recognizing patients at a higher risk of developing chronic low back pain (lbp) is important in industrial medicine. this study aimed to assess the power and quality of general health questionnaire (ghq) for prediction of the odds of chronicity of acute lbp. this study was conducted on industrial workers. all subjects with acute lbp who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled. demographic char...

This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the Thai version of the Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire (T-ERIQ). The English version of the 23-item ERIQ was translated and back-translated. Content validity was examined by five experts and face validity was examined by twelve key informants before being tested for construct validity with 828 workers from six garment factories. Pre...

Self-efficacy is an important psychosocial factor that has been reported in many studies to be a mediator between health, behavior, and the environment. However, a valid and reliable measure of self-efficacy in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients has not yet been developed in the Thai language. The aims of this study were to first translate the Cardiac SelfEfficacy Questionnaire (CSEQ) into ...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...

OBJECTIVES Job stress is one of the factors that increase the likelihood of turnover. Intent to leave work is one of the most accurate predictors of turnover. This cross-sectional study was created to evaluate the intent of nurses working at hospitals to continue working and to determine the relationship between job stress and intent to stay at work. METHODS The subjects were 514 female hospi...

The purpose of a cross-sectional study was to investigate factors influencing the quality of life among Thai workers in textile dyeing factories. Samples included 205 Thai workers from five textile dyeing factories located in the suburban area of Bangkok in Thailand. Data were collected with a self-administered questionnaire. Scales of the questionnaire had reliability coefficients ranging from...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability and validity of the Thai version of disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument for patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) as well as their response to botulinum toxin treatment. MATERIAL AND METHOD A Thai version of HFS-30 has been developed with the permission of the author. Thirty patients with HFS were asked to complete this Thai HFS-3...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and risk factors causing low back pain in Thai nurses working in a public hospital. Material and Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 265 Thai Hospital nurses between July and August 2008. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect the data onsite. Risk factors including personal factors, working factors, job stress, health behavior, ...

Objective: To examine the prevalence of mental health disorder and its related factors among Thai nurses. Material and Method: This was cross-sectional descriptive study of 390 female nurses. They were asked to complete the questionnaire which covered personal history, working conditions, job stress and general health. Multiple logistic regression was used to estimate the odds ratio (OR) for me...