Document Type : Original Article
Authors
- . Ehsanollah Habibi
- . Shiva Soury
- . Hassan Rajabi Vardanjani
- . Behnam Khodarahmi
- . Habibollah Dehghan
- . Mohsen Hosseini 1
- . Hamid Esmaeli 2
- . Abolfazl Khademi 3
1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences,
2 General Practitioner, Emergency Medicine and Disaster Management Center, Isfahan,
3 Aerospace Medicine Research Center, School of Aerospace and Subaquatic Medicine, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Context: Fatigue is a factor that can have negative effects on family life, social relationship
and work. Work schedule is one of the affective factors on personnel’s fatigue in different
jobs. In this study, the work schedule and its effect on rescue personnel in Isfahan are
explored. Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between
work schedules and fatigue among rescue personnel. Settings and Design: This study
is periodical and has been conducted on 72 employees of rescue personnel in Isfahan.
Materials and Methods: Random sampling was done and the primary data that was collected
through fatigue assessment questionnaire after being conducted as a pilot study on 10%
of samples were collected to confirm the validity of this study. Finally, the data was given
to SPSS11.5 software and were analyzed by descriptive statistics and linear digression.
Results: The results showed that from the statistical point of view some parts of work schedules
like work hours satisfaction, resting time and work order on total fatigue are effective in linear
and inverse way but the item “predictibility of work conditions” does not have a meaningful
relationship with total fatigue. Furthermore, the results showed that there is a meaningful and
inverse relationship with work hours, resting time and work order with mental fatigue and also
the work schedule has a meaningful, linear and inverse relation with mental fatigue and total
fatigue. Conclusions: By increasing the satisfaction of working hours, increasing resting time
and also with an increase of work order the total fatigue of rescue personnel will decrease.
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