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This studs was conducted to investigate the kinds of health promotion program which workers want, workers intention for participation, proper method, time, duration and manager A self-administered questionnaire method was used to collect data from 41 employees of 3 worksites in Chungpook and Kyungkee. This survey was carried out from Aug. 10 to Aug. 20, 1998. The results of this study are as follows: 1. In male, among health promotion programs, favorite ones were physical fitness (32.2%), periodic health check-up(24.6%). arid stress management( 18.0%). In female, among health promotion programs, favorite ones were periodic health check-up(26.0%), physical fitness(22.0%). and body weight control(1 9.5%). 2. The more young subjects are, the more they like physical fitness program, and the female like body weight control program regardless of BMI. Manufacturing worker preferred back pain prevention program to clerical worker did. In female, drinker preferred stress management program to non-drinker did. 3. The more old subjects are, the more they like back pain prevention program, and non-smoker preferred body weight control program to smoker did 4. In health promotion program format which the subjects wanted, learning of self examination techniques was 41. 1% worksite screening was 31.0%, audiovisual of parnphlets and audiovisual materials was 20.0%, presentation of worksite educational sessions was 7.9%. and the most wanted manager for the program was medical doctor and then nurse. physical trainer, psychological counselor, The favorite health promotion program duration was less than 30 minutes(49.6%). and the favorite time was before work(49.6%). 5. Among respondents. 48.5% was smokers 81. 8% was drinkers, 399% engaged in th~ regular exercise, 68.2% engaged in regular diet habit. In vaccination. 50.2%. ifpossible, wanted to be vaccinated and 37.6% never wanted to be vaccinated. 6. Ex-smoker. ex-drinker, the subjects in the regular exercise, and in the regular diet habit responded they were in good health, There was a significant difference between exercise and health status, Need and intention for participation of health promotion program were high in ex-smoker, ox-drinker, the subjects in the regular exercise. and in the regular diet habit. According to results for this studs, if the favorite programs, exercise, periodic health check up. stress management program, are operated at a proper time and with managers they want, this programs can really raise the. participation of employees And as employees want to learn self examination techniques if worksite educational sessions are performed, health promotion program can effectively be operated.

The purpose of this study was to identify health promoting behaviors(HPBs) and the related determinants affecting to women workers health based on the New Health Promotion Model by Pender(1996) Data were collected by self-reported questionnaires from 208 women workers at the 8 electronic manufacturing factories under the permission of data collection and cooperation with health managers in the factories during the period from September to October 1999. For data analysis. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and Stepwise mutiple regression with SPSS/PC+7.5 version were used. The results were as follows 1. The average score for the HPBs, consisted of 6 subdimensions was 2.05. The highest mean score was 2.29 in Spiritual growth and the lowest one was 1.66 in Physical activity? 2. No significant difference between general charateristics and HPBs were found. 3. HPBs were positively related to Prior related behavior (r=0.369, p<0.1), self-efficacy (r 0.340. p( .01),social support (r=0.350, pK.Ol). Commitment to a plan action r0.374, p(.Ol). There was no significant correlation between perceived health status. perceived barriers to action and HPBs. 4. The most important variable in HPBs was commitment to a plan action? It. was explained 14.0% out of the total variance of lIPBs. commitment to a plan action? prior related behavior social support self efficacy and perceived barriers to action explained 23 0%. According to the results of this study, the suggestions were as follows 1. It is necessary to develop program for improving the physical activity and health responsibility of women workers at the manufacturing industry 2. To facilitate and maintain HPBs of women workers, nurses may enhance and plan mutually interactive active HPBs with women workers. 3. Social support at the level of individual workers, supervisors, and the organization is required in order to conduct health promotion program at the factories. 4. Significantly related variables to HIPBs should be identified the direct and indirect paths among them further more.

For the purpose of disclosing the mental health status as well as its stress factors of female workers in industry, a questionaire survey was carried out on 283 female workers, namely. 134 of a service industry(deparment store) in seoul and 149 of a manufacturing industry(food) in Kyunggi-do district from 24 to 29 January. 1994. The result were as follows : 1. The mean scores of poor mental health indicator showed no significant difference between service industry and manufacturing industry, while the mean score of good mental health indicator showed a significant difference between those two industries. 2. The mean scores of work stress factors social stress factors showed a significant difference between service industry and manufacturing industry. However . no significant difference was observed between the mean scores of personal stress factor between those two industries. 3. In general, the work stress factor was more significantly contributed by marital status, while the social stress as well as the personal stress factor were contributed more by monthly income. 4. The major contributing factor to the poor mental health was the personal stress factor in general, followed by the work stress factor. However, the weight of these two stress factors was reversed according to the type of industries.

The EMG(Electromyography) analysis was used to identify the fact the dept cc of inclined step was selected as dependent variable and feet muscle fatigue was selected as a independent variable. In a final result from EMG test, the shift iii median frequency (ME) with 20. 25. 30. ? degtce of inclined steps indicated that 30 degree step was identified as most effective for a decrease in feet muscle fatigue. In a department store, 80% of the workers arc female standing sales workers. They work at standing on average 10 hours per day. They performed heavy duty jobs such as lifting. lowering, packing and carrying heavy materials. Furthermore, even though they have work shoes. they usually use various kind of high heels. Eventually, this situation develops low-back-pain (LBP) problems for female workers. In conclusion, it is recommended that a particular branch in a department store claimed this step can effectively to circulate blood and significantly decrease feet muscle fatigue in lower extremity.

To investigate industrial fatigue and low back pain, the questionaire e survey for subjective symptoms of fatigue and low back pain was carried out j05 nurses in general hospital in Korea. Nurses participated to this study were divided into low back pain group(LBP)and control group, according to the self-reports by written questionaires. The subjective sysptoms of fatigue comprised three groups of 10 items each, representing dullness and sleepiness (level of cerebral activation) difficulty in concentration(level of motivation) and bodily projection of fatigue The resultant data were processed for x2 --lest. t-test to confirm the associations. The results were as follows 1. 28 items of fatigue subjective symptoms exept two item. feel thirsty and feel ill wore directly associated with low back pain. 2. The percentage of fatigue complaint were significantly higher in LBP group than control. 3. Of the 30 items of fatigue subjective symptoms, the highest percentage was accounted for legs feel heavy eye strain feel stiffness in the neck or the shoulders followed by feel like lying whole body feels tired feel a pain in the low back feel drowsy and in the order of sequence. 4. The average weighted score for the first group of fatigue items(dullness and sleepiness was the largest among three groups and was followed by the second group(difficulty in concentration) and the third group (bodily projection of fatigue) in the order of sequence suggesting the heavier mental and shift work stress of the female workers.

The study was purposed to know the status of health management in small-scale-industries which have less than 50 employees. A total of 330 small-scale-industries were surveyed by nurses and industrial-hygienists who were affiliated with industrial health care agency from January 1993 to December, 199-4. The contents of survey include status of work environment. occupational accident and its disease availability, protective evice, health education and settlements. The results were as follows. 1. The number of industrial accidents(death. injury arid occup. disease) in 1994 was 83 which was reduced from that of the. 1993 which was 126. 2. As a result of the measurement of work cnvironment the execssive ratio of permitted criteria was reduced to 20.6% in 1994 from 264% in 1993, and the improvement ratio of work environment was increased to 39.5% hi 1994 from 29.7% in 1993. 3. The contents of health education at work place were as follows: general disease(25.4%). work environment(20.2%). protective device(16.7%), disease prevension( 14.2%). occupational disease(85%), and health promotion(8.3%). 4. In terms of industrial safty and prevention of occupational disease, only 10.6% was satisfactory or excellent, and the 39.4% was poor, inadequate or required reexamination.

The purpose of this study is to analysis change of industrial health and safety before and after economic crisis(1997~1998). The data were obtained through mail interview with health supervisor(occupational health nurses) during February. 1999. The final sample was consisted of 127 respondents, 97 are selected in this study. The major findings were as follows; First, the percent of industries whose empl safe supervisors physicians and industry hygi decreased in number is 79.4%, 3.8%, 50.0 21.5% in each. Second, man receiving over 1.5 million wart was an aver age wage of health supervisor is 27.5% in 1997, but it decreased to 25.3% in 1991< Man receiving under 100~ 150 million won is 4&4% in 1997, but this percent decreased to 36.3% in 1990 and 13.6% cf health super-visor regularly were transformed to contingent worker in 1998. Third. especially, budgets for health and saf work place decreased to 13.8% in 1998 than 19 Fourth, industrial accident case. unto accident. case, occupational disease decreased than 1997 but mortality 1mm industrial a increased in 250%. Fifth, according to the health diagnosis retort number of case with evidence of disease increased in liver disease, increased in liver and so on, and number of case with evidence of occupational disease increased in noise induced hearing loss, pneumoconiosis, organic solvent poisoning and so on. Sixth, this survey shows that health council, health education in duty of health supervisor was contducted passive in I 998 thin 1997, and percent of hold two or more positions is 47.6% in medical insurance 10.7% in accountant's business 8.3 in secretorv. 7.1% in telephone operator awl 22.6% in etc. Seventh distrese of health supervisor after economic crisis is 30.9% in employment instability, 19.8% in hold two or more positions and deer ease of budgets. For subjugation of the trouble, the respond of active policy if government occupied most.

This study was carried out to investigate the management and support system affecting to the occupational health nursing services(OHNS) provided in group occupational health agencies (GOHA). Questionnaire was developed and distributed to 82 nurses who were working in GOHA and who agreed to participate in the survey The results were as follow: 1. OH nurses responded were mostly in the age of twenty to thirties(89%), married(73.7%) technical college graduates(88.9%), worked in hospital(85.4%) and participated more than 1 year in group occupational health services (96.3%). 2. Fifty eight point four percent of the OH nurses worked in number of workplace more than 30 to less than 60 in the OHNS form. The figure of workplaces undertaken by nurses was ranged greatly from 9 to more than 100. Number of employees who cared by nurses were mostly under 5,000 peoples in 93.3%. The types of industry was mostly manufacturing and located in the order of factory complex area, suburban, urban and others. 3. Most OH nurses(87.8%) were fully involved in the OHNS for the SSE. Their working days to visit SSE was 5 days per week(77.8%) and one day in the GOHA at 41.3%. 4. The OH documents using by nurses were found in more than 23 different types However, they were largely summarized in the types of 멬orkplace Health Management Card personal Health Counselling Card daily Health Management Report visiting List of Workplace and sick Employee List? 5. The items of laboratory test provided by GOHA were mostly achieved in the purpose of basic health examination. They were used to be the blood pressure check(98.8%). blood sugar test (98.8%), urine sugar and protein(91.4%), SOOT and SGPT(85.3% each). cholesterol (82.9%). hepa vaccine immunization(82.9%). r-GPT(8L7 hemoglobin(79.3%) and triglyceride(75.5%) 6. The OH nurses(92.7%) followed the work pattern to visit the GOHA before and after small -scale enterprises (SSE) visit by car driven by nurses in 74.3%. They were eaved by GOHA for transportation fees in certain amounts. However, nurse is the main person(75.0%) who covers up in case of traffic accident. if the GOHA has no transportation regulation for the formal workplace visit, data showed that nurses had been responsible to take charge(31.7%). 7. The personnel manager who takes in charge for nursing services was nurse in 61.7% and 41.2% worked as the final decision maker related to nursing work. The OH nurses opinions about factors affecting to the management were classified in the four areas such as Nature(Quality) of health professional Content of OHNS Delivery system of the GOHS and Others The factors were indicated highly in Authority as health professional level of perception of director on the OH and physical work condition for OHNS The things that this study suggests in the recommendation would be summarized in such as the management and supporting system working for SSE in the OHNS is necessary to reform thoroughly. The reconsidered aspects might be in the matters of number of workplaces undertaken by nurses, development of effectively practical health documents, preparation for guideline ol the laboratory test in the workpleces, establishment of convenient and encouraging support system and cooperation between other health professionals with respect and skill.

This study was designed to determine anxiety factors and levels of anxiety of foreign industrial workers One hundred and seventy five workers were researched who were working in Gum Working Complex. Ansan City and Sungnam City Working Complex asking 60 questionnaires from Feb. 25, 1996 to April 12, 1996. The results were as follows 1. The 30.3% of foreign workers were from Nepal, 17.7% from Bangladesh 10.9% from Srilanka. 14.9% from Philippines, 1.1% from Ghana. 80% of foreign workers were male. 77.7% were single and most of then were in the age from 25 to 34. 37.1% o foreign workers had not lived in Korea less than 12 months, 58.8% graduated fro college, 33.7% from highschool, and more than half lived in a dormitory. 2. On the anxiety level related to subject workers general characteristics, the workers level from Nepal recorded the highest point 2.70 statistically showing a significant difference(P 0.0003). On the physical anxiety level, the workers from Nepal recorded a significantly low point comparing with Jamaica, Burma. Vietnam and Nigeria(P0.01). 3. Emotional anxiety level marked the highest on the workers living as a tenant comparing with the workers in dormitory. 4. On anxiety factors, the emotional anxiety recoded the highest, the social anxiety and the somatic anxiety. 5. On the relation between the anxiety factor, the somatic anxiety factor had a relation with emotional, environmental, and occupational factors and on the other relation between the anxiety factor and emotional factor had a relation with environmental, social, cultural factors. Moreover, the environmental factor had a relation with the cultural factor, social factor had a relation with the cultural factor, and cultural factor was related to the occupational factor.