• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.3-14
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• 1998

To investigate the actual states of farmers syndrome and their related factors, the author surveyed a total of 534 rural residents, resided in Puyeo kun, Chungnam Province, during August 1996. The data were collected from members of an association and their families of agricultural co-operatives, and analysed. Following are the results summarized therefrom; 1. The prevalence rate of farmers syndrome as a whole was 36.7%, but that of female was higher as 45.0% than male as 27.4%. 2. The prevalence rates of farmers syndrome were higher in the group of higher age, shorter education years, longer farming careers, and longer daily farming hours. 3. The prevalence rates of farmers syndrome did not show statistically significantly different among groups of farming categories such as specialize in farming, such as side line, and not farming. 4. Sex, age, and daily farming hours were proved to be a related factors of farmers syndrome by logistic regression analysis. Odds ratio of female group was 2.06 compared with male group, above 70 years age group was 6.24 compared with below 40 years age group, and group of farming more than 8 hours a day was 2.55 compared with not farming group. 5. The mean scores of self-estimated health states of the group with farmers syndrome was lower than those with negative or suspicious farmers syndrome, but the mean scores of psychological symptoms, other than symptoms of farmers syndrome was statistically significantly higher in farmers syndrome group. Consequently, farmers syndrome seems to be not disease entity but symptom complex which is highly related with age and sex. For that reason, there is a need of study on the differentiate the farmers syndrome and chronic musculoskeletal diseases in the aged.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.16-27
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• 1980

Five hundred seventeen farmers(214 males and 303 females), over age 30 and living in Suh San County, Unsan township, were examined to determine the prevalence of peasants syndrome. Using the health interview questionnaire, the farmers were asked whether they had any of eight subjective symptoms during the past one month before the survey, October 1979. Those symptoms reported were scored based on a pre-determined point system. The farmers with high symptom scores(7 points or more) were further examined by the liver function test. In addition, all the sample(517 cases) were subjected to the examination of urinalysis and blood pressure. The liver function test is also undertaken for those farmers with high symptome scores(7 points or more) and those with abnormal findings in urinalysis and blood pressure. The results are summarized below: 1) 156 out of 517 farmers(30.2%) have had seven points or more of the symptom scores. Among the eight major symptoms, 72% of the farmers complained of lumbago. 2) The prevalence of peasant's syndrome were higher among females and the older age group. The symptom scores of this syndrome were slightly higher among women who have had many children (e. g. 4 or more). 3) The prevalence of peasant's syndrome was also related to the level of one's education-the lower education groups were found to have higher symptom scores of this syndrome. This may be due to the fact that the lower education groups are more exposed to manual labor. 4) The points of the peasants syndrome were higher in hypertensive farmers and those with abnormal findings of urinaly sis. 5) It was reported, in Japan, that those with high scores of the syndrome are more likely to have an abnormal findings in the liver function test. However, in this study it was observed that there was no significant difference between those with high scores of the syndrome (7 points or more) and those with low score of the syndrome(6 points or less) in the prevalence of abnormal liver function. As this study indicates that the point system given for the peasant's syndrome is closely related to the high bleod pressure and abnormal urinalysis(and to some extent to the abnormal liver function), there is a need to study peasant's syndrome more extensively. Such an effort will serve to detect varonic disease conditions among farmer's towards better management of farmer's health, which is vitally important for rural development in Korea.

• 월간낙농육우
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• 제27권7호통권303호
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• pp.192-197
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• 2007

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.5-13
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• 1994

To investigate the cause of Farmers' Syndrome, this study was done in some rural areas of Kyoungsangam Province, from July to August of 1993. 117 men and 112 women were completed interview, medical examination and laboratory examination. The results were as follows. 1. The prevalence of Farmers' Syndrome in women was 509 per 1,000 and it was significantly higher than that in men, 329 per 1,000(p=0.0026). Prevalence of age adjusted with rural population of Kyungsangnam Province of 1985 was 204 per 1,000 in men and 383 per 1,000 in women. The average age of subjects with Farmers' Syndrome, 58.9 was significantly higher than that of subjects without Farmers' Syndrome, 53.2(p<0.001). 2. The most frequent symptom was lumbago(27.7%), and the second was numb limbs(21.6%), and the third was shoulder stiffness(20.9%). Less than 10% of study subjects complained of breathlessness, sleeplessness, dizziness. Women complained of shoulder stiffness(p<0.001), lumbago(p<0.001), numb limbs(p<0.05), dizziness(p<0.001), abdominal fullness(p<0.001) significantly frequently than men. 3. Those aged 50 or more complained of shoulder stiffness(p<0.001), lumbago(p<0.01), numb limbs(p<0.001), nocturia(p<0.001), breathlessness(p<0.05), sleeplessness (p<0.05) and dizziness(p<0.05) significantly frequently than those aged less than 50. 4. By logistic regression, the risk factors significantly associated with Farmers' Syndrome were age(odds ratio(OR)=1.05, 95% confidence interval(CI) 1.02-1.07), sex(OR of 75,95% CI 0.58-0.97), and mental stress(OR=1.39, 95% CI 1.03-1.86). 5. By logistic regression, the risk factors significantly associated with each component symptom of Farmers' Syndrome were as follows. There were significant associations between sex(OR of male=0.51) with shoulder stiffness, age(OR=1.04) and mental stress(OR=1.72) with lumbago, age(OR=1.06), regular exercise(OR=0.35) and mental stress(OR=1.63) with numb limbs, age(OR=1.06) and abnormal LFT(OR=1.59) with nocturia, age(OR=1.08) with breathlessness, sex(OR of male=0.56) with dizziness respectively.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.258-273
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• 1994

비닐하우스 재배농민들이 일반농민에 비해 신체증상 호소율이 더 높은 지 조사해 보기 위해 경상북도 성주군의 6개면 지역에서 무작위로 추출된 비닐하우스 재배농민 250명과 일반농민 142명을 대상으로, 일반적 특성, 농작업양상 그리고 농부증의 각 증상에 대한 호소빈도에 대해 1993년 7월 5일부터 10일까지 6일간에 걸쳐 면담조사와 혈압측정을 하였다. 비닐하우스 재배농민이 일반농민에 비해 평균 연령이 적었고, 동거 가족수가 많았고, 농사경력은 짧았으며, 연평균 일일 노동시간과 연간 노동일수가 많았고 연간 가구당 평균 수입이 약 2.6배 많았다(p<0.01). 조사기간인 1993년 6월 한 달에 비닐하우스 재배농민은 농약을 평균 3.4회 살포하여 일반농민보다 약 1.7배 더 많이 살포했고, 년간 16회 이상 살포하는 것으로 나타났으며, 최근 한 달간 농약살포후 중독 경험률은 비닐하우스 재배농민 가운데 39.6%나 되어 일반농민의 25.4% 보다 더 많았다. 농부증 8개 증상 중 비닐하우스 재배농민과 일반농민 남녀가 공통적으로 가장 많이 호소하는 증상은 요통, 수족감각둔화, 어깨결림, 그리고 어지러움이었다. 농부증 양성률은 비닐하우스 재배농민 남자 22.1%, 여자 43.4%, 일반농민 남자 23.2%, 여자 50.7% 로 비닐하우스 재배농민과 일반농민 간에는 뚜렷한 차이가 없었으나 여자들이 남자에 비해 농부증 양성률이 약 2배 더 높았고, 다중 지수형 회귀분석으로 다른 요인의 효과를 조정했을 때는 3.0배 더 높았다(p<0.01). 두 농작업군 모두에서 연령이 증가할수록 농부증 양성률이 증가하는 경향을 보였고, 1세 증가시 농부증 위험도는 3% 증가하였다(p<0.05). 또 최근 한 달간 농약살포 후 중독을 경험했던 농부들이 경험하지 않았던 농부들에 비해 농부증 위험도는 3.7배 였다(p<0.01). 고혈압 유소견율은 일반농민 남녀 각각 22.4%, 13.7%로 비닐하우스 재배농민의 13.5%, 12.0% 에 비해 높게 나타났으며, 고혈압과 농부증 사이에 일정한 관련성은 없었다. 본 연구의 결과로는 비닐하우스 재배농민들이 일반농민들에 비해 특별히 신체증상호소율이 높지 않았다. 중요한 건강문제와 가능한 대책은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 농약살포후 중독이 문제가 되므로 농약을 쓰지 않거나 더 적게 쓰고도 농사를 지을 수 있는 영농법 및 농약을 좀 더 안전하게 살포할 수 있는 방법의 개발, 고온에서도 착용하기 좋고 보호 성능이 좋은 보호구의 개발이 시급히 요구되며, 농약살포시 환기요령과 보호구 착용방법에 대한 교육 등의 강화도 고려되어야 할 것으로 생각된다. 둘째, 농부증 증상 중 흔한 증상들은 농작업 자세 및 과도한 노동에 기인되었을 가능성이 있으므로 신체에 부담을 줄일 수 있는 농기구를 개발하고, 주기적인 휴식 및 운동을 권장해 볼 만하다. 세째, 고혈압 유소견율이 15% 전후로 높으므로 고혈압 관리사업의 강화가 요구된다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.27-36
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• 2008

이 연구에서는 시설참외 농작업자와 수도작 농작업자들의 농부증 유병양상 및 특징을 비교 분석함으로써 시설참외 농작업자들의 농부증 예방을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였다.연구 대상은 일개 농촌지역에 소재하는 시설참외 농작업자 73명, 수도작 농작업자 87명이었다. 자료수집은 연구자로부터 교육을 받은 면접원들에 의해 수행되었으며 자료는 구조화된 설문지를 이용한 직접면접법을 통해 수집하였다. 조사항목은 일반특성, 건강관련 행위, 농작업 관련 특성, 농부증, 농사일 및 관련 증상 등이었다. 인구사회학적 특성은 시설참외 농작업자에서 수도작 농작업자보다 연령이 상대적으로 낮고 학력 및 소득수준은 높은 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 한편, 농작업 종사에 따른 성별, 결혼상태, 동거인 수, 생활행태(흡연, 음주, 운동, 비만) 등의 분포 차이는 없었다. 농작업 종사 경력은 시설참외 및 수도작 농작업자에서 각각 23.4년, 33.9년으로 분포 또한 시설참외 농작업자에서 상대적으로 짧은 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05). 일 농작업 시간은 시설참외 및 수도작 농작업자에서 각각 8.3시간, 6.5시간이었으며, 분포 또한 시설참외 농작업자에서 상대적으로 긴 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05).농부증 총점수는 시설참외 농작업자(5.9)에서 수도작 농작업자(4.6)보다 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 농부증 유병률은 시설참외 농작업자(38.4%)에서 수도작 농작업자(22.6%)보다 높은 분포를 나타내었으나 유의수준은 경계성(p=0.059)을 나타내고 있었다. 직접표준화 방법을 이용하여 연령을 보정한 결과에서의 농부증 유병률은 시설참외 농작업자에서 수도작 농작업자보다 높은 분포를 나타내었다(p<0.05).농부증 증상은 두 군 모두 어깨결림 및 요통, 야간빈뇨, 수족감각 둔화에서 높은 분포를 나타박종섭, 오경재 9내었으며 특히 어깨결림, 허리통증, 야간빈뇨 등은 시설참외 농작업자에서 수도작 농작업자보다 상대적으로 높게 분포하는 것으로 나타났다(p<0.05).이러한 연구결과로부터 시설참외 농작업자들에서의 농부증 유병률을 예방하고 관리하기 위해서는 상대적으로 과중한 노동강도 및 노동시간에 노출됨을 방지할 수 있는 농작업 환경 개선, 농기구의 개발, 주기적 휴식 및 운동 등의 방안이 다른 농작업보다 적극적으로 마련되어야 할 것이다.Acknowledgement이 논문은 2006년도 원광대학교의 교비지원에 의해서 수행되었습니다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2009

이 연구는 농촌주민들의 건강증진행위, 건강문제, 지각된 건강상태, 농부증에 대해 알아봄으로써 농촌주민을 위한 맞춤형 건강증진프로그램 개발에 기초자료를 제공하기 위해 시도되었다. 연구대상자는 전국 보건진료소 1,875개소 중 지역별 임의표출한 19개 보건진료소의 농촌지역에 거주자 637명을 대상으로 이루어졌으며, 2006년 2월 6일부터 2월 27일까지 자료수집을 실시하였다. 자료 분석 방법은 SPSS 12.0을 이용하여 서술적 통계, 평균과 표준편차, Pearson Correlation Coefficient로 분석하였다. 이 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 농촌주민의 건강증진행위 평균평점은 2.23점으로 나타났으며, 하위영역별로 영양이 2.42점, 영적성장 2.33점, 대인관계 2.30점, 스트레스관리 2.19점, 건강책임이 2.17점, 신체활동이 2.07점으로 가장 적게 수행하는 것으로 나타났다. 농촌주민의 신체계통별 건강문제에서는 근골격계에 대한 건강문제가 가장 많은 것으로 나타났으며, 그 다음이 피로, 눈 귀, 심장혈관계, 소화기계, 신경계, 비뇨생식기계, 호흡기계, 피부의 순으로 나타났고, 농부증 양성율이 98.4%로 나타났으며, 여성이 남성보다 농부증 점수가 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 농촌주민의 지각된 건강상태는 보통, 1년 전과 비교 시 마찬가지이다, 하고 싶은 것이 있으나 건강상태에 약간의 문제가 있다, 동년배와 비교했을 때 건강상태가 '비슷하다'에 응답율이 가장 높았고 지각된 건강상태의 평균점수는 8.54점으로 나타났다. 농촌주민의 건강증진행위, 건강문제, 지각된 건강상태와 농부증 간의 상관관계에서는 건강증진 행위와 지각된 건강상태 간에 유의한 양의 상관관계가 있었고, 건강증진행위와 농부증 간에 유의한 음의 상관관계가 있었다. 건강문제와 지각된 건강상태 간에 유의한 음의 상관관계, 건강문제와 농부증과도 유의한 양의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 지각된 건강상태와 농부증간에 유의한 음의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 농촌주민의 다양한 건강문제와 농부증 발생률을 감소시키고 건강증진행위를 증진시키기 위해서는 지역 환경적인 요소를 고려한 농촌주민을 위한 맞춤형 건강증진프로그램의 개발 및 실시가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.1499-1512
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• 2014

The purposes of this study are to assess pig farmers' preference for highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) vaccine, and estimate the cost and benefit of PRRS vaccination in Vietnam. This study employed an integrated epidemiological and economic analysis which combined susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model, choice experiment (CE) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA) together. The result of SIR model showed the basic reproduction number ($R_0$) of PRRS transmission in this study is 1.3, consequently, the optimal vaccination percentage is 26%. The results of CE in this study indicate that Vietnam pig farmers are showing a high preference for the PRRS vaccine. However, their mean willingness to pay is lower than the potential cost of PRRS vaccine. It can be considered to be one of the reasons that the PRRS vaccination ratio is still low in Vietnam. The results of CBA specified from the whole society's point of view (Social perspective), the benefits of PRRS vaccination are 2.3 to 4.5 times larger than the costs. To support policy making for increasing the PRRS vaccination proportion, this study indicates two ways to increase the vaccination proportion: i) decrease vaccine price by providing a subsidy, ii) provide compensation of culling only for PRRS vaccinated pigs.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.97-113
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• 1999

To investigate the actual condition of the adult-smoking in Chinan County. I used self-reporting questionnaires among 923 residents living in nine districts selected at random among the sites of eleven eup-myons from December 28. 1998 to January 6. 1999. collected data and analyized using SPSS. The smoking rate of adults in Chinan County was $36.9\%$. There was a significant difference in smoking rate according to the age. gender, education and job among general characteristics. The smoking rate in group of above 40s was about $40\%$ and that of the male took $55.5\%$ which was higher than that of female and the smoking rate of the people having high-school education was the highest$(46.2\%)$. With regard to the career. the smoking rate of the farmers ranked first$(46.1\%)$. Therefore anti-smoking business for smokers should be focused on above 40 years old, males. people having high school education and farmers. As the result of the survey of smoking habits of 340 people who smoke currently, the average smoking begining age was 21.8 and $81.5\%$ among them was between 16-25 years old. $4.4\%$ was under 15. during around the elementary school. Most motives to smoke were as followed; curiosity or taste$(33.6\%)$, relief of stress $(31.2\%)$, peer presure$(26.5\%)$ And considering the amount of the cigarette which is smoked per day, the case which is less than a pack of cigarettes was highest as $75.5\%$ and the people who smoke over one pack of cigarettes took $24.5\%$. As for the kind of tobacco which is smoked, how to smoke and the desire for the smoking, most case was toxin was moderate$(47.8\%)$ or mild$(46.9\%)$. shallowly$(49.0\%)$ or deeply$(46.3\%)$ and under stress$(33.4\%)$. after meals$(27.8\%)$, during drink$(15.7\%)$ and so on. The highest point marked among the factors of smoking motives was 'the reduce of negative emotion' $(3.27\pm1.00)$. followed by 'uncomfortable habits' $(2.87\pm1.02)$, 'addiction' $(2.84\pm1.06)$. 'habit' $(2.74\pm1.12)$. 'pleasure' $(2.70\pm1.04)$. 'stimulus' $(2.59\pm.90)$, 'sensation-exercise satisfaction' $(2.42\pm.97)$. Smokers smoke to reduce the negative emotions when angry in most common case. depressed. anxious. uncomfortable. lone. ashamed or embarrased. and intend to solve the certain problem. etc. Other motives are uncomfortable habit. addiction. habit. pleasure and the pursuit of stimulus. The level of nicotine dependence of adults m Chinan County was 10.57 which amount to 'high' wholly. As the resulf of the level of nicotine dependence score. the people who are low in the level of nicotine was $33.5\%$. the people who are high was $48.2\%$. very high was $18.4\%$. The approach for anti-smoking for smokers should be conducted differently according to the level of the nicotine. For the people who are in low level of nicotin dependence the prohibition of the smoking should be guided through the approach to foster strong will. for those who are in 'high' by acquiring proper method for the prohibition of smoking. and for those who are 'very high' the anti-smoking should be induced by providing proper program because of the possibility of the suffer from abstinence syndrome. The difference of the level of nicotine with the general characteristics of the objects had not statistically significant difference. The difference of the level of nicotine dependence accompanied by smoking habit had statistically significant difference according to the amount of smoke, the kind of tobacos. smoke inhale habit. In other words, the group of heavy smokers had higher level of the nicotine dependence than that of the light smokers relatively and the group which smoke strong taboaco has higher level of nicotine than that of which smoke mild or moderate. And the group of smokers who smoke deeply has higher level of nicotine than that who smoke shallowly or nonswallow. Aa a result of the analysis of the correlation between smoking motive factors and the level of nicotine, there was the indication that people who smoke for the decrease of the negative emotion. habit, pleasure. stimulus. sensation-exercise satisfaction had high level of the nicotine dependence. As the result of the anti-smoking will of smokers. $65.0\%$ of them had prohibition of smoking will. $29.3\%$ had no will to quit smoke. The most important reason for anti-smoking was health. $67.9\%$ had experience to try to quit smoke and the biggest reason to fail to quit smoking was the lack of the will power to keep anti-smoking. $52.8\%$ of them were advised to stop smoking from their spouses or children. only $2.8\%$ were by medical. The people who have the opinion to need anti-smoking education were $69.6\%$. Therefore when the business for the hygine of the mouth for adult is set. it should be centered on the people who have intention of prohibition of the smoking and help to quit smoking by way of other affirmative counter-program not smoking under stress.