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Document ID (ISN)75729
CIS number 00-1610
ISSN - Serial title 0019-8366 - Industrial Health
Year 1999
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Ueno S., Hisanaga N., Jonai H., Shibata E., Kamijima M.
Title Association between musculoskeletal pain in Japanese construction workers and job, age, alcohol consumption and smoking
Bibliographic information Oct. 1999, Vol.37, No.4, p.449-456. Illus. 37 ref.
Abstract A cross-sectional epidemiologic study was conducted to determine the prevalence of self-reported musculoskeletal pain (MSP) in construction workers and identify associations between MSP and job, age, alcohol consumption and smoking. Risk factors for total pain and for relatively severe pain in the hand/arm (RS-HAP), shoulder, and low-back (RS-LBP) were estimated by multiple logistic regression analysis. The results showed that musculoskeletal pain was significantly associated with age, and that the odds ratios (ORs) for relatively severe musculoskeletal pain increased almost linearly with age. Regarding the occupation, compared with architects whose work is presumed to be sedentary, almost all ORs for non-sedentary construction jobs were significantly high. Current smokers of 20 cigarettes a day or more had significantly higher ORs for RS-HAP and RS-LBP than for persons who never smoked.
Descriptors (primary) alcoholism; smoking; construction industry; backache; musculoskeletal diseases
Descriptors (secondary) sedentary work; Japan; frequency rates; cross-sectional study; age-linked differences; questionnaire survey
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceJapan
Subject(s) Construction industry
Broad subject area(s) Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
Construction industry and civil engineering
Alcohol and drug abuse
Smoking