Baig Nabeel Naeem, Aleem Sajid Atif
Department of Research and Evaluation, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP), Karachi.
Department of Research, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak. 2016 Apr;26(4):320-2.
To determine the frequency of different occupational hazards among dental surgeons in Karachi.
Cross-sectional survey.
Amulticenter study conducted at Ameen Diabetic and Dental Hospital, Dental OPD, Karachi Medical and Dental College, and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi, from February to March 2014.
Dentists, practicing in different areas of Karachi, were given a self-administered questionnaire. It comprised of a form containing information about the socio-demographic profile of dentists and questionnaires regarding occupational hazards experienced in practice.
Atotal of 130 dentists, involved in clinical practice, were randomly selected. There were 45 (35%) males and 85 (65%) females. The average age was 39 ±5.76 years. Out of 130 dentists, 93.8% (122/130) had occupational hazard during practice. Cervical back pain was observed in 81.96% dentists followed by knee / elbow joint pain in 53.27%, eye infection in 44.615%, impaired hearing in 40.98%, psychological stress in 41.80% and material allergy was 12.29%.
Various spinal and joint pains, eye infections, impaired hearing, stress and material allergy represented occupational hazard to 93.8% of the surveyed dentists.
确定卡拉奇牙科医生中不同职业危害的发生率。
横断面调查。
2014年2月至3月在阿明糖尿病与牙科医院、卡拉奇医学与牙科学院牙科门诊部以及卡拉奇阿巴西·谢赫德医院进行的多中心研究。
向在卡拉奇不同地区执业的牙医发放一份自填式问卷。问卷包括一份包含牙医社会人口学资料的表格以及关于执业中所经历职业危害的问卷。
共随机选取了130名从事临床工作的牙医。其中男性45名（35%），女性85名（65%）。平均年龄为39±5.76岁。在130名牙医中，93.8%（122/130）在执业过程中存在职业危害。81.96%的牙医有颈背痛，其次是53.27%的牙医有膝/肘关节痛，44.615%的牙医有眼部感染，40.98%的牙医有听力受损，41.80%的牙医有心理压力，12.29%的牙医有材料过敏。
各种脊柱和关节疼痛、眼部感染、听力受损、压力和材料过敏是93.8%接受调查牙医的职业危害。
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