Mattoo G M, Rauf A, Zutshi M L
Br J Ind Med. 1986 Oct;43(10):698-701. doi: 10.1136/oem.43.10.698.
In a health and morbidity screening among 500 carpet weaving children and 450 children attending school selected at random in a rural field practice area the age group studied was from 6 to 16. Each child was thoroughly interviewed and examined for any deviation from health. The height and weight were taken by standard procedures and clinical assessment of morbidity and nutritional status was also observed. The results showed that the heights and weights of schoolchildren were greater than those of the carpet weaving children in both boys and girls. Clinically, 56% of the schoolchildren as against 41.6% of carpet weaving children had no nutritional defects. The main complaints in the carpet weaving children were in order of descent, headache, blurring of vision, backache, abdominal pain, limb pains, and respiratory tract infection. Both groups of children were later followed up for six months from September 1981 to March 1982. The incidence of subjective and objective deviations from health were higher in the carpet weaving than in the schoolchildren and the first ten major complaints in the carpet weaving children were respiratory tract infection, headache, backache, pain in the abdomen, injuries (major and minor), joint pains, diarrhoea and dysentery, fever of unknown origin, dermatitis, and chilblains.
在农村实地实践地区随机挑选的500名地毯编织儿童和450名在校儿童中进行了健康与发病情况筛查，研究的年龄组为6至16岁。对每个儿童进行了全面访谈，并检查是否有健康偏差。通过标准程序测量身高和体重，并观察发病情况和营养状况的临床评估。结果显示，无论是男孩还是女孩，在校儿童的身高和体重都高于地毯编织儿童。临床上，56%的在校儿童没有营养缺陷，而地毯编织儿童的这一比例为41.6%。地毯编织儿童的主要主诉依次为头痛、视力模糊、背痛、腹痛、肢体疼痛和呼吸道感染。两组儿童随后从1981年9月至1982年3月进行了为期六个月的随访。地毯编织儿童健康方面主观和客观偏差的发生率高于在校儿童，地毯编织儿童的前十项主要主诉为呼吸道感染、头痛、背痛、腹痛、损伤（轻重伤）、关节疼痛、腹泻和痢疾、不明原因发热、皮炎和冻疮。
