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Occupational stress and psychological health impact on hypertension of miners in noisy environment in Wulumuqi, China: a case-control study
- Source :
- BMC Public Health, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Abstract Background Hypertension has been declared as a global public health crisis by the World Health Organization, because of its high prevalence. It affects the health of one billion people worldwide and is directly responsible for the deaths of more than 10 million people per year. The purpose of our research was to explore the influence of occupational stress and psychological health on hypertension of miners who work in a noisy environment and provide decision reference for relevant departments to keep miners’ health. Methods A case-control study was carried out in this research. The study subjects were divided into case groups and control groups based on whether they had hypertension or not. Effort-Reward Imbalance questionnaire and Self-Reporting Inventory questionnaire were used to investigate the psychological health status and occupational stress of the target population. General information was balanced between case and control groups through propensity score matching method. After propensity score matching, a multifactorial analysis was used to explore the impact of occupational stress and psychological health on hypertension. Results According to the result of the multivariate analysis, psychological health was hazard to hypertension (t = 5.080, P
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14712458
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- BMC Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.f281755c7c134170b56b2110b950d054
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09760-9