de Souza Evanice Avelino, Albuquerque João Paulo da Silva, Alves Felipe Rocha, Ferreira Carlos Antônio Dias
Educação Física, Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
Rev Bras Med Trab. 2023 Apr 18;21(1):e2023809. doi: 10.47626/1679-4435-2023-809. eCollection 2023 Jan-Mar.
The strict demands of the military environment, associated with the increase in violence, as well as the frequent use of body armor, can further aggravate health problems.
To investigate the perception of police officers of the Countryside Specialized Police Battalion in relation to comfort, fatigue, and lower back pain, resulting from the use of body armor.
This was a cross-sectional study conducted with 260 male military police officers (34.62 ± 5.83 years old) belonging to the ostensive rural police battalion in the state of Ceará, Brazil. The questionnaire related to comfort, fatigue, and lower back pain was used to identify the perception of pain from the use of body armor, with staggered responses, and the results were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 software.
Regarding the use of body armor, 41.5% of participants perceived it to be little comfortable in general; furthermore, 45 and 47.5% of military police officers considered it little comfortable in relation to weight and use during operational activities, respectively. With regard to body measurements, 48.5% reported being little comfortable, and 70% perceived that the body armor is adjustable to the body. At the end of the work shift, 37.3% complained of lower back pain, and 45.8% felt moderate fatigue. Moreover, 70.1% felt pain in the lower back after the work shift.
Military police officers reported lower back pain at the end and after the work shift due to use of body armor, as well as little comfort of the protective equipment and moderate fatigue at the end of the work shift.
军事环境的严格要求，加上暴力事件的增加以及防弹衣的频繁使用，可能会进一步加剧健康问题。
调查农村特种警察营的警察对使用防弹衣所带来的舒适度、疲劳感和下背部疼痛的看法。
这是一项横断面研究，对巴西塞阿拉州公开的农村警察营的260名男性军警（34.62±5.83岁）进行了调查。使用与舒适度、疲劳感和下背部疼痛相关的问卷，通过交错回答来确定使用防弹衣后的疼痛感受，并使用SPSS 21.0软件对结果进行分析。
关于防弹衣的使用，41.5%的参与者总体上认为不太舒适；此外，分别有45%和47.5%的军警认为在重量和行动期间的使用方面不太舒适。关于身体尺寸，48.5%的人报告不太舒适，70%的人认为防弹衣可调节。在工作班次结束时，37.3%的人抱怨下背部疼痛，45.8%的人感到中度疲劳。此外，70.1%的人在工作班次结束后感到下背部疼痛。
军警报告称，由于使用防弹衣，在工作班次结束时和结束后出现下背部疼痛，防护装备不太舒适，且在工作班次结束时感到中度疲劳。
