Understanding attitudes toward hygiene mask use in Japanese daily life by using a repeated cross-sectional survey.
CONCLUSIONS: Men's attitudes in 2009 were different from those in 2012 and 2015. However, women's major attitudes were consistent in all 3 years. For both sexes, the most commonly reported problem was humidity in all 3 years. It is expected that more comfortable masks for daily use will result from improving humidity characteristics.
PMID: 30373980 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Work - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Morishima M, Kishida K Tags: Work Source Type: research
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