Risk Factors of Occupational Injuries and Related Disabilities Among Auto Mechanics in the Informal Sector of Kumasi, Ghana

Abstract

A277the Sample Czar nonprofit-focused panel or All Global online consumer panel. Patients were U.S., aged ≥ 18, with no prior biologic experience. Only patients that responded consistently with non-contradictory responses were included in this analysis. 170 patients responded consistently to preference questions and 169 patients responded consistently to openness questions. In order to compare physician responses about their patient population vs. patient responses, population samples for both were derived using bootstrapping statistical techniques (responses were randomly over sampled 10,000 times with replacement).A stratified-analysis of responses of Minority patients vs White/Undetermined patients was conducted. Student t-tests were used to calculate p-values. Only results displaying p-values were significant. Results: OPENNESS: Physicians significantly overestimated patients openness to biologics in general, (85.46% vs 74.61% respectively, p< .0001) but, underestimated patients openness to Intravenous (IV) MOA (55.97% vs. 63.96% respectively). Minority patients (N= 42) showed greater openness to biologics (92.90%), to IV MOA (83.32%), and SQ MOA (90.52%) compared to White/ Undetermined patients (68.44%, 57.45%, 59.77% respectively N= 127). PREFERENCE: Overall physicians significantly underestimated patients' preference to IV MOA (22.07% vs 24.35% respectively, p< .0001) and SQ MOA (48.84% vs 54.69 respectively p< .0001). Minority patients (N= 27) had greater preference for IV MOA (59.23%), and a lower preference to SQ MOA (40.77%) compared to White/Undetermined (39.25%, 57.24% respectively N= 143). ConClusions: The results from this study suggest differences between minority and white/undetermined patients' openness and preferences to biologics and biologic MOA highlighting the importance of cultural factors in shared decision making.

Prevalence and associated factors of occupational injuries in an industrial city in Ghana

“…Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were employed to identify the factors that were independently associated with the occurrence of occupational injuries. All covariates that were significantly associated with occupational injury in the univariate analysis and those that were insignificant but considered important or potentially confounding based on previous studies [ 25 , 29 , 37 , 38 , 41 , 43 ] were incorporated in the final multivariate logistic regression model. We controlled for covariates that were insignificant but deemed important in the backward stepwise regression model using a p-value of 0.1.…”

“…Though other studies in Ghana [16,[27][28][29][30] have estimated injury prevalence among workers in specific populations, this is the first study to estimate the prevalence of occupational injuries which involve a wide range of workers from different industries. Hence, the findings are quite representative of the different occupational groups.…”

“…Data collection was done using a structured questionnaire running on a smartphone with the aid of Kobo Collect. The questionnaire was entirely developed by the investigators through a literature review [10,17,29,[37][38][39][40][41] and has not been validated. Data was collected on sociodemographic variables including age, sex, educational level, monthly salary, type of engagement, health and safety practices such as usage of PPE, frequency of PPE use, access to health and safety training and occurrence of occupational injuries with emphasis on the types, numbers and mechanisms of the injuries.…”

“…Apart from the few studies mentioned, little is known about the prevalence and factors associated with occupational injuries among workers in a major industrial city with over five hundred companies and the largest Port in Ghana. These studies only focused on estimating injury prevalence among specific working populations in Ghana [7,13,16,[26][27][28][29][30]. The current study cuts across different industries unlike the others [22,[24][25][26] that focused on a specific industry.…”

An Empirical Inquiry into Maintenance Work of Auto-Mechanics and its Relative Bearing on Road Traffic Accidents - A Developing Country Case, Ghana

“…The auto mechanic plays a key role in the transport and automobile industry in every economy [73]. The success or failure of the work of the auto mechanic directly affects the transport business thereby detracting from the benefits of the transport industry to the economy [74]. It is an undeniable fact that it is difficult to produce a perpetual motion machine of the first kind and as such the road vehicle is not a perpetual motion machine [75,76].…”