• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.579-587
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• 2017

Objective: The purpose of this study is to measure the workload of Korea coastal ship crew members, to investigate whether they are following work-break time regulations and to identify the main causes of their workload. Background: According to the US Coast Guard, about 33% of human casualties are reported to be due to fatigue, and 30% of marine casualties reported by the British Marine Accident Investigation Agency (MAIB) are attributed to crew fatigue. But the coastal ship are not managed for business hours and breaks despite the harsh environment. Method: The workload of duty crew members on the 100 domestic coastal vessels was measured. It was also investigated whether they are following domestic and international work-break time regulations. Finally, the marine accidents resulted from the fatigue of the crew was analyzed. Results: As a result of workload analysis, the workload on the 42~62% of the vessels exceeded the standard of working time on the related regulation. The workload increased with the number of inbound and outbound ports. Especially, in the system where there are two seafarers, the workload exceeded the working time requirement. As a result of the marine accidents analysis on 100 vessels, it was found that collision and grounding occurred due to fatigue, workload and drowsiness in 7 marine accidents out of 30 marine accidents. Conclusion: It is necessary for the shipping companies to introduce an operation management manual for the management of the crews' workload and reasonable crew arrangement. It is also required for crew members to easily record work times and for shipping companies to manage the record. It would be possible to prevent many marine accidents by providing adequate rest to the crews and flexibly adjusting their working hours. Application: The results of this study can be used as fundamental data to manage crews' fatigue and to make job management manuals.

• 대한물리치료과학회지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.223-234
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• 1994

To investigate the affecting factors to the fatigue and subjective symptoms of adult women, the author analyzed the data from 300 women from 3 groups, manufacture workes, clerical workers and service workers, from august 31, 1993 to the September 30, 1993. Followings are the results there from. 1. For the physical symptoms of fatigue, more than 50 % of respondens comiained were "eye strain" with 73.7 %, "malaise" with 67.0 % "went lay down side" with 60.7 %, "yawing" with 60.3 % and "feel sleep" eith 50.3 % in that order. There was no statistically significant difference between labor woker group, but the fatiger rate was highest among office group. For the mental symptoms. There was no symptom over 50 % of responders complained. For the neurotic symptoms, more than 50 % of respondents complained were "backache" with 53.7 %, "headache" with 49.7 % "shoulder pain" with 54.0 % and "unconfortable" with 43.3 %, in that order, "backache" was higest in manufacture group, but the other symptoms were highest among office group. 2. For the most fatigue weekday, most women answered monday with 56.0 % thursday with 16.3 % and friday with 12.0 % in that order, but saturday was 2.0 %, and sunday was 2.05 labor worker group answered monday was the most fatigue day. 3. 37.7 % of respondents answered afternoon was the most fatigue hours, but 22.0 % was answered evening difference among groups. 4. Nothing to do with the general characteristics, such as age, residence, sleep hours, personality, health status, and exercise, and working conditons such as means to attend office, time to attend office, job satisfaction, work hours, and work years, the mean scores of subjective symptoms of fatigue was highest among office group.

• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.59-75
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• 2001

The purposes of this study were to investigate risk factors of low back pain in civil airmen and to use this information as basis for the back rehabilitation. Subjects of this study were randomly selected 276 civil airmen who had been employed at four airports in Seoul. These data were analyzed by $X^2$ test, t-test, ANOVA, and multiple logistic regression using SAS. The results were as follows: 1) The prevalence of low back pain among 276 civil airmen was 64.9%. 2) The most common cause of low back pain was load lifting (stewardess), long sitting (aircrew A), and long sitting plus training (aircrew B). 3) There were no statistically significant associations among age, height, body weight, and low back pain. 4) No statistically significant relationships were found among the average monthly working time, total working time, average monthly rest time, working year and low back pain. 5) There was statistically significant relation ship between abnormal posture and low back pain (p<.01). 6) There was statistically significant relation ship between fatigue and low back pain among stewardess and aircrew B. 7) There was a statistically significant relationship between job satisfaction and job-related stress (p<.05). 8) In stewardess, higher satisfaction score was associated with less likelihood of low back pain (odds ratio = .80). The results of this study indicate that civil airmen developed chronicity of low back pain due to unfit seat, poor habitual posture, fatigue symptom, and stress or other risk factors. Therefore, there is a need to improve the working environment for the prevention of posture-related low back pain.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.531-539
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• 2021

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of infection anxiety about COVID-19 perceived by home appliance installers and repair technicians on work stress. Methods: To collect data, the purpose of the study was explained through the labor union of domestic home appliance service companies, and a survey was conducted through mobile to 286 home appliance installers and repair technicians who agreed to the survey. Results: As a result of the analysis, it was found that age, fatigue, work satisfaction, visit time, and Corona 19 infection anxiety had a significant effect on work stress. In other words, the higher the age, the higher the fatigue, the lower the job satisfaction, the higher the work stress was when the visit time was more than 30 minutes, and the higher the Corona 19 infection anxiety, the higher the work stress. Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, the following suggestions are made. First, in order to prevent work stress, we propose the development of a workplace health care program that can solve fatigue. Second, it is necessary to prepare a working environment and provide institutional support to reduce work stress by increasing Job satisfaction. Third, a workplace quarantine measures is needed to prevent infection for essential-workers who do face-to-face work in preparation for possible infectious diseases in the future.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2003

Objectives : New organizational work systems, and their impact on the mental health of employees, are considered to beone of the most important topics in the area of industrial health. This study was conducted to compare job characteristics (job demand and decision latitude) levels, and psychosocial distress of workers in acompany introducing to new organizational work systems, to those of workers managed by traditional work systems. Methods ; A study sample of 627 shipbuilding workers (446the new work organizational system and 181 the traditional system) were recruited for this study. A structured-questionnaire was used to assess general characteristics, job characteristics(work demand, decision latitude), and psychosocial distress. Results : The decision latitude was not significantly higher in the new work system compared to the traditional system. However, the job demand was significantly higher in the new work system than in the traditional system. The psychosocial distress was higher within the new work system than the traditional system, but no significant relationships were found. The proportion of increased strain was significantly greater with the new system than the traditional system. Conclusion : These results suggest that increases in the decision latitude did not sufficiently compensate for higher job strain or increased work intensity. If the increase in the decision latitude was temporary, with the typical job demand remaining high, such work can be still be considered to have a job strain Futureresearch should consider psychosocial distress and fatigue as importantproblems caused by new work organizational systems, and should be performed to assess their impact through out industry.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.6782-6792
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• 2014

본 연구는 일개 대학병원 근무자 679명을 대상으로 신체 부담과 근골격계 증상이 직무 스트레스에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 분석 결과 직무스트레스에 영향을 미치는 관련 요인으로는 여성, 저연령층, 미혼, 교대근무자, 8시간 이상 근무자, 근무 경력이 낮은 군이 유의한 변수로 선정되었다. 직무 스트레스 수준은 비흡연(p=0.000), 운동을 하지 않는다(p=0.022) 및 비음주(p=0.038)에서 높았고 통계적으로도 유의한 차이를 보였다. 또한 직무스트레스에 영향을 미치는 관련 변수로 정신적 피로, 근골격계 증상, 피로수준 및 결혼상태가 직무스트레스 위험을 증가시킬 수 있다. 결론적으로 육체적 작업부담과 직무스트레스간의 쌍방향성 상승효과가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 농촌의학ㆍ지역보건
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.39-48
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• 2013

본 연구는 건강취약계층의 건강관리를 위하여 실시되고 있는 방문건강관리을 담당하고 있는 간호사를 대상으로 직무스트레스 및 직무만족도가 조직애착도에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위해 실시하였다. 조사대상자는 일개 도의 방문건강관리 간호사로 130명의 조사결과를 최종적으로 활용하였다. 단순분석결과에서 직무 스트레스 영역 중 직무 불안정에 해당하는 점수가 69.7점으로 가장 높았으며 다음으로 직무 요구가 64.9점으로 높았다. 직무만족도 및 조직애착도는 각각 2.6점과 2.3점이었다. 직무만족도를 매개변수로 하여 조직애착도에 미치는 직무 스트레스의 관련성을 분석한 결과 직무요구와 직무 불안정은 직무 만족도가 부분 매개하였으며 나머지 스트레스 영역은 직무 만족도가 직무스트레스와 조직애착도간의 관련성을 완전매개하고 있었다. 이상의 결과로 보아, 방문건강관리 간호사들의 조직애착도를 높이기 위해서는 직무 요구도 파악과 직무에 대한 불안정감을 해소하는 것이 우선 실시되어야 할 것이다.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the meaning of job experiences of fixed night shift nurses participating in a pilot project by a tertiary hospital, and to provide basic information for improving their night shift working environment. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study was conducted using individual interviews in September 2022. Three female nurses who worked fixed night shifts were recruited from a tertiary hospital. Data were analyzed using content analysis. Results: By analyzing the meaning of job experience as a fixed night shift nurse, four categories and nine subcategories were identified. The four categories of job experience of fixed night shift nurses were: expecting an improvement physical health due to predictable working hours, enjoying leisure time due to long off-duty hours, regretting for loosened relationships, and considering a successful settlement of fixed night shift nursing. Conclusion: As night shift work is essential for nurses to provide continuous nursing to patients, it is necessary to develop various strategies to improve the physical health of night shift nurses through fatigue management and good sleep quality, mental health through work-life harmony, and social health through intimate relationships between patients and coworkers.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.160-166
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• 2016

승무원의 피로는 해양사고의 주요 원인으로 인식되고 있다. 해양사고 원인의 대부분을 차지하는 인적오류를 예방하기 위한 다양한 방안이 강구되고 있으나 인적요인에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 승무원의 피로에 관한 체계적인 연구는 아직 미흡한 실정이다. 본 연구는 교원 학생 직원, 그리고 남성 여성과 같이 다양한 승선경력 및 업무 형태를 가지고 있는 실습선 한바다호 승무원 128명을 대상으로 87일간의 해양실크로드 항해탐험 동안 이들의 피로도 변화를 분석하였다. 승선기간에 따른 승무원의 피로도 변화는 설문조사와 간호사의 개별 면담을 통해 이루어졌고, 수집된 데이터는 정량적인 통계 처리를 실시하여 피로도 요인으로 분류한 후, 승선 집단별로 피로도 요인의 변화를 비교하였다. 연구 결과 승무원의 피로도 요인은 정신적 피로도, 생리적 피로도, 신체적 피로도로 분류되었고, 승선기간에 따른 직위별, 성별 피로도 변화에 대한 반복측정 분산분석 결과, 직위별로는 교수 부원 집단이 학생 집단보다 정신적, 신체적 피로도를 더 많이 느끼는 것으로 나타났고, 성별로는 여성 승무원이 남성 승무원에 비해 신체적 피로도를 더 많이 느끼는 것으로 나타났다.

• 감성과학
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2002

자동차의 운전은 지각, 의사결정, 운동능력 등 다양한 능력을 필요로 하는 복잡한 행동의 연속이고, 지속적인 고도의 의식집중이나 외부자극에 대한 긴장감이 유발되므로 운전자는 피로를 느끼게 되며, 이러한 피로는 교통사고의 원인이 되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 복잡한 도시생활, 교통체증, 직업적인 특성 등에 의하여 운전자가 차량 내에서 보내는 시간은 증가하고 있고, 그에 따른 피로나 스트레스를 피할 수 없는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 산소공급에 의한 운전 중 피로경감의 가능성을 알아 보기 위하여 주관적인 평가 및 반응시간 테스트를 통하여 각각 다른 산소농도를 공급할 때의 주행시간 경과에 따른 운전 피로감을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 주관적 피로감은 저농도(18%)의 산소조건에서 가장 피로를 많이 느끼고 고농도(30%)의 산소조건에서의 피로감은 상대적으로 감소하였다. 졸림감도 1시간 이상 주행시간이 경과된 경우에 고농도 산소조건에서 상대적으로 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 또한, 주행 2시간 후에 급정거의 지시로부터 브레이크에 반응하는 시간은 저농도의 산소조건에 비하여 고농도의 산소조건에서 유의하게 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 결과로부터 자동차 운전 중에 산소농도가 저하되면 현저하게 피로를 느끼게 되고, 고농도의 산소를 공급하는 경우는 상대적으로 피로감이 저하되며 반응시간이 단축되는 것으로 나타나, 산소공급에 의하여 운전자의 피로가 경감될 수 있다고 시사되었다.