- Title
- Predisposing factors influencing occupational injury among frontline building construction workers in Ghana
- Creator
- Amissah, John; Badu, Eric; Agyei-Baffour, Peter; Nakua, Emmanuel Kweku; Mensah, Isaac
- Relation
- BMC Research Notes Vol. 12, no. 728
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4744-8
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Objective: This study aims to examine the predisposing factors influencing occupational injuries among frontline construction workers in Ghana. A cross-sectional survey was carried out with 634 frontline construction workers in Kumasi metropolis of Ghana using a structured questionnaire. The study was conducted from December 2016 to June 2017 using a household-based approach. The respondents were selected through a two-stage sampling approach. A multivariate logistics regression model was employed to examine the association between risk factors and injury. Data was analyzed employing descriptive and inferential statistics with STATA version 14. Results: The study found an injury prevalence of 57.91% among the workers. Open Wounds (37.29%) and fractures (6.78%) were the common and least injuries recorded respectively. The proximal factors (age, sex of worker, income) and distal factors (e.g. work structure, trade specialization, working hours, job/task location, and monthly off days) were risk factors for occupational injuries among frontline construction workers. The study recommends that policymakers and occupational health experts should incorporate the proximal and distal factors in the design of injury prevention as well as management strategies.
- Subject
- occupational injury; Kumasi; Ghana; prevalence; frontline construction workers; SDG 8; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1455590
- Identifier
- uon:45101
- Identifier
- ISSN:1756-0500
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons.org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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