| Summary: | 碩士 === 長榮大學 === 職業安全與衛生學系碩士在職專班 === 102 === According to the demographic ageing of labor force participation in Taiwan, we imported massive foreign laborers to Taiwan for nursing or orther labor force work since October, 1989. However, there was no research to assess the relationships between living habits,basic Information,physical condition of foreign labors with intestinal parasite detection in a single stool examination. Besides, the Enterobius vermicularis, a ubiquitous neglected parasites disease was still unclear in foreign laborers. This was a cross-sectional study. The purposes were of two folds: (1) to understand the relationships between living habits, basic Information, physical condition of foreign labors with the intestinal parasite detection in a single stool examination; (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of single examination to diagnose Enterobiasis by scotch tape perianal swab technique in non-constant time. The survey covered southeast asian laborers from four countries. The data were collected from 868 valid questionnaires and valid stool samples. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square analyses and binary logistic regression analyses were applied to the data.Factors such as sex , diarrhea, eating raw-cooked beef, eating raw-cooked mutton, no washing hands before a meal achieved statistically significant with the intestinal parasite detection in a single stool examination in the Chi-square analyses. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were applied to model the intestinal parasite detection in a single stool examination with sex, eating raw-cooked beef, eating raw-cooked mutton, no washing hands before a meal. However, only the sex and no washing hands before a meal achieved statistically significant. 391 valid perianal scratch swab samples were also collected. The results indicated scotch tape perianal swab technique in non-constant time could increase the detection rate of Enterobius vermicularis.The competent authority should consider scotch tape perianal swab technique as an extra test in foreign laborers' health examinations to increase the sensitivity of intestinal parasites detection by the current method. Physician should pay more attention to the foreign laborers suffering from long-term diarrhea. Occupational health personnel should educate the foreign laborers to get into the habit of washing hands before a meal in their daily practice. The employers should arrange the examination of scotch-tape anal swab technique for caretakers periodically.
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