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

本研究测试了一种新的过度疲劳测量问卷及其在健康管理中的应用。新设计了调查问卷,项目包括1)10个问题关心主观慢性疲劳症状(是或否)答案,2)线性范围从[0]一样没有疲劳[10]很强的疲劳,3)治疗疾病和发病率在医疗机构每月或每周,4)最近1个月的假期,5)每天的工作时间在过去的7天,6)的名字,出生日期,工作场所和职业,得到证实,并与之前许多研究中的其他问卷进行了比较。使用新的问卷，对大约1400名蓝领和白领进行了实地调查。本次调查中，在有病组和无病组中，在第一项和第二项中，无疲劳定义为[7]分的工人分别占6.7%和6.9%，在第一项和第二项中，过度疲劳定义为[7]分或以上的工人分别占1.3%和1.6%。过度疲劳的比例随超时工作时间和主观疲劳症状的增加而增加。第一项主观疲劳症状数与第二项疲劳评分呈显著相关。这表明第一项和第二项的结合可能有效地测量慢性疲劳。此外，利用健康实践指数（HPI）对约1,000名办公室工作人员和司机进行了另一项调查，并按性别、年龄组、工作和工作职位进行了分析。持续的高压力和低水平的卫生实践工作者占总被试的8.5%。新设计的问卷和HPI可以作为职业卫生和预防医学的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.