Aungudornpukdee Piraya, Vichit-Vadakan Nuntavarn, Taneepanichskul Surasak
College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
J Med Assoc Thai. 2010 Mar;93(3):285-92.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factors that affect short-term memory dysfunction among children, 6 to 13 years of age, residing near the Petrochemical Industrial Estate, Map Ta Phut sub-district, Rayong province. A population-based cross-sectional study was employed for collecting data on neurobehavioral effects using the Digit Span Test. The present study found one-third of 2,158 children presented with short-term memory dysfunction. It was found an inverse association between short-term memory dysfunction with 2 out of 25 communities; Islam (adjusted OR 0.382) and Taladmabtaput (adjusted OR 0.297). In addition, short-term memory dysfunction was also found an inverse association with distance from residential areas to the industrial park (adjusted OR 0.871). It was also found that an association between short-term memory dysfunction and length of living period in study areas was not clear The finding on short-term memory dysfunction indicated that children with short-term memory dysfunction were affected by the distance from residential areas to source of pollution and community.
本研究的目的是调查影响罗勇府玛塔卜特县石化工业区附近6至13岁儿童短期记忆功能障碍的因素。采用基于人群的横断面研究，通过数字广度测试收集神经行为效应数据。本研究发现，在2158名儿童中，三分之一存在短期记忆功能障碍。研究发现，在25个社区中的2个社区，短期记忆功能障碍与某些因素呈负相关；伊斯兰教社区（调整后的比值比为0.382）和塔拉达玛布塔普特社区（调整后的比值比为0.297）。此外，短期记忆功能障碍还与居住区到工业园区的距离呈负相关（调整后的比值比为0.871）。研究还发现，短期记忆功能障碍与在研究区域居住的时长之间的关联并不明确。关于短期记忆功能障碍的研究结果表明，患有短期记忆功能障碍的儿童受到居住区到污染源和社区距离的影响。
