Occupational stress and psychological health impact on hypertension of miners in noisy environment in Wulumuqi, China: a case-control study

BMC Public Health

Huan Yan¹  Jiwen Liu²  Yaoqin Lu³  Jiandong Yang⁴ 

[1] Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, College of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;Xinjiang Engineering Technology Research Center for Green Processing of Nature Product Center, Xinjiang Autonomous Academy of Instrumental Analysis, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, Xinjiang Medical University, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;Department of Science and Education, Wulumuqi Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Wulumuqi Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, China;

关键词: Occupational stress;    Psychological health;    Hypertension;    Miners;    Noisy environment;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-020-09760-9

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundHypertension 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.MethodsA 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.ResultsAccording to the result of the multivariate analysis, psychological health was hazard to hypertension (t = 5.080, P<0.001) and occupational stress was not a direct risk factor for hypertension (t = 1.760, P = 0.080). The model was statistically significant (χ2 = 20.4, P<0.01).ConclusionsFor miners working in the noisy environment, psychological status was a direct risk factor to hypertension, while occupational stress was an indirect factor.

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