abstract Background This study assessed workplace violence experiences among Korean employees and its influence on mental and physical health.Methods Using the 2017 Fifth Korea Youth Working Conditions Survey, 50,205 workers were analyzed. Experiences of workplace violence were assessed across four categories: verbal violence, unwanted sexual attention, threatening behavior, and humiliation. Mental health included anxiety, sleep problems, depressive symptoms, and physical health included hearing loss/dermatological problems, back pain, limbs myalgia, headache/eye stain, occupational injury, and overall fatigue.Results Experience of workplace violence was more common among workers with poor health (subjectively measured), chronic disease, long weekly working hours, shift work, or jobs in the service industry. Experience of workplace violence was associated with increased anxiety, sleep problems, depression symptoms, and physical health problems.Conclusions Prevention of workplace violence is essential to improve the health of workers.

Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

2021 ◽  
pp. 216507992110238
Author(s):  
Hae Ran Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Background: Workplace violence (WPV) is a global public health problem and a threat to the health of Korean workers. This study assessed the prevalence and risk factors of WPV and its association with mental and physical health among Korean workers. Methods: Data obtained for 50,205 respondents to the Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey were utilized for this study. Verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were assessed individually and as a composite for “any WPV.” Workers were characterized by education, income, shift work status, access to a health and safety education program, work sector and overall health. Descriptive analyses and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the prevalence of WPV and its association with mental and physical health. Findings: Overall, 5.6% of workers reported experiencing one of four forms of WPV. The prevalence of verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were 4.9%, 0.7%, 0.2%, and 1.1%, respectively. Most perpetrators were customers. Prevalence of WPV was associated with lower education level, poor health status, long working hours, shift work, and no experience of health and safety education; 9.0% of service workers experienced violence. Workers who had experienced WPV were more likely to experience anxiety, sleep-related problems, depressive symptoms, back pain, headache/eye strain, and overall fatigue. Conclusions/Applications to Practice: Workplace violence is a serious occupational and public health concern in Korea. These results suggest managing WPV may improve workers’ well-being and that violence-prevention strategies, policies, and regulations should be implemented across most industries.

scholarly journals Perceived mental health, wellbeing and associated factors among Nepali migrant and non-migrant workers: A qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hridaya Raj Devkota ◽  
Bishnu Bhandari ◽  
Pratik Adhikary
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

AbstractBackgroundPoor mental health and illness among the working population have serious socio-economic and public health consequences for both the individual and society/country. With a dramatic increase in work migration over the past decades, there is recent concern about the health and wellbeing of migrant workers and their accessibility to healthcare services in destination countries. This study aimed to explore the mental health and wellbeing experiences of Nepali returnee-migrants and non-migrant workers, and identify their perception on the risk factors for poor health and health service accessibility for them.MethodsThis qualitative study was conducted among Nepali migrant and non-migrant workers in February 2020. Four focus group discussions (n=25) and 15 in-depth interviews were conducted with male non-migrant and returnee migrant workers from Gulf countries and Malaysia. The discussions and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, translated into English and analysed thematically.ResultMigrant workers reported a higher risk of developing adverse mental health conditions than non-migrant workers. In addition, fever, upper respiratory infection, abdominal pain, ulcer, and occupational injuries were common health problems among both migrant and non-migrant workers. Other major illnesses reported by the migrant workers were heat burns and rashes, snake-bites, dengue, malaria, gallstone, kidney failure, and sexually transmitted diseases, while non-migrants reported hypertension, diabetes, and heart diseases. Adverse living and working conditions including exploitation and abuse by employers, lack of privacy and congested accommodation, language barriers, long hours’ hard physical work without breaks, and unhealthy lifestyles were the contributing factors to migrant workers’ poor mental and physical health. Both migrant and non-migrants reported poor compliance of job conditions and labor protection by their employers such as application of safety measures at work, provision of insurance and healthcare facilities that affected for their wellbeing negatively. Family problems compounded by constant financial burdens and unmet expectations were the most important factors linked with migrant workers’ poor mental health condition.ConclusionBoth migrant and non-migrant workers experienced poor mental and physical health condition largely affected by their adverse living and working conditions, unmet familial and financial needs and adherence to unhealthy life styles. It is needed to ensure the compliance of work agreement by employers and promotion of labor rights in relation to worker’s health and safety. In addition, policy interventions on raising awareness on occupational health risk and effective safety training to all migrant and non-migrant workers are recommended.

scholarly journals Factors Related to Presenteeism among South Korean Workers Exposed to Workplace Psychological Adverse Social Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jee-Seon Yi ◽  
Hyeoneui Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Social Behaviors ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Job Autonomy ◽  
Shift Workers ◽  
South Korean

Presenteeism negatively affects both individuals and society. This study identified factors of presenteeism among workers in South Korea, especially in relation to exposure to adverse social behaviors. Here, an adverse social behavior refers to any forms of workplace violence or intimidation. This study used the data from 23,164 full-time salaried employees, who participated in the fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey. This study attempted to predict presenteeism based on the exposure to adverse social behaviors and working conditions using logistic regression. Presenteeism was reported in 15.9% of the sample. Presenteeism was significantly higher among workers with the following characteristics: females, aged 40 years or older; middle school graduates; over 40 working hours a week; shift workers; no job-related safety information received; exposure to adverse social behavior and discrimination; and those with a high demand for quantitative work, low job autonomy, high emotional demands, and high job stress. The workers exposed to adverse social behavior showed a higher prevalence of presenteeism (41.2%), and low job autonomy was the most significant predictor of presenteeism. The findings of this study suggest that allowing enough autonomy in job-related roles may help alleviate presenteeism among those who have experienced adverse social behavior at work.

scholarly journals Online-Delivered Group and Personal Exercise Programs to Support Low Active Older Adults’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R Beauchamp ◽  
Ryan M Hulteen ◽  
Geralyn R Ruissen ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Ryan E Rhodes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Primary Outcome ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Intervention Effects ◽  
Psychological Flourishing ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

BACKGROUND In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, experts in mental health science emphasized the importance of developing and evaluating approaches to support and maintain the mental health of older adults. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether a group-based exercise program relative to a personal exercise program (both delivered online) and waitlist control (WLC) can improve the psychological health of previously low active older adults during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS The Seniors COVID-19 Pandemic and Exercise (SCOPE) trial was a 3-arm, parallel randomized controlled trial conducted between May and September 2020 in which low active older adults (aged ≥65 years) were recruited via media outlets and social media. After baseline assessments, consented participants were randomized to one of two 12-week exercise programs (delivered online by older adult instructors) or a WLC condition. A total of 241 older adults (n=187 women) provided baseline measures (via online questionnaires), were randomized (n<sub>group</sub>=80, n<sub>personal</sub>=82, n<sub>control</sub>=79), and completed measures every 2 weeks for the duration of the trial. The trial’s primary outcome was psychological flourishing. Secondary outcomes included global measures of mental and physical health, life satisfaction, and depression symptoms. RESULTS The results of latent growth modeling revealed no intervention effects for flourishing, life satisfaction, or depression symptoms (<i>P</i>&gt;.05 for all). Participants in the group condition displayed improved mental health relative to WLC participants over the first 10 weeks (effect size [ES]=0.288-0.601), and although the week 12 effect (ES=0.375) was in the same direction the difference was not statistically significant (<i>P</i>=.089). Participants in the personal condition displayed improved mental health, when compared with WLC participants, in the same medium ES range (ES=0.293-0.565) over the first 8 weeks, and while the effects were of a similar magnitude at weeks 10 (ES=0.455, <i>P</i>=.069) and 12 (ES=0.258, <i>P</i>=.353), they were not statistically significant. In addition, participants in the group condition displayed improvements in physical health when compared with the WLC (ES=0.079-0.496) across all 12 weeks of the study following baseline. No differences were observed between the personal exercise condition and WLC for physical health (slope <i>P</i>=.271). CONCLUSIONS There were no intervention effects for the trial’s primary outcome (ie, psychological flourishing). It is possible that the high levels of psychological flourishing at baseline may have limited the extent to which those indicators could continue to improve further through intervention (ie, potential ceiling effects). However, the intervention effects for mental and physical health point to the potential capacity of low-cost and scalable at-home programs to support the mental and physical health of previously inactive adults in the COVID-19 pandemic. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04412343; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04412343

scholarly journals Heat-related illness risk and associated personal and environmental factors of construction workers during work in summer

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeyasu Kakamu ◽  
Shota Endo ◽  
Tomoo Hidaka ◽  
Yusuke Masuishi ◽  
Hideaki Kasuga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Alcohol Intake ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Summer Season ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Construction Workers

AbstractHeat-related illness (HRI) is a common occupational injury, especially in construction workers. To explore the factors related to HRI risk in construction workers under hot outdoor working conditions, we surveyed vital and environmental data of construction workers in the summer season. Sixty-one workers joined the study and the total number of days when their vital data during working hours and environmental data were recorded was 1165. Heart rate with high-risk HRI was determined using the following formula: 180 − 0.65 × age. As a result of the logistic regression analysis, age, working area, maximum skin temperature, and heart rate immediately after warming up were significantly positively related, and experience of construction was significantly negatively related to heart rate with high-risk HRI. Heart rate immediately after warming up may indicate morning fatigue due to reasons such as insufficient sleep, too much alcohol intake the night before, and sickness. Asking morning conditions may lead to the prevention of HRI. For occupational risk management, monitoring of environmental and personal conditions is required.

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of mental health before and during COVID-19 lockdown in the French population

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Ramiz ◽  
Benjamin Contrand ◽  
Madelyn Yiseth Rojas Castro ◽  
Marion Dupuy ◽  
Li Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background The impact of general population lockdown implemented in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic needs to be evaluated. We describe here a longitudinal study on the mental health of adults in France. Methods We did a secondary analysis of a web-based cohort, initially set up to study home and leisure injuries, in order to measure the consequences of the national lockdown implemented in France from 17 March 2020 to 11 May 2020, and to assess potential vulnerability and resilience factors. Eligible participants were invited to answer an online questionnaire designed to assess their living conditions and health during lockdown. Comparisons were done with answers provided 4.8 years earlier on average. Results On 15th April 2020, we sent email invitations to 9598 participants recruited between November 2014 and December 2019 and 1237 volunteers took part in the study by completing the online questionnaire. The proportion of those with anxiety symptoms markedly increased from 17.3 to 20.1%. The average self-rated level of mental health decreased from 7.77 to 7.58. Women, the elderly and the youngest appeared to be more vulnerable. A small living space (less than 30 m2) was associated with an increase in depression symptoms (PHQ-9 score), and poorer self-rated physical health at recruitment was associated with an increase in anxiety symptoms (GAD-7 score). On the contrary, the average self-rated level of physical health markedly increased from 7.44 to 7.94 between recruitment and lockdown, and the proportion of those who reported a level of 9 or 10 jumped from 25.7% at recruitment to 43.1% during lockdown. Conclusions Mental health deteriorated during lockdown in France during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Overall, self-rated physical health improved but those who experienced a worse physical health were more likely to report anxiety symptoms.

scholarly journals Is it the Way You Live or the Job You Have? Health Effects of Lifestyles and Working Conditions

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Cottini ◽  
Paolo Ghinetti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Physical Hazards ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Self Assessed Health

AbstractThis paper investigates the role of lifestyles (smoking, drinking and obesity) and working conditions (physical hazards, no support from colleagues, job worries and repetitive work) on health. Three alternative systems of simultaneous multivariate probit equations are estimated, one for each health measure: an indicator of self-assessed health, an indicator of physical health, and an indicator of work-related mental health problems, using Danish data for 2000 and 2005. We find that while lifestyles are significant determinants of self-assessed health, they play a minor role for our indicators of physical health and mental health. The effect of lifestyles seems to be dominated by the effect of adverse working conditions, which significantly worsen health. This result is robust for all health dimensions considered.

Working Conditions and Mental Health Status Related With Occupational Injury of Korean Outdoor Workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. e334-e339
Author(s):  
Wanhyung Lee ◽  
Junhyeong Lee ◽  
Ui-Jin Kim ◽  
Jin-Ha Yoon ◽  
Won-Jun Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Injury ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Outdoor Workers

Intimate partner violence and child outcomes at age 10: a pregnancy cohort

2021 ◽  
pp. archdischild-2020-320321
Author(s):  
Deirdre Gartland ◽  
Laura J Conway ◽  
Rebecca Giallo ◽  
Fiona K Mensah ◽  
Fallon Cook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Pregnancy Cohort ◽  
Behavioural Difficulties

ObjectiveAssess the mental health, physical health, cognitive and language development of 10-year old children in families where mothers have reported intimate partner violence (IPV) compared with children with no reported IPV exposure.DesignProspective pregnancy cohort. Maternal report of IPV (Composite Abuse Scale) at 1, 4 and 10 years. Maternal and direct assessment of child mental health (probable psychiatric diagnosis, anxiety and emotional/behavioural difficulties), cognition (IQ and executive function), language (general, pragmatic and receptive) and physical health at 10 years.SettingA subsample of 615 mother–child dyads drawn from a pregnancy cohort of 1507 nulliparous women recruited from six public hospitals in Melbourne, Australia.ResultsAny IPV exposure from infancy to age 10 was associated with poorer child outcomes at age 10. Specifically, twice the odds of a probable psychiatric diagnosis, emotional/behavioural difficulties, impaired language skills (general and pragmatic), and having consulted a health professional about asthma or sleep problems. IPV exposure at age 10 associated with two to three times higher odds of all mental health outcomes, elevated blood pressure and sleep problems. Early life exposure alone (at 1 and/or 4 years) associated with three times higher odds of a general language problem and asthma at age 10.ConclusionThe high prevalence of IPV and increased risk of poorer health and development among children exposed highlights the burden of ill health carried by children in families experiencing IPV. Fewer difficulties where exposure was limited to the early years builds the case for better identification, understanding and resourcing of effective early intervention.

scholarly journals Who maintains good health functioning? The contribution of social, work-related and behavioural factors to mental and physical health functioning trajectories in ageing employees

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 478-487
Author(s):  
Tea Lallukka ◽  
Aapo Hiilamo ◽  
Olli Pietiläinen ◽  
Minna Mänty ◽  
Anne Kouvonen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Physical Functioning ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Job Control ◽  
Mental Health Functioning ◽  
Health Functioning ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Good Sleep

ObjectivesThe determinants of poor functioning and subsequent early exit from work are well established but very little is known about the positive determinants of maintaining good functioning among the ageing workforce. We investigated modifiable determinants of maintaining good mental and physical health functioning.MethodsWe used prospective survey data collected across four waves among the midlife employees of the City of Helsinki, Finland, 2000–2017 (n=3342). Health functioning was repeatedly measured using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) inventory. Trajectories of mental and physical health functioning were separately examined using group-based trajectory analysis. Multinomial logistic regression models were fitted to examine determinants of each trajectory.ResultsFour trajectory solutions for the developmental patterns in health functioning during the follow-up period were selected, with a slightly different shape of the first trajectory for mental and physical functioning: (1) continuously low (mental), low and decreasing (physical), (2) increasing, (3) decreasing and (4) continuously high functioning. After adjustments, the employees in the continuously high mental health functioning group were more likely to have optimal job demands, high job control, no sleep problems and no binge drinking behaviour. Employees in the continuously high physical functioning group had more likely low levels of physically strenuous work and hazardous working environment and no sleep problems and normal weight.ConclusionHigh job control, good sleep and avoiding binge drinking may help maintain good mental health functioning. Low levels of physical or environmental work exposures, good sleep and recommended healthy weight may support maintenance of good physical health functioning among ageing employees.

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