Work stress, fatigue and biological monitoring for journalist

• Main Authors: Chun-Wei Chang, 張鈞微
• Other Authors: I-Fang Mao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29366467808699810104

碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 職業安全衛生學系碩士班 === 104 === According to the statistics of Council of Labor Affair, Taiwan, 2013, there are 5400 people working as journalist in Taiwan. The four characteristics of this industry are time pressure, social responsibility, press ethics consideration, conflicts with the competition. Under long-term work pressure and heavy work loading, physical fatigue or burnout become a big and growing problem. Therefore, this study explore the relationship between the work of the stress and fatigue situation, which results will be taken as the basis evaluating for working condition of journalists. The study subjects were divided into two major groups, print media and television media employees. A total of 409 people was included, 345 in television media employees and 64 in print media. The questionnaires include socio-demographic characteristic, work-related stress, sleep qulity and subjective fatigue symptoms were conduted. Physiological measurements include heart rate, blood pressure, flicker test, grasp and grip force. Urinary 17-hydroxycorticoids (17-OHCS) concentration and salivary cortisol concentration were also measured. The results showed that 60.6% were men; more than 78.0% of reporters working hour over 10 hours every day, the proportion of “smoking”and “drinking” were also higher the other groups. Major occupational work related diseases were “musculoskeletal disorders”, “eye strain”, the prevalence of the both up to 55%. Environmental risk exposure were “natural disasters”, “extreme weather”, “social crises violence”, and “major man-made disasters”, the exposure of up to 30% to 80%. Regarding work-related stress of the different groups, results showed that aspects of job control, mental load, stress feelings and other work-related nature were significant (p＜0.05), and reporters> editorials> others. As for the pressure of social support, the three staff were the same. Regarding sleep quality, 29.8% of journalists had poor quality of sleep, specialized reporters in the poor quality of sleep more than 35.8% was the highest. The results for fatigue indicated that the prevalence of “eyes fatigue”, “yawn” and “sleepy” in our study were 77.0%, 67.7%, and 67.0%, respectively. The results showed the fatigue of the journalists were belonged mental-work-type fatigue. Biochemistry fatigue measurements showed that, grasp and grip force more than 95.8% was sub-standard; the urinary 17-OHCS/creatinine and salivary cortisol were 5.6±2.6 mg/g cr. and 10.5 ng/mL. The results showed that the major occupational risk factors of the reports were long time work and bad working environment; meanwhile. The results of this study will be used as the basis for journalists’s healthy at work.