Risks of cardiovascular diseases evolvement and occupational stress

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10.21668/health.risk/2017.1.12.eng
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Z.F. Gimaeva1, L.K. Karimova2, A.B. Bakirov2, V.A. Kaptsov3, D.Kh. Kalimullina1

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1 Bashkir State Medical University, 3 Lenina Str., Ufa 450000 Russia
2 Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology, 94 Stepana Kuvykina Str., Ufa, 450106, Russian Federation
3 All-Russian Research Institute of Railway Hygiene of Rospotrebnadzor, 1 Pakgauznoe Shosse Str., Bldg. 1, Moscow, 125438, Russian Faderation

Abstract: 

Our aim was to study how significant psychosocial factors are in occupational stress and cardiovascular diseases evolvement in workers employed at petrochemical production; we also intended to work out a set of preventive measures.

Our hygienic and social-psychological research enabled us to detect factors causing stress evolvement in workers employed at petrochemical production. These factors included chemical impact, noise, unfavorable microclimate, labor hardness and labor intensity. High level of risk for their own lives and responsibility for safety of others, as well as work under time deficiency conditions with increased responsibility for the final results, were the most significant psychosocial factors for workers. In the course of questioning we detected that 74 % machine operators, 63 % tool men working with controllers and automatic devices, and 57 % repairmen mentioned having stress at work. Here 38 % workers gave a subjective estimation of their professional activity as having apparent "stress nature". The questioning revealed that 48 % workers with various occupations had increased parameters as per anxiety scale (HADS); 23 % workers had increased parameters as per depressions scale (HADS). Primary hypertension was the most widely spread nosologic form among chronic non-infectious diseases; it was found in 46.1 % operators and in 45.2 % repairmen dealing with processing stations repair. 30.1 % tool men working with controllers and automatic devices had average occupational causation of primary hypertension by production factors. We detected direct relation between hyperlipidemia and age and working period.

We created foundation for preventive measures and worked out a program aimed at increasing resistance to stress at corporate and individual level. It will provide significant social effect and later on economic one. To overcome social stress we need to create safe working conditions at workplaces and to increase labor motivation based on career development possibilities.

Keywords: 
workers employed at petrochemical production, machine operators, occupational stress, cardiovascular diseases, risk factors, resistance to stress, prevention
Gimaeva Z.F., Karimova L.K., Bakirov A.B., Kaptsov V.A., Kalimullina D.Kh. Risks of cardiovascular diseases evolvement and occupational stress. Health Risk Analysis, 2017, no. 1, pp. 106–115. DOI: 10.21668/health.risk/2017.1.12.eng
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