Health behaviour of miners

Wysokiński, Mariusz; Fidecki, Wiesław; Bernat-Kotowska, Sylwia; Ślusarz, Robert

doi:10.13075/mp.5893.00082

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“…In other studies, no statistically significant relationships were found between the place of residence and the moderate level of job satisfaction [14]. In our study, nurses working in the country reached the highest level of job satisfaction, while those working in medium-sized cities reached the lowest level of job satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 84%

Job satisfaction among family nurses in Poland: A questionnaire-based study.

Kalinowska

Marcinowicz

2019

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Background: A family nurse, next to a family doctor and midwife, plays a crucial role in the primary health care system, and a patient has the right to choose them; they are the first medical professional the patient meets when there is any problem. The present study aimed to define the level of job satisfaction among Polish family nurses and to establish its standards. Attempts were made to assess whether job satisfaction depends on the job location, form of employment, family structure, or financial situation. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among Polish family nurses who were professionally active in 2018. As the first step, the questionnaires were sent to all (45) County Chambers of Nurses and Midwives in Poland. The data were collected and analyzed using a standardized questionnaire “The Satisfaction With Job Scale” by A.M. Zalewska and our survey questionnaire. Results: Of 220 family nurses surveyed, 219 (99.5%) were females and one (0.5%) was male. The mean age of the study participants was 50.13 years, with a standard deviation of 8.36. The majority of nurses had secondary education (37.6%), with a qualification course (96.2%), without specialization (61%), with a nursing job seniority of 30–39 years (44.6%), and residing in a medium-sized city (43.7%). In the study group, the mean score of job satisfaction was 22.23 (on a scale of 35), and median (Me) score was 23. Conclusion: The results of the study revealed that Polish family nurses are moderately satisfied with their job. A higher level of job satisfaction was reported among family nurses with longer job seniority, who are working in the country, are owners or co-owners of a primary health care unit, live in a complete family, are single, and who declared that they could afford what they wanted to buy and possessed savings. Moreover, the level of job satisfaction was highest among the nurses who recommended other nurses to work in a primary health care unit, participated in scientific conferences, and subscribed to nursing care journals. Key words: family nurses, job satisfaction, nursing in Poland

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Job satisfaction among family nurses in Poland: A questionnaire-based study.

Kalinowska

Marcinowicz

2019

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“…There are many studies on miners' disease and back pain, such as those by Zejda et al [2,8,19,20], but none of them consider it in the context of an occupational disease. According to the current list of occupational diseases contained in the Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland of 25 November 2013, item 1367 [4], we do not include any diseases related to the spine as occupational diseases, and it is dysfunctions within the spine that prevent miners from continuing their professional work to the greatest extent.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Physical effort, high temperature, humidity, high dustiness, and lower oxygen content in the mine atmosphere, often with the presence of harmful gases, are just a few of the problems that miners struggle with. The accompanying stress should not be forgotten, so the health condition of miners should be monitored in a special way [2]. The consequences of negligence are occupational diseases of miners, such as pneumoconiosis, permanent hearing loss, vibration syndrome, chronic bronchitis, and others [3].…”

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The Frequency of Diseases within the Locomotor System Compared to Occupational Diseases of Salt Miners

Pietrzak¹,

Domaszewska²

2022

Sustainability

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The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of locomotor system diseases in salt miners compared with that of other occupational diseases. Methods: An analysis of diseases reported by salt miners working at different mining levels was carried out. All miners were asked about back pain in the past five years. The Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Scale-Polish Version (OLBPDS-PL) and Neck Disability Index-Polish questionnaire Version (NDI-PL) were used to measure the functional disability of the lumbar and cervical spine. In contrast, the severity of low back pain was assessed using a 10 mm visual analog scale (VAS). In all, 62 miners were included in the study. Results: The most common diseases of salt miners are locomotor diseases involving the lumbar spine. The study showed a significant correlation between the occurrence of pain changes in the thoracic spine and the extraction level (p < 0.05). The extraction level also correlates with the reported level of pain in the thoracic spine (p < 0.05). The incidence of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes depended mainly on the age and weight of the subjects (p < 0.05). Hearing loss depended on the age of respondents and years of work in the mine (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Due to significant problems of miners in the field of the motor system, the list of occupational diseases in Poland, specified in the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 30 June 2009 on occupational diseases (Journal of Laws No. 105, item 869) should be extended for example, to diseases affecting the spine. As there are no articles on the health of salt miners, further research should focus on complementing this knowledge to guide interventions to reduce the risk of chronic and occupational diseases. Extensive research is needed, including ergonomic measurements, to verify our results for the Polish salt mining industry.

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“…Safety aspects in work (notably role conflict, role ambiguity, quantitative job insecurity, or managerial issues) and of coping (namely avoidance style or changes in the work situation) contribute to compliance (or not) with safety procedures (Wysokiński et al 2015;Zhang et al 2016;Jacobs and Pienaar 2017) and the potential for injury from accidents. Migrant miners returning home to Botswana from South Africa have missed surveillance, resulting in not being diagnosed or compensated for occupational disease (Steen et al 1997).…”

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Mining is bad for health: a voyage of discovery

Stewart

2019

Environ Geochem Health

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Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various personal perspectives: that of the ordinary man (much of life depends on mined elements in the house, car and phone); as a member of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (environmental contamination and degradation leads to ill health in nearby communities); as a public health doctor (mining health is affected by many factors, usually acting in a mix, ranging from individual inheritancegenetic makeup, sex, age; personal choices-diet, lifestyle; living conditions-employment, war; social support-family, local community; environmental conditions-education, work; to national and international constraints-trade, economy, natural world); as a volunteer (mining health costs are not restricted to miners or industry but borne by everyone who partakes of mining benefits-all of us); and as a lay preacher (the current global economy concentrates on profit at the expense of the health of miners). Partnership working by academics with communities, government and industry should develop evidencebased solutions. Employment, health, economic stability and environmental protection need not be mutually exclusive. We all need to act.

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Health behaviour of miners

Cited by 6 publications

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Job satisfaction among family nurses in Poland: A questionnaire-based study.

Job satisfaction among family nurses in Poland: A questionnaire-based study.

The Frequency of Diseases within the Locomotor System Compared to Occupational Diseases of Salt Miners

Mining is bad for health: a voyage of discovery

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