Department of Community Medicine, National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt.
Department of Community Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
East Mediterr Health J. 2019 Dec 29;25(12):878-886. doi: 10.26719/emhj.19.056.
Driving buses exposes the drivers to many stressors that can increase their cardiovascular risk factors.
The objective of this study was to measure the prevalence of workplace stress and its association with cardiovascular risk factors among bus drivers in Egypt.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on 234 bus drivers in Cairo, Egypt. Data were collected over a period of 6 months from August 2016 to January 2017. For all drivers, blood pressure, body weight and height and random blood sugar were measured. Professional driving duration/age ratio was calculated. Comparison between cardiovascular risk factors and workplace stress score was made. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated using logistic regression models.
A high prevalence of workplace stress (83.3%) was observed among bus drivers. Moreover, a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, particularly tobacco smoking (65.0%), physical inactivity (93.6%) and hypertension (33.3%), was noted. After adjustment for age and other confounding factors, the risk factors associated with workplace stress were overweight/obesity and hypertension.
There is a positive association between workplace stress and some cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension and overweight/obesity, among bus drivers in Egypt.
驾驶公共汽车使司机面临许多压力源，这些压力源可能会增加他们的心血管危险因素。
本研究的目的是测量埃及公共汽车司机工作场所压力的患病率及其与心血管危险因素的相关性。
在埃及开罗进行了一项横断面研究，共纳入 234 名公共汽车司机。数据于 2016 年 8 月至 2017 年 1 月期间收集了 6 个月。对所有司机测量血压、体重和身高以及随机血糖。计算专业驾驶时长/年龄比。比较心血管危险因素与工作场所压力评分之间的差异。使用逻辑回归模型计算未调整和调整后的比值比及其 95%置信区间。
研究发现，公共汽车司机中存在较高的工作场所压力（83.3%）。此外，还发现了较高的心血管危险因素患病率，特别是吸烟（65.0%）、缺乏身体活动（93.6%）和高血压（33.3%）。在校正年龄和其他混杂因素后，与工作场所压力相关的危险因素是超重/肥胖和高血压。
在埃及，公共汽车司机的工作场所压力与一些心血管危险因素之间存在正相关，例如高血压和超重/肥胖。
