THI (Todai Health Index)에 依한 産業場 勤勞者들의 建康實態調査 = The Status on Health of Workers in Workplaces by THI

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted from September 1 to November 30, 1979 in order to evaluate the psychosomatic health status of manufacturing industries workers.
The data were obtainod from the samples of manufacturing industries in Korea and their 1,294 employees. In addition, the 803 urban residents including students, office clerks, and general publics were sampled as control groups to compare with factory employees in psychosomatic analysis. The basic tool employed in the present study was the Todai Health Index (THI) which modified CMI and was developed by Tokyo University Research Team of Japan.
The data by industry, length of working service, marital status, age and sex were collected. The results obtained were summarized as follows:
1. The responses of psychosomatic complaints wrer much higher in industrial workers than in urban residents, except the responses of depression and aggressiveness (p<0.05).
2. The responses of psychosomatic complaints were much higher that both the female and male group in steel shop group than in other industrial groups. The psychosomatic symptoms which industrial workers and urban residents complained frequently were nervousness, aggressiveness and lie scale in order.
3. The, responses of psychosomatic complaints by sex were much higher in female group than in male group, except the response of aggressiveness.
4. The responses of psychosmatic complaints by age were that both the female and male group showed an increasing tendency in the physical symptoms as age increased.
5. The responses of psychosomatic compaints by the length of working services were that both the female and male group showed a tendency of increasing in the physical symptoms as working years increased.
6. There were higher in the responses of psychosomatic complaints in married group than in unmarried group in the physical symptoms.