Preventive measures and lifestyle habits against exertional heat illness in radiation decontamination workers

Autor: Tetsuhito Fukushima, Sei Sato, Takeyasu Kakamu, Shinichi Nakano, Tomohiro Kumagai, Tomoo Hidaka, Shota Endo, Kikuo Koyama
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Hot Temperature
Original
Cross-sectional study
Health Behavior
Heat Stress Disorders
Logistic regression
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Age Distribution
0302 clinical medicine
Heat illness
Japan
Occupational Exposure
Surveys and Questionnaires
Environmental health
medicine
Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Humans
Statistical analysis
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
Workplace
Life Style
Decontamination
030505 public health
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Occupational health management
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Radiation decontamination
Cross-Sectional Studies
Logistic Models
Nuclear Power Plants
Physical therapy
Health behavior
0305 other medical science
Lifestyle habits
business
Zdroj: Journal of Occupational Health
ISSN: 1348-9585
1341-9145
DOI: 10.1539/joh.17-0051-oa
Popis: Objectives: The aim of this study was to reveal the current state of preventive measures and lifestyle habits against heat illness in radiation decontamination workers and to examine whether young radiation decontamination workers take less preventive measures and have worse lifestyle habits than the elder workers. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Self-administered questionnaires were sent to 1,505 radiation decontamination workers in Fukushima, Japan. Five hundred fifty-eight men who replied and answered all questions were included in the statistical analysis. The questionnaire included age, duration of decontamination work, previous occupation, lifestyle habit, and preventive measures for heat illness. We classified age of the respondents into five groups
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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