碩士 / 台北醫學院 / 公共衛生學研究所 / 87 / Health status and working environment of veterinarians have been disregarded in Taiwan. Thus, 1,317 veterinarians in animal hospitals and clinics were surveyed by mailed self-administered questionnaires with follow-up of non-respondents between December 1998 and April 1999. The overall response rate was 30.5% (402/1,317) and the effective response rate was 29.6% (390/1,317). The average age of respondents was 37.3 years old, and the major practitioners were male (90%).
The eye symptoms of respondents were eye itching (48.9%) , eye drying (42.1%), and sight weakness (38.8%). Ear symptoms were tinnitus (24.1%), dizziness (2.9%), and loss of clarity in hearing (18.5%). Respiratory symptoms were stuffing nose/nasal mucus/sneezing (86.6%), cough with phlegm (73.7%), and hack (52.6%). Allergic rhinitis (20.8%) was the major respiratory disease, which were diagnosed by medical doctors.
The predominant cutaneous symptoms of respondents were skin itching (59.7%), skin eruptions (44.1%), and skin redness (36.4%). Allergic contact dermatitis (8.4%) and irritant dermatitis (5.8%) caused most cases of skin diseases. Hands were the most commonly affected parts of skin.
36.6% of respondents suffered digestive symptoms/diseases, and diarrhea (20.7%) was the most frequent one. 64.8% of respondent suffered musculoskeletal sores, mostly on lumbar, neck, and shoulder. 59.5% of respondents considered that they had long work time (70.7 hr/wk) compared to 46.8 hr/wk, the average work time of employees in Taiwan.
The incident rate of animal attack was 2.1/person/month, and hand injuries (97.8%) were most common. The needlestick injury rate was 6.3 sticks/person/year, compare to 1.2-2.8 sticks/person/year of nurses.
Animal attack, needlestick, and radiation were considered to be the more frequent risk factors by respondents with less work experience. Respondents with higher education status, less work experience, or younger age exhibited higher frequency of utilizing X-ray, ultrasonic waves, antineoplastic drugs, anesthetic gas, formaldehyde, and developer when compared with workers with lower education status, more work experience, or older age. The most commonly zoonotic diseases which respondents have been diagnosed were cat scratch fever, ringworm, and leptospirosis. However, ringworm and toxoplasmosis were the most frequently reported zoonotic infections among our respondents.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/087TMC00058001 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Lo Chia Hui, 羅佳慧 |
| Contributors | Chen Ruey Yu, 陳 叡 瑜 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 158 |
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