Evaluation of Depression Prevalence in Workers in Noisy Environment

噪音作業員工之憂鬱症發盛行率評估

吳宗穎(Chung-Yin Wu)

《中華職業醫學雜誌》 17卷4期 (2010/10) Pp. 261-265

https://doi.org/10.30027/CJOM.201010.0004

摘要

本研究目的是探討在噪音環境下工作對於情緒之影響，過去的一些研究發現噪音不僅會造成聽力損失，也會引起情緒緊張、血壓升高、及失眠等症狀。對於長時間處於噪音工作場所的員工，職場上的噪音對於身體情緒的影響是值得探究的。此研究乃針對台灣北部某間歸類於噪音作業（工作環境噪音大於85dB）之石化工廠的232位員工，以台灣人憂鬱症量表來做分析。本研究於2010年1月針對該工廠之232位員工發出台灣人憂鬱症量表之問卷，回收問卷共138份、有效問卷137份。分析結果發現其中得分大於等於19分以上之可能患有憂鬱症者佔有9%；而得分小於等於8分之情緒穩定者佔有58%。此研究之結果明顯高於另一於2005年於台灣社區所作之憂鬱症比率3.7%，顯示出長期在噪音環境下工作的人，其精神心理狀態有較高的比率呈現不穩定狀態，這也是職場工作安全所必須重視的。

並列摘要

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect to emotion for the workers working in noisy environment. Many studies revealed that noise not only produce hearing impairment, but also it can induce the symptoms of unstable emotion, elevated blood pressure and insomnia. For that long-time working in the noisy place, it is necessary to study the effect of noisy to emotion. This study is to survey the 232 workers working in a noisy environment of a petrochemical factory with Taiwanese Depression scale and made an analysis. A total of 232 participants were recruited to accept the questionnaire evaluation. The results revealed that there was 9 percent (12 study case) workers with TQD (Taiwanese Depression scale Questionnaire) score higher than 19, which represented highly suspected with depression condition. The results is predominantly higher than the community survey in Taiwan population score≦8 (3.7%).

並列關鍵字

noisy factory ； depression