Title: The Mental health and occupational characteristic of Horse Stable Hand workers in Korea

Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Kyung-Woo Kim, Sang-Gil Lee, Gyu-Seok HwangAbstractThe horse stable hand workers are one of the most important occupations in horse-racing industry. However, the suicide problem of the horse stable hand workers in Korea has raised the necessity of new study on how these workers can be experienced mental health problems such as occupational stress and depression in organizational situation. So this study investigated the occupational stress and depression level of the horse stable hand workers and identified the structural relationship in the horse-racing industry through the detail interview. Total 207 horse stable hand workers participated in this study and occupational stress and depression level were surveyed using Korea Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) for Korean version. The results of this study showed that the occupational stress level of horse stable hand workers was higher than the median of Korean. The significant difference in occupational stress among the detail job grade was also identified. In addition, 34% of the horse stable hand workers showed high risk of depression, and job demand, organizational system, and inappropriate compensation as the sub-factors of occupational stress were showed to mainly affect depression. Although there are some limitations according to the field survey, this study also has signi...
Source: Safety and Health at Work - Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research