The Effects of Job Stress of Fire Fighters in Gyeonggi Province on Occupational Injuries
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description: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of job stress of fire fighters on occupational injuries. For this study, we conducted a survey of all employees who work at Gwang Myeong, Gunpo, and Anyang fire station, which are geographically similar and neighboring each other but little different in mobilization(Fire, Rescue, EMT, Civil Service), out of 34 fire station in Gyeonggi province. The survey was conducted from 08th to 12th July 2013 and the data were collected by 370 of structured questionnaires out of 458 that are approved by Institutional Review Board of AJou University(IRB). The results are following. First, as for the difference in occupational injuries according to the general feature of participants and health related behavior, it was depending on marriage, type of work, shift system, subjective health status, and illness and it showed statistically meaningful differences. Second, 20 percents of participants(74 people) have experienced occupational injuries more than once for six months, those who were injured once accounted for 54.9 percents, and 39.2 percents of participants(145 people) have experienced near-misses more than once. Third, in terms of the difference between job stress of the participants and occupational injuries, there were significant difference between total score of each section of job stress and the factor of inappropriate compensation, workplace culture, high and low risk of job requirement. To investigate relevance between job stress and experience of occupational injuries, we conducted Multivariate Analysis which general feature and health related behavior feature is corrected. It shows that the occupational injury risk of 2.58 of inappropriate compensation(95 percent CI 1.34~4.96) and the high risk participants who were 1.93 of job requirement(95 percent, CI 1.02~3.64) were higher than the risk of low risk participants. In conclusion, fire fighters are defined as high-risk participants of job stress, the occupation inju…
abstract: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of job stress of fire fighters on occupational injuries. For this study, we conducted a survey of all employees who work at Gwang Myeong, Gunpo, and Anyang fire station, which are geographically similar and neighboring each other but little different in mobilization(Fire, Rescue, EMT, Civil Service), out of 34 fire station in Gyeonggi province. The survey was conducted from 08th to 12th July 2013 and the data were collected by 370 of structured questionnaires out of 458 that are approved by Institutional Review Board of AJou University(IRB). The results are following. First, as for the difference in occupational injuries according to the general feature of participants and health related behavior, it was depending on marriage, type of work, shift system, subjective health status, and illness and it showed statistically meaningful differences. Second, 20 percents of participants(74 people) have experienced occupational injuries more than once for six months, those who were injured once accounted for 54.9 percents, and 39.2 percents of participants(145 people) have experienced near-misses more than once. Third, in terms of the difference between job stress of the participants and occupational injuries, there were significant difference between total score of each section of job stress and the factor of inappropriate compensation, workplace culture, high and low risk of job requirement. To investigate relevance between job stress and experience of occupational injuries, we conducted Multivariate Analysis which general feature and health related behavior feature is corrected. It shows that the occupational injury risk of 2.58 of inappropriate compensation(95 percent CI 1.34~4.96) and the high risk participants who were 1.93 of job requirement(95 percent, CI 1.02~3.64) were higher than the risk of low risk participants. In conclusion, fire fighters are defined as high-risk participants of job stress, the occupation inju…
author: 장, 혜선
language: ko
keywords: 소방공무원, 업무상 손상, 직무스트레스, Fire Fighters, Occupational Injuries, Job Stress
date published: 2014-11-07
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:51:44Z
provider: Ajou University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Ajou University