The relationship between occupational noise and vibration exposure and headache/eyestrain, based on the fourth Korean Working Condition Survey (KWCS)

The individual and combined effect of occupational noise and vibration exposures, on workers' health has not been thoroughly investigated. In order to find better ways to prevent and manage workers' headache, this study aimed to investigate the effects of occupational noise and vibration e...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-05, Vol.12 (5), p.e0177846-e0177846
Main Authors: Kim, Jihyun, Lee, Wanhyung, Won, Jong-Uk, Yoon, Jin-Ha, Seok, Hongdeok, Kim, Yeong-Kwang, Lee, Seunghyun, Roh, Jaehoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Area Under Curve
Asthenopia - epidemiology
Care and treatment
Classification
Confidence intervals
Engineering and Technology
Exposure
Eyes & eyesight
Female
Headache
Headache - epidemiology
Headaches
Health aspects
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Middle Aged
Migraine
Noise
Noise control
Noise levels
Noise prediction
Noise reduction
Noise, Occupational - statistics & numerical data
Occupational Diseases - epidemiology
Occupational exposure
Occupational Exposure - statistics & numerical data
Occupational health
Odds Ratio
Physical Sciences
Prevalence
Prevention
Regression analysis
Republic of Korea - epidemiology
ROC Curve
Shift work
Social Sciences
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vibration
Workers
Working conditions
Young Adult
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Summary:The individual and combined effect of occupational noise and vibration exposures, on workers' health has not been thoroughly investigated. In order to find better ways to prevent and manage workers' headache, this study aimed to investigate the effects of occupational noise and vibration exposure on headache/eyestrain. We used data from the fourth Korean Working Condition Survey (2014). After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 25,751 workers were included. Occupational noise and vibration exposure and the prevalence of headache/eyestrain were investigated by self-reported survey. Chi-square tests were used to compare differences in baseline characteristics between the group with headache/eyestrain and the group without. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated using a logistic regression model adjusted for several covariates. Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUROC) analysis was used to evaluate the effect of occupational noise and/or vibration exposure. Among the 25,751 study subjects, 4,903 had experienced headache/eyestrain in the preceding year. There were significant differences in age, education level, household income, occupational classification, shift work, occupational vibration exposure, and occupational noise exposure between the two groups (all p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0177846