A Study on Development of a Newly Devised Questionnaire for Measuring Fatigue and It's Application

本研究旨在探讨一种新的过度疲劳测量问卷及其在卫生管理中的应用。在新设计的问卷中，包括1）10个关于主观慢性疲劳症状的问题，回答[是或否]，2）一个线性量表，范围从[0]表示不疲劳到[10]表示非常强烈的疲劳，3）每月或每周在医疗机构治疗的疾病和发病率，4）最近一个月的假期，5）过去7天内每天的工作时间，6）姓名，出生日期，工作地点和职业，已确认，并与以往研究中的其他问卷进行了比较，使用新问卷对1,400名蓝领和白色白领工人进行了现场调查。在本次调查中，在有病组和无病组中，第1项和第2项疲劳评分均为[0]分的工人分别占6.7%和6.9%，第1项和第2项疲劳评分均为[7]分及以上的工人分别占1.3%和1.6%。随着过劳时间的增加和主观疲劳症状的增多，过劳者的比例明显增高。结果表明，第1项主观疲劳症状数与第2项疲劳评分之间存在显著相关性，提示第1项和第2项的结合可能是测量慢性疲劳的有效方法。工作和工作岗位。持续性压力大、健康实践水平低的工人占总调查对象的8.5%。新设计的调查表和HPI可能在职业卫生和预防医学中作为一种初级筛查方法发挥重要作用。

This study tested a new questionnaire for measuring overfatigue and it's application on health administration.In the newly devised questionnaire, the items consisting of 1) 10 questions concerned with subjective chronic fatigue symptoms with [yes or no] answers, 2) a linear scale ranging from [0] as no fatigue to [10] as very strong fatigue, 3) treatment of sickness and incidence at medical institutions per month or week, 4) holidays for most recent 1 month, 5) working hours for each day during the past 7 days, and 6) name, birth date, workplace and occupation, are confirmed, and compared with the other questionnaires in many previous studies.Using the new questionnaire, a field survey was performed for ca.1,400 blue and white collar workers. In this survey, in the groups with and without sickness, workers without fatigue defined as [0] score in both the 1st and 2nd item were 6.7% and 6.9% respectively, with overfatigue defined as [7] or over in both the 1st and 2nd item were 1.3%wt and 1.6% respectively. The ratio of the workers with overfatigue was significantly higher with increased overwork hours and subjective fatigue symptoms. Significant correlation between the number of subjective fatigue symptoms in the 1st item and the fatigue score in the 2nd item was found. This suggests that the combination of the 1st and 2nd item might to effective in measuring chronic fatigue.Moreover, using the health practice index (HPI) an other survey on ca.1,000 office workers and drivers was performed and analyzed by sex, age groups, work and work positions. The ratio of the workers with consistent strong stress and low level of health practice was 8.5% in the total subjects. The newly devised questionnaire and HPI may play an important role as a primary screening method in occupational health and preventive medicine.