AGE & CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS IN GARMENT WORKERS

累积性创伤障碍（CTD）构成了一个重要的职业 健康问题通常被认为是多因素病因。 研究工作已经衡量了特定的人体工程学组成部分的工作， 以确定CTD的主要工作相关风险因素。 虽然年龄 也被认为是在 在CTD发病率中的作用，这种关系很少受到关注， 除了将年龄作为一个潜在的混杂变量。 的 年龄的增长可能会对 人机工程学因素和CTD之间的关系也是未知的。 的 年龄作为一个危险因素的作用特别令人关切， 美国劳动力年龄的增长。 因此，本研究将探讨 年龄与CTD患病率之间关系 人口与不同程度的人体工程学的压力。 这项SERCA研究将在马里兰州的服装工人身上进行 行业 将邀请两个工厂的生产工人（566名工人） 预计将有450人参加。 的年龄中位数 工人年龄从40岁以上到66岁以上不等。 ctd相关 将通过问卷调查评估症状和诊断。 将通过直接观察来分析每个工人的人体工程学因素 使用最近描述的技术，修改为包括较低的 四肢 将评估年龄与这些因素之间的相互作用 通过多元逻辑回归技术，控制其他已知的 危险因素 另一个目标将是评估 现有的标准生产数据和个别生产数据， - 人体工程学暴露的集合的重复分量的测量。 预计这项工作将为今后的纵向研究奠定基础。

Cumulative trauma disorders (CTD) constitute a significant occupational health problem generally agreed to be of multifactorial etiology. Research efforts have measured specific ergonomic components of jobs in order to identify major workrelated risk factors for CTD. Although age has been included among the individual risk factors also thought to play a role in CTD incidence, this relationship has received little attention, except in the treatment of age as a potential confounding variable. The potential interactive effect that increasing age might have on the relationship between ergonomic factors and CTD is also not known. The role of age as a risk factor is of particular concern in view of the increasing age of the U.S. work force. This study will therefore examine the association between age and CTD prevalence in an industrial population with varying levels of ergonomic stresses. This SERCA study will be performed on workers in a Maryland-based apparel industry. Production workers of two plants (566 workers) will be invited to participate; 450 are expected to take part. The median age of the workers is over 40 years old, ranging to over 66 years. CTD-related symptoms as well as diagnoses will be evaluated by questionnaire. Ergonomic factors will be analyzed for each worker by direct observation using a recently described technique, modified to include the lower extremities. Interaction between age and these factors will be assessed by multiple logistic regression techniques, controlling for other known risk factors. An additional goal will be the assessment of the use of existing standard production data and individual production data as a measure of the repetition component of the set of ergonomic exposures. This work is expected to form the basis for a future longitudinal study.