Risk of hand dermatitis among hairdressers versus office workers
Autor(en): | Uter, W Pfahlberg, A Gefeller, O Schwanitz, HJ |
Stichwörter: | APPRENTICES; ATOPY; COHORT; ECZEMA; epidemiology; IRRITANT CONTACT-DERMATITIS; logistic regression analysis; occupational skin disease; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; wet work | Erscheinungsdatum: | 1999 | Herausgeber: | SCAND J WORK ENV HEALTH | Journal: | SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF WORK ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH | Volumen: | 25 | Ausgabe: | 5 | Startseite: | 450 | Seitenende: | 456 | Zusammenfassung: | Objectives The risk of irritant skin damage associated with hairdressing was estimated with the individual occupational exposure and other relevant factors having been taken into consideration. Methods A cohort of 2352 hairdressing and 111 office apprentices was prospectively followed for the duration of their vocational training (3 years), 3 examinations having been made and 3 years of recruitment having been used [1992 (hairdressers only), 1993, 1994] in Lj vocational training schools in northwest Germany. The information of the final follow-up examination war used for the analysis. Results A multifactorial analysis taking several (constitutional) risk factors, which were unevenly distributed between the 2 groups, into account revealed a significantly increased risk for hairdressers when compared with office workers (odds ratio approximately 4.0) with a marked decline in the most recently recruited (1994) apprentice group. Other significant factors increasing the dermatitis risk were (i) low ambient absolute humidity, (ii) young age, and (iii) a certain higher range of ``atopy score''. If the individual profile of occupational exposure among hairdressers was also considered, unprotected wet work of more than 2 hours per day was found to be a significant risk factor. Conclusions Good skin protection, as operationalized in the present study, can diminish, but not eliminate, the risk of occupational irritant hand dermatitis among hairdressers. |
ISSN: | 03553140 | DOI: | 10.5271/sjweh.459 |
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