Aukin óþægindi frá efri útlimum meðal kvenna í fiskvinnslu eftir tilkomu flæðilína

• Main Authors: Hulda Ólafsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Rafnsson
• Other Authors: Administration of occupational safety and health, Bíldshœfða 16, 112 Reykjavík, Iceland. [e-mail].
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Læknafélag Íslands, Læknafélag Reykjavíkur 2008
• Subjects: Atvinnusjúkdómar; Konur; Stoðkerfi (líffærafræði); Food-Processing Industry; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Occupational Diseases; Iceland; Female; Kvenna; Smella
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/32454

Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/Open Objectives: An earlier study of workers in fish-fillet plants in Iceland showed higher prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms as compared to a random sample of the Icelandic population. Since that study a new manufacturing process, the flow-line, has been introduced. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether this new work situation changed the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms among the workers of the fish-fillet plants. Material and methods: The same standardised Nordic Questionnaire was used in both surveys. Results: The monotony and the repetitiveness of the work increased with the new technique. The results showed that women had higher prevalence of symptoms of the upper limbs when working at the flow-line than before. The Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio for symptoms of elbows, fingers and wrists during the last seven days prior to the study was 2.1 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.0-4.4), 1.9 (95% CI 1.1-3.2) and 1.7 (95% CI 1.0-2.7). The odds ratio for knees and ankles was less than one. Conclusions: The higher prevalence of symptoms of the upper limbs seems to be causally related to the increase of monotonous and repetitive work in the fish industry. Tilgangur: Fyrri rannsóknir á algengi óþæginda frá hreyfi- og stoðkerfi sýndu að fiskvinnslufólk hefur tíðari óþægindi frá hreyfi- og stoðkerfi en gerðist í samanburðarhópnum sem var úrtak íslensku þjóðarinnar. Eftir rannsóknina 1987 hófust tæknilegar breytingar í fiskvinnsluhúsum með tilkomu flæðilína. Megintilgangur þessarar rannsóknar er að kanna hvort ný tækni hafi breytt algengi óþæginda meðal fiskvinnslufólks. Efniviður og aðferðir: Staðlaður norrænn spurningalisti var notaður í báðum tilvikum. Niðurstöður: Einhæfni og síendurteknar hreyfingar hafa aukist með tilkomu flæðilína. Algengi óþæginda er hærra meðal kvenna sem vinna við flæðilínur en þeirra sem vinna í fiskvinnslu án flæðilína. Hlutfallstala (odds ratio, OR) óþæginda var reiknuð með aðferðum ...