| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 食品科學系 === 105 === Abstract
Those issues that concern pressure of work and overwork have gradually caught people’s attention in recent years, and subsequently made the public alert to the decent working environment and reasonable work hours. It has become prevalent that the medical personnel in Taiwan work overtime and overwork, and quite a few of them have suffered sudden memory loss, got ill and even died suddenly. Therefore, medical personnel are, at this stage, the high-risk group of the employed subject to illnesses due to overwork; currently, overwork has been an important safety issue within the labor force. This study, using a questionnaire, aims to understand the personnel’s awareness and expectation of selenium-containing antioxidant nutrition in terms of its prevention and mitigation of overwork, and, furthermore, to discover from the recent researches whether the efficacy of such nutrition lives up to their expectations. Hence, the survey results may be for the future reference of taking selenium-containing antioxidant nutrition as a nutritional supplement to improve health.
For the medical personnel in southern Taiwan, regarding their awareness of taking selenium-containing antioxidant nutrition due to overwork to improve health, the demographic statistics revealed the following, representing the highest percentage respectively : sex-females (70.90%), age-aged 30 to 39 (36.57%), education- bachelor degree (65.22%), occupation-nurse (45.37%), workplace-Tainan (59.85%), medical institution level-medical center (41.94%), employment- less than 5 years (24.93%) income- 30,000 to 50,000 monthly (46.42%), marital status- married (with kids)(47.61%), average work days a week-5 days (66.87%), average work hours per day, 8-10 hours (56.42%). Regarding the cognition and assessment of overwork, in the section of cognition, the survey showed that the respondents who “understand” the definition and connotation of the term overwork, representing the highest percentage by 63.28%; when asked of the symptom of overwork, the majority (84.33%) responded “fatigue”; the reason of overwork, the majority (68.21%) responded “heavy workload”.
In the section of assessment of overwork, the majority gave the response of “agree” (37.78%-64.33%). The majority (42.69%-52.24%) agree that overwork causes illness. Regarding the awareness of overwork-induced illnesses, the survey also showed that the respondents who “agree” overwork causes the formation and accumulation of free radicals in the body, representing the highest percentage by 67.01%, followed by those who “agree” this formed and accumulated free radicals cause cancers by 69.25%, and those “know” selenium is the necessary bodily trace element by 65.07%. Also, the survey showed that respondents who received news from the internet, compared to any other information source, representing the highest percentage by 40%. Regarding recommendation, the survey showed almost 70% of them would recommend selenium-containing antioxidant nutrition to their families. Asked of the possibility of future consumption of selenium-containing antioxidant nutrition, 72% responded positively.
As for the phenomenon and symptom of overwork, sex and anxiety indicated a positive correlation (p<0.05). The ratio of anxiety among females was higher than that among males. It also showed the correlation between age and lower immunity (p<0.05); the ratio of lower immunity among personnel aged 40-49 was higher than that among any other age groups. Education correlated significantly with fatigue (p<0.05); the ratio of the personnel who held the highest education and claimed to be a victim of fatigue was higher than that of any other educational level. Occupation correlated significantly with reduced immunity and anxiety (p<0.05); the ratio of pharmacists who had immunity reduced was higher than that of any other medical personnel; besides, dietitians were more anxious than any other medical personnel. Medical institution level also correlated significantly with reduced immunity and anxiety (p<0.05). In the medical center, the ratio of the medical personnel who had their immunity reduced was higher than that in any other medical institutions, and so was the ratio of their anxiety in medical center.
Keywords: Medical personnel, Selenium, Antioxidant nutrition, Fatigue, Awareness
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