Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia. RESULT: The prevalence of occupational injury was 32.6% 95% CI (27.8–37.4). Male workers [AOR: 1.775, 95% CI (1.108–2.844)], uned...

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Autores principales: Gebremeskel, Teferi Gebru, Yimer, Tesfaye
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4436-4
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description OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia. RESULT: The prevalence of occupational injury was 32.6% 95% CI (27.8–37.4). Male workers [AOR: 1.775, 95% CI (1.108–2.844)], uneducated [AOR: 3.327, 95% CI (1.262–8.771)], training [AOR: 2.053, 95% CI (1.004–4.195)] and Uses of PPE [AOR: 2.076, 95% CI (1.253–3.439)]. In focus group discussions negligence of the workers and lack of awareness were factors significantly associated with Occupational injury. The occupational injury was high among construction workers. Sex, Educational status, Safety training, Personal protective equipment were statically significantly associated. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4436-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-66834562019-08-09 Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018 Gebremeskel, Teferi Gebru Yimer, Tesfaye BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia. RESULT: The prevalence of occupational injury was 32.6% 95% CI (27.8–37.4). Male workers [AOR: 1.775, 95% CI (1.108–2.844)], uneducated [AOR: 3.327, 95% CI (1.262–8.771)], training [AOR: 2.053, 95% CI (1.004–4.195)] and Uses of PPE [AOR: 2.076, 95% CI (1.253–3.439)]. In focus group discussions negligence of the workers and lack of awareness were factors significantly associated with Occupational injury. The occupational injury was high among construction workers. Sex, Educational status, Safety training, Personal protective equipment were statically significantly associated. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4436-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6683456/ /pubmed/31382990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4436-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018
title_full Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018
title_fullStr Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018
title_short Prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in Dessie town, Northeast Ethiopia; 2018
title_sort prevalence of occupational injury and associated factors among building construction workers in dessie town, northeast ethiopia; 2018
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4436-4
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